(Many thanks to Echo360 for most of those articles and studies.) I considered focusing my dissertation on the use of commercial lecturecasting solutions, and still have some articles and resources relating to lecurecasting available on a personal, self-hosted wiki I setup with Tikiwiki awhile back. I have been using webcasting tools like Ustream for the past couple of years, and shared the presentation “ Webcasting on a Shoestring” at our Oklahoma Distance Learning Association‘s conference a year ago to document some of my lessons learned to date. (Wifi or 3G connectivity is best for this type of mobile web streaming.) All for $8 per month! Gloriously, that website auto-detects if visitors are using a mobile browser like Safari on an iPhone or iPod Touch, and will serve up compatible H.264 QuickTime video to view on the go without any syncing to iTunes required. Our week 1 lecturecast is now available on our T4T Scribe blog, and future episodes are set to auto-post there from. □ In this post, I’ll describe some of my personal history and knowledge of lecturecasting systems, and detail how I’m using my MacBook Pro laptop, free software and websites, and an $8 per month PRO account on to accomplish the aforementioned goals for T4T this term. It also needs to be cheap, since I’m self-funding this with my generous adjunct faculty salary. Since I am my own tech support for this lecturecasting process, I need to make it as easy and streamlined as possible. I’d love to be an early adopter and share my videos there! Perhaps that could help my chances of securing full-time employment as a professor with UCO down the road? I’m sure that would also depend on whether my course videos are actually GOOD! □ The University has a little content there from the September 30th Creativity Forum event, but not any course videos YET. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to, but I am going to also pursue the possibility of publishing my course videos on UCO’s iTunes U portal. I also want to make it available as an iPhone-compatible video in an updated web feed. I want to record at least one of my two repeated lectures each week, and make that video file available online for my students as a flash-based video. This semester I am teaching two sections of a 15 week course at the University of Central Oklahoma called, “ Technology 4 Teachers.” This is a required course for all UCO College of Education undergraduates which meets once per week, for two hours.
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