Show #12, Nov. 28, 2005: Can the iPod replace the big black binder? Podcasting for learning...

In this 20-minute podcast, Donna Papacosta talks to Kathleen Gilroy about how the Otter Group is using podcasting for learning projects. Download the show here or subscribe to the RSS feed on this page to receive the Trafcom News Podcasts automatically.

Here are the shownotes:

00:01 Intro and welcome
01:13 How the Otter Group started podcasting
02:00 Interactive aspect of the Negotiating Tip of the Week
03:33 Variety of learning services include interactivity; podcasting is newer, better way to deliver material
04:22 Benefits of podcasting: distribution; portability; easier and less costly
05:00 How they are integrating podcasting into learning; Merrill Lynch project will give people video iPods instead of big black binders
07:15 Screen resolution of iPod is good for learning
08:00 Information is searchable
14:00 Otter Group has been using RSS for years; Kathleen was inspired by the Dean campaign
15:44 Aggregators are a powerful tool
19:45 Where to send comments; outro


Links mentioned:
The Otter Group
The Path to Learning 2.0
Negotiating Tip of the Week
Innovation Tip of the Week
Podcasting for Learning White Paper
RSS Networks for Learning White Paper

Comments

[Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")]

Hi, Donna.

Terrific show. From an ergonomic perspective alone, an iPod would beat a 5-inch binder, and I'd take the cost trade-off of free iPod for having to print things myself any day.

Which reminds me, did you know that there are universities podcasting recordings of lectures? (Purdue has a huge selection of uncut, uncensored, real-life classroom experiences at http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/Index.html.)

Alex Mandossian and Paul Colligan over at the Marketing Online Live podcast (http://marketingonlinepodcast.blogspot.com/) have also talked about pre-loaded iPods as a replacement for multi-CD information products. (If I remember correctly, they've even gone so far as to suggest that people might buy several of these pre-loaded MP3 players, rather than, say, transferring the contents to a hard drive and then downloading new audios files.)

The Otter Group is definitely onto something. Thanks for the interview.

[JJ Music]

The ipod actually serves many functions not just for learning purposes. It's a form of entertainment whereby some could not live without it. To me, it's becoming more personal each day myself and my ipod.