e-Clippings (Learning As Art)

Recent Podcasts from Harvard and Wesley Freyer on Innovation, Learning Orgs and IP

HBR IdeaCast 80: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?
Featured Guest: George Stalk, author of 5 Future Strategies You Need Right Now, a new book in the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series.

HBR IdeaCast 81: Disruptive Innovation
Featured Guest: Scott Anthony, author of the "Innovation Insights" blog at HarvardBusiness.org.

HBR IdeaCast 83: Learning Organizations & HBR Editor's Preview
Featured Guests: Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Amy Edmonson; Harvard Business Review editor Thomas A. Stewart.

Podcast235: Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property and Podcasting - NCCE 2008
"This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. Intellectual property law, Creative Commons licensed media, and the guidelines under which students can legally publish their ideas in a variety of multimedia formats on the OPEN WEB (accessible by anyone) are important issues for ALL teachers. Gone are the days when teachers could reasonably pass off questions about copyright issues to the district technology director: All teachers and instructors, as well as students from middle-elementary grades through college need to have an accurate and functional knowledge of intellectual property issues as they apply to legal media publishing. Fortunately, homegrown media as well as Creative Commons licensed media offer ways to go “around the mountain” of traditional copyright and intellectual property law which previously may have seemed to be an insurmountable obstacle for educators."

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I've got to create a podcast on how to podcast....got any great resources?

So I have to create a podcast (for work) that will serve as an intro for folks within my organization as they start to learn how to podcast and how to think about podcasting.

What I'm wondering is if anybody has any institutional resources/standards/policies that they can share on appropriate content/length/etc for podcasts? Any "standard operating procedures" out there? I'll even take lists of favorite resources....

"Listening for Learning" (IT Conversations)

Whew. Long day..thanks to all for the suggestions though. I mentioned that IT Conversations was one of my favorite sources for podcasts and I noticed this in my latest email from them:

"Often, we learn better listening to someone explain something than we do by reading about it. Deep knowledge comes through reading, but audio, especially when you can ask questions, is usually the best way to learn about something new. In a podcast, where the audience can't ask questions, or even offer much feedback, the job of the
interviewer is to ask those questions for the audience. Scott Lemon brought this same issue up this morning in an interview we were doing with John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. Having him on the phone to ask questions of was much more satisfying than reading the Web site or a whitepaper."

They actually have a poll up online asking the following:

Is audio an effective way for you to learn?

• Yes, I learn more from listening than reading
• Yes, it fills my empty time with something productive
• No, I’d rather read the transcript of the podcast
• No, I don’t listen to podcasts

As of 1000 EST this morning, this reponse "Yes, it fills my empty time with something productive" was in the lead by about 2 to 1 (only 16 responses).

I think though that this is a WAY too simplistic question. The question is formed as if all audio is the same. One thing that I really noticed was that  i react very differently to different formats of audio.  I tried listening to an audiobook, actually an audiobook of a book I own in paper but I figured this would  allow me to get further along in it by listening to it. Turns out not so much. I got bored quickly and found my attention wandering from what the narrator was saying.

Not so with podcasts or with audio recording of conference presentations. There I paid great attention and got a lot out of it. My thinking is that it comes down to design - the audiobook is merely a translation of the written word into the oral and it leaves me cold. There is no interaction...when I am physically holding and reading a book, I am typically underlining things and referencing other pages but I can't do that with audio, so I get bored. The other formats however from their initial designs, were meant to be 'heard'...podcasts were designed to be listened to, hence the importance of the questions mentioned up top...the interviewer or host is the surrogate for the audience. The same with conference presentations..the speakers designed them to be 'heard' by an audience and you (at least me) and can feel that.

I also learned that I love to listen to comedy bits...these keep me more awake than soda, coffee, turning the music up loud or rolling the windows down. Good to know.

So nothing earth-shaking here...guess what ....design is important...keeping in mind your audiences'  preferences is key to creating a solid experience for them.

Help Needed: Long Car Ride Ahead and I Want to Load Up on the Best Podcasts

So me and the MINI have to hit the road tomorrow for a total of somewhere between 6-8 hours (3-4 each way). I need you help...I need to pack up my little iPod with some great podcasts and figured you all would know some amazing ones.

I love this one by Ryan Freitas on IT Conversations and am interested in just about anything. So post your suggestions in the comments, I'll grab and listen to as many as I can and then see about posting some post-road-trip reviews when I get back.

Thanks for the help!

"Podcasting After ITunes" (WIRED)

WIRED has a story on podcasting and some numbers on its uptake. What I find missing in the article and what I don't think there is any real way to measure, is what the uptake of podcasting looks like inside the corporate world.

I know that Booz Allen provides numerous podcasts but I don't think that they are about to make the numbers on subscribers public - not that they're trying to hide something, there is just no compelling reason to do so. I also wonder when we look at podcast adoption rates - do these have to be MP3 files delivered via an RSS feed or iTunes to count as a podcast? What about straight right-click downloads of MP3 files?

PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE: RULES FOR THE REVOLUTION (Creative Commons)

(via Net Dimensions)

Read online or download the PDF.

CNET Video Tutorial: Podcasting 101

Link to Video.

Ever wish you could just link to those really good 2 minutes in an hour-long podcast?

.....well at least now at IT Conversations you can. Take this podcast for example "The Podcast Academy." I can give you the link to the page, the MP3 file or to an excerpt from the show. Pretty slick. It'd be nice to be able to generate this stuff from existing audio stick and be able to drop clips into courses instead of having students searching whole podcasts for one item or one point.

Berkeley Courses on Podcast

I'm always jealous of Jay Cross who is alwasys running up to the UC campus for some super-cool presentation on something that I'd love to go to but at least now I get some small bits from the home of the Golden Bears...click here for a list of Berkeley courses that are available via podcast - be sure to check the Archived Semesters button in the upper right as well (although a quick check reveals that prior to Fall 2005, almost everything is a Webcast - meaning Real media file).

I think I'll be checking out Foundations of American Cyberculture and trying to figure out why its listed as an art course..

The longest list of Podcasting Tutorials I've seen

Please, someone let me know if they know of a longer list or any great podcasting tutorials this list misses. I am particularly interested in ones that teach you how to edit your podcast (e.g. adding music).

Thanks, Mark

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