I popped over to the U. of Minnesota today for a teleconference about podcasting in the classroom. Long-time readers may recall that I posted last year about the U.’s UThink blogging system that provides a free blog for every student and staff member. They’ve upgraded the system to support podcasting now and they will be tracking how the students and faculty take to it. More than 50 people showed up for this teleconference which suggests that there’s quite a bit of pent-up interest in the topic. The main portion of the teleconference is about Purdue’s campus-wide podcasting system called BoilerCast. The presenter is Michael Gay who was the main developer of the BoilerCast system.

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