Welcome to the Week 7 of Web 2.0: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools.
Welcome to week 7 of our 8-week Web 2.0 discovery experience. At this point you have no doubt added several new words to your vocabulary. No, not words of frustration from these exercises, Web 2.0 words! This week’s words are “Podcasting” and “Online Hosted Video”. Podcasting is a method of publishing audio (and sometimes video) files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a RSS feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost.
Think of your favorite NPR show… What do you need to listen to the show? You need a radio to hear the show and you need to know the radio station that broadcasts the show. By the same token, to listen to a podcast you need a podcatcher (radio) and you need to know the podcast’s RSS feed (radio station). The most popular podcatcher is iTunes, but there are alternatives such as Juice or Odeo. Both iTunes and Juice require that you download a client on your computer. Odeo is a Web-based podcatcher which could come in handy if you are unable to download and install software on your computer.
This is an online video, inserted into our blog, featuring Bart Ragon, Assistant Director for Library Technology Services & Development at University of Virginia Medical School Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. He was one of the developers of the original course on Web 2.0.
You can find the video and podcasts he is talking about at:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library-History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/wdc-lib/historical
Reading Exercise:
Podium – “What is podcasting?”
http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/whatispodcasting/index.html
Discovery Exercise:
Podcasting
1. Browse the podcasting directory site Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com). Don’t worry about subscribing at this point. Explore the categories and locate the Health section. Take note of the topics available.
2. Explore the podcast site below for Health & Science podcasts.
- NPR Podcast Directory
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
3. Create a Odeo account
4. Within Odeo search for any topic that interest you (you might try health or technology)
5. Click on one of the results that you find interesting.
6. Click on “Subscribe”.
7. Click on the “My Audio” tab. You will see your section along with the latest “show”. Future shows will be delivered here as they are made.
Online Hosted Video
Topic Introduction:
YouTube is the largest player in the Web 2.0 video field. You can do more than watch 1970s TV commercials, or Local Commercials. In fact you can subscribe to channels developed to provide health information.
Look around YouTube for videos you find interesting and remember it is free, anyone can post a video so viewer beware. If you look hard enough you might find someone you know in a video on YouTube.
Reading Exercise:
7 things you should know about…YouTube
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7018.pdf
Discovery Exercise:
1. Search YouTube and find an example of a video that might be used in the workplace.
2. Find a video you like and want to share on your blog.
Blog Exercise
Write a blog entry discussing how you felt about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library? If so what and why?
Advanced: (optional)
Try using the YouTube embed code to post the video into the body of your blog, this will require you to switch to the edit HTML code tab in your blogger account. Here are some more detailed instructions:
WordPress: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/
Blogger:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80767
Tags: online_hosted_video, podcast, podcasting, video
