Here’s a neat idea that one professor provided for his students. Additional lectures provided by podcasts… where one can download a professor’s lecture onto their MP3 player.
Now educating on an iPod near you
Many students walk through campus listening to their MP3 players, often with a favorite band filling their ears. But for a growing number of people, the sound may also be the voice of one of their professors.
Last term, journalism professor Al Stavitsky experimented with creating online audio files called podcasts, which he termed “Al Pods,†for his Mass Media and Society class.
Stavitsky, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, said his podcasts differed from podcasts available at some schools in that they did not reproduce class lectures. Instead, they provided new content bridging the lectures and the assigned readings, freeing Stavitsky from spending large amounts of class time talking about the readings.
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