ITunes U and ITunes Podcast Repository

Over 800 universities have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half of these institutions — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley — distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store. In addition, cultural and education institutions, such as the Library of Congress, public broadcasting organizations, and state departments of education, also contribute to this growing educational content repository that includes over 350,000 free lectures, audiobooks, lesson plans, and more. iTunes U is the ideal resource for educators who want to gain insight into curriculum being taught worldwide, get access to primary resources, and find inspiration for enhancing teaching and learning with technology.

Itunes also has a general podcast area – possibly with a slightly more commercial content offering but still with a lot of free content from providers such as the ABC and Triple JJJ.

The site also includes an extensive FAQ section for users and creators of Podcasts which includes clear instructions for meta-data and recording quality.  They suggest using the GarageBand software for the creation of podcasts.

Here’s just a sample of the extraordinary resources available for both K–12 and higher education on iTunes U:

	QUEST: Science and Nature KQED		Roy’s Writing Tools Poynter Institute
	Ask a Biologist Arizona IDEAL		Professional Development Edutopia
	Teaching Mathematics Virginia Department of Education		Archival Films The Library of Congress
	Lit2Go University of South Florida		MIT OpenCourseware MIT
	Three Countries You Ought to Know About Virginia Department of Educatio		College Courses UC Berkeley

Vodcast and Podcast services

VODCAST SERVICES

Yubby:  http://www.yubby.com/

This service allows you to put together a film reel of podcasts that you have collected into a ‘Channel’ which can be grouped around a topic or theme.  The film reel of selected vodcasts can be embedded into an existing wiki or website.

Here is an example of Mark’s yubby channel.  http://www.yubby.com/i/e-learning/channel/player/8658

Meevio: http://www.mevio.com/

This service brings together commercially produced video footage from existing TV shows or from content produced by Mevio in areas of sport, music, technology, health and fitness, women, men and celebrities.  Boasts the biggest video collection network.

TED: http://www.ted.com/

Videos taken of professionals speaking on a wide range of interesting topic with a philosophy, science bent.

MediaSnackers:  http://mediasnackers.com/

Host site for youth based vodcasts and training agency based in the UK.  Some interesting stuff about using social media from a youth perspective.

Yoki’s and Babbelerize:  http://www.voki.com/   and   http://blabberize.com/

Animated characters that you can turn have speak for you. Babbelerize is any picture of an animal or object that you can use.

The Voki Site offers packages for the education sector (no login, classroom management) and also has a database of lesson plans that have been developed with the use of Vokis.

Viddler:  http://www.viddler.com/

This seems to help you to customise your videos for different online outputs (PC, mobiles, tablets) and to include features like tagging and commenting on your video.   About customizing, branding and embedding options.

PODCAST Services

See WesFryers Blogs and Wikis for teaching materials about creating podcasts using Audacity, Garageband and Podguide Generator.   His site also includes an amazing array about presentations he has made about using technology in learning (eg. Cell phones in lesson, digital storytelling etc.