Pod Casting, Web Casting, and New Computers April 28, 2008
Posted by Vicki in continuing education.Tags: continuing education, podcasting, social networking, webcasting, YouTube
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We are in the last week of the Continuing Education for MLA on Social Networking. Last week (and I didn’t blog it then…) we studied podcasting and webcasting. Last week was also an extremely busy week for me, including getting my new laptop to replace my older desktop.
There’s an unfortunate side effect of a new computer that I forget until it happens again. Many of my setting in the browser, software programs (like my Word icon menus), audio programs, etc, disappeared and have to be reset. Some of them are, but not all.
Among other things, this affected listening to the podcasts that were assigned. I didn’t have the proper players downloaded any more, so had to stop and reinstate a few of those. Since I couldn’t start the lesson until Thursday, I didn’t finish listening to those until Friday.
The YouTube webcasting had a different set of problems. I love a YouTube piece called Interval Library.
But when I tried to add it to this blog from YouTube, YouTube kept giving me an error with connecting to WordPress. I then tried entering it through WordPress and finally was able to make it work. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
There is another video I saw recently that I wanted to add to my personal blog, which is through Blogger. I had no problems inserting that one through YouTube. I found I couldn’t edit later, though, because there’s a missing end tag that I haven’t discovered yet. If I leave the post alone, it works fine. If I try to add tags, it won’t save again.
Once again I know our library isn’t ready for using podcasting or webcasting. I appreciated their uses through the universities and hospitals for lectures, repeating programs, etc. It would also be useful for the safety videos all hospital employees have to watch.
As I’ve said before, we’re different here. There is no obvious use for the technology now. I appreciate having the knowledge and ideas, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 6 months or so something will come up that could benefit from this. If so, then I’ll look into using seriously rather than for fun right now.
