On Friday, Oct. 28, the Center for Scholarly Technology at USC hosted a CoP meeting on podcasting for faculty and staff interested in the subject. If you're interested in the podcast, you can get the feed at URL:

Community of Practice podcast feed.

It seems that some private high schools have threatened to suspend students who keep private journals on public social software sites like Myspace.com.

From a recent press release:

Princeton to Offer Free "Vodcasts" of Lectures on Web

Princeton University (NJ) has added "vodcasts" - shared videos
that can be watched using Apple Inc.'s iTunes - to the podcasts,
or downloadable sound files, it already offers on its Web-based
University Channel. The service makes academic lectures and
events available to the public via the Web. Apple recently
introduced vodcasting technology in conjunction with the video-
enabled iPod as a way of sharing video files over iTunes.
Subscribers are notified when podcasts and vodcasts are available
directly on the website or for downloading onto a computer. Both
options are free of charge.

Princeton's Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
launched the University Channel this summer in an effort to grant
widespread access to academic events for a broad audience.
University Channel Executive Director Donna Liu said she first
added podcasting because, "commercial media doesn't put out full-
length presentations" of interesting lectures and speeches, using
only short clips during news broadcasts instead. While the service
uses Apple technology, Lui said there is "not a specific relationship
between Apple and the University."

Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter lauded the move,
saying, "In a world in which everything is increasingly privatized
(Stanford has just put its lectures up on iTunes, but for a price),
sharing the wealth both nationally and internationally is very
consistent with the role Princeton aspires to play as a great
university."

Princeton's University Channel

Staff from Drexel, Bryn Mawr, and other schools present on blogs, wikis, screencasting, and gaming at a conference at Villanova. The presentation isn't bad, although I am not sure I agree with the framing of learning environments as consisting of "content, interaction, and assessment." Whenver I hear these sorts of arguments I always want to see some citations supporting this framework.

What is the essence of the wiki? It's all about collaboration, and not necessarily debate, according to Rich Seeley.

The podcast of the Emerging Pedagogies of Students using Technology (ePOST) meeting for 11/11/05 is up. As soon as we upgrade loudblog to the new version that supports .m4a files I'll convert this to an enhanced podcast.

An interesting article on Stanford's podcast space on the iTunes music store.