EduTechnorama

I’ve been reading Bob Cringely’s column ever since I discovered he was the person behind one of my favorite PBS documentaries, "Triumph of the Nerds" which is a history of personal computing. Last week he posted an article about how the later generations of our students who are beginning to perceive that there was no life prior to computers, perhaps much in the same way my generation perceives television. What will our children’s children be experiencing in their learning opportunities? 

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As mentioned in one of my comments on a previous post, some of my co-workers and I were involved in a faculty professional learning group formed to investigate the usage and employment of podcasting in higher-ed.

One of the things we came to a conclusion upon was the fact that it is EXTREMELY time-consuming to put together a good, engaging, and pedagogically sound audio presentation. Apple computer is putting together several tools to hopefully make that easier.

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/podcasts.html

Given Apple’s success in making difficult things easier for people who are intimidated by technology, hopefully this would put this in the hands of instructors who can make good use of it.