Podcast workshop
The Metropolitan New York Library Council Program is holding an online workshop titled Podcasts as Library Resources on Monday, February 27, 2006 (3:30PM to 5:00PM).
Description:
Podcasting is a rapidly growing form of communication and information delivery in both business and academia. The number of podcast listeners using iTunes alone grew from one million in July 2005 to six million in August 2005. This webinar will present a basic introduction to podcasts and show how they can be useful research and reference tools in libraries. Instruction will outline and share techniques for seeking out existing resource podcasts, including those distributed by RSS feeds.
Objectives:
- Learn to understand podcasting basics.
- Review the history of podcasting and assess how it is being used in libraries today.
- Identify applications for podcasting in various types of libraries.
- Set strategies to identify podcasts for reference services.
Presenter:
Kathryn Shaughnessy is an instructional services librarian at St. John's University in Queens. She has taught in a variety of institutions and libraries representing business, government, and academic organizations. She specializes in innovations in instructional technologies and in the promotion of information-literacy and information-ethics.
You can register online. Registration fee is $40 for members; $75 nonmembers.
Good to hear that it was useful. If you’ve got a map that could use audio links, then we would be happy to set it up. You’ll need to write the script and get someone to read it – that’s often the hard bit!
Posted by: Arthur mcbeth | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 22:45
Beyond criticism, we experience that blogs are the simplest way to express ones feeling about the topic being discussed. You just have to put your fingers on keys and write the first thing that comes to your mind and you can see it up, visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the very next moment.
Posted by: thomas | Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 14:59