Pod and Vodcasting

Wow -- it's been a while since I made a post. Damn all this O-Week business!

I found some Triple J podcasts which were quite cool. I just did a Google search for 'podcast*' and "Triple J" -- is there some better way for searching for podcasts? (I seem to recall Technorati was a search engine for blog posts, so just wondering whether there is an equivalent for podcasts).

I'm fairly well acquainted with YouTube, so checked out some of the sites that were mentioned. Last year when I was still studying, I remember reading that many unis/tertiary institutions are using YouTube as a virtual classroom... I think we'll see much more of this as time goes on. Since YouTube does have a lot of scholarly and relevant material for students, it is a bit of a shame that this site is blocked on all public access PCs. Perhaps the library could revise this policy?

Now for embedding a video clip...



I had the same trouble as Aqua in terms of copying the whole link... I ended up copying the code by clicking and dragging across it, pasted it into Word, and then pasted it into this.

I hope you enjoy Scuba Cat, AKA Hawkeye! I already shared this clip with quite a few people...

Didn't have any problems with subscribing to podcasts/vodcasts. Just found one that looked interesting, went to Google Reader, pasted in the URL and voila!

I think this type of technology has great potential in an academic library setting. You could make very short podcasts for students on basic library skills (the library had already done this -- http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/). It's apparently quite easy and cheap to do, which is a bonus.

Cheers,
Kate