Today I published on DrThompsen.com a podcast of my lecture in COM 212, an introductory course in mass communication that I teach at West Chester University. This is the fourth semester I\u2019ve recorded my lectures as podcasts, but until now I\u2019ve kept the files in a directory on the course\u2019s home page on blackboard.wcupa.edu. By publishing my podcasts on my own website, I\u2019m able to more easily create the RSS feed needed to allow one to subscribe to the podcast series. This was something I was unable to do on Blackboard (although I understand they are working on including more podcasting features in the next version of the software).<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the feed URL of this semester\u2019s series of podcasts:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/podcasts\/COM212-S07\/COM212-Spring07_20070116_232152-0500.rss<\/a><\/p>\n That\u2019s a rather long URL, but it was the one generated by the software I\u2019m using, a great program called Profcast<\/a>. I used this program last year, and it just keeps getting better. I spoke with the developer briefly last week at MacWorld, and made a few suggestions for the next version. There still seems to be an issue with \u201cback dating\u201d podcast episodes, and there are some annoying transparent dialog boxes that I\u2019d like to be able to turn off. But in general, this software is the best solution I\u2019ve seen for easily creating and managing a podcast of lectures.<\/p>\n Now if we can just get the WCU iTunes Music Store off the ground this semester…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I published on DrThompsen.com a podcast of my lecture in COM 212, an introductory course in mass communication that I teach at West Chester University. This is the fourth semester I\u2019ve recorded my lectures as podcasts, but until now I\u2019ve kept the files in a directory on the course\u2019s home page on blackboard.wcupa.edu. By … Continue reading Publishing podcasts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,7,23],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}