ARCHIVED: Completed project: Podcasting initiatives
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Primary UITS contact: Martin J. Wagner, Enterprise Web Technical Services
Completed: August 1, 2011
Description:
- Develop podcast services for Indiana University, including:
- Podcast tool in Oncourse
- IU Podcast Portal at http://podcast.iu.edu/
- iTunes U at http://itunes.iu.edu
- Partner in the Opencast Matterhorn build project (July 2009 - July 2010), an enterprise open source podcasting system for higher education
- Participate in the OpenCast community
Outcome: Podcast syndication, storage, and delivery services for IU; encoding, storage, and syndication to multiple content distribution channels
Milestones and status:
- Podcast producer pilot complete
- Matterhorn investigation complete
- Research running Matterhorn on Intelligent Infrastructure Linux, working with Opencast community
- Developing Matterhorn Client using Epiphan Lecture Recorder
- Apple announced discontinuation of Xserve
- Fall course capture using Podcast Producer, Oncourse, and iTunes U in progress
- Classroom Capture Status Page created at http://www.indiana.edu/~podcast/ccstatus.pl
- Classroom client development complete for Epiphan Systems Lecture Recorder
- WebTech services testing Matterhorn 1.0
- Opencast Matterhorn now a 1.0 release
- New classroom client development started on Epiphan Systems Lecture Recorder
- IU on iTunes U mobile edition available at http://itunes.iu.edu
- IU grant commitment to Opencast Matterhorn complete
- Pilot plans for fall semester underway
- iTunes U private site archiving process design underway with collaboration from Oncourse team
- Opencast Matterhorn now a 0.8 release
- Implementation underway for summer and fall semesters for Course Capture
- iTunes U storage planning underway
- Migrating media and RSS file storage off of Mac OS X servers onto Intelligent Infrastructure
- Planning underway for summer and fall semesters for Course Capture
- Opencast Matterhorn now a 0.5 release
- Podcast team assigned release management for Opencast Matterhorn
- Spring course capture underway for Course Capture
- Podcast team and IT Professional Services and Support upgraded Mac OS X Server from 10.5 to 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Podcast team upgraded classroom captures agents from 10.5 to 10.6 Snow Leopard
- UITS Learning Management Systems working on web services for Course Capture
- IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning and IUB Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers working for faculty for Course Capture
- Planning underway for next phase of Course Capture project
- Faculty Administration tool under development for Course Capture
- Opencast Matterhorn project awarded funding from Mellon and Hewlett foundations; watch video of the announcement on YouTube.
- Oncourse team successfully added additional functionality to the Podcast tool. This integrates Podcast Producer with Oncourse.
- Fall Podcast Course Capture project is underway.
- Staff from Web Technical Services will travel to Zurich for the next Opencast Matterhorn meeting.
- Oncourse Team working on additional features to existing Podcast Tool
- Podcast Team working with Oncourse Team on developing a web service for Podcast Tool
- Podcast Team working with Classroom Technology and Local Support Provider Services on Podcast Producer Pilot for fall Semester
- Opencast Matterhorn development began July 1st.
- UITS Podcast team members Martin J. Wagner and Manjit Trehan are developing distributions services for Project Matterhorn.
- Staff from Web Technical Services attended the Matterhorn Leadership Meeting in Berkeley, CA.
- Enterprise Web Technical Services, in collaboration with Classroom Technology Services and Local Support Provider (LSP) Services, will be moving forward with the Classroom Podcast Capture Project (PcP).
- Classroom Podcast Capture Project Proposal (named Podcast Producer Project or PcP) approved February 18, 2009
- IU debuts in iTunes U top 20 downloads after going public
- http://itunes.iu.edu/ points to the IU public iTunes U space as of December 23, 2008.
- IU on iTunes U publicly available in the Apple iTunes Store as of December 23, 2008
- iTunes U redesign in progress, October 1, 2008
- Staff from Web Technical Services attended the Opencast Deep Dive October 16-17, 2008.
- IU Podcast Portal was updated with the new PodPress feature on the main page: http://podcast.iu.edu/.
- Podcast Team is researching classroom capture solutions.
- In June, members from Web Technical Services and Course Management Systems (now Learning Management Systems) were involved with OpenCast planning activities at UC Berkeley.
- Oncourse podcast tool live
- iTunes U integration with Oncourse in production March 13, 2008
- iTunes U (see the ARCHIVED: iTunes U pilot project page)
- IU Podcast Portal Registration System under development, available spring 2008; allows existing podcasts to be searchable in the IU Podcast Portal
- Proof of concept underway for Podcast Producer, a complete, end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing high-quality podcasts
- IU Podcast Portal officially launched February 4, 2008
- IU in conversations with University of California - Berkeley about OpenCast, a Sakai-integrated open source classroom podcast capture system
- Faculty Podcast Initiative open for proposals February 25, 2008; deadline for proposals March 24, 2008
- 51 individual podcasts and 559 episodes in the IU Podcast Portal as of February 22, 2008
Benefits:
- The Oncourse podcast tool allows instructors to upload podcasts and distribute them to students enrolled in their courses.
- The agreement with Apple provides IU with 500GB of storage on iTunes U, available for course and university podcasts.
- The podcast portal provides the ability to browse and search public IU podcasts available for subscription and download.
Project team:
- Martin J. Wagner, project manager, Podcast Portal, iTunes U, Course Capture, Opencast Matterhorn
- Manjit Trehan, developer, Podcast Portal, iTunes U, Course Capture, Opencast Matterhorn
- David Poindexter, developer, Podcast Portal, iTunes U, Course Capture
- Kevin Trehan, developer, Podcast Portal, Course Capture
- Sumit Lonkar, developer, Podcast Portal, Course Capture
Project partners:
- UITS Enterprise Web Technical Services (Podcast Portal, iTunes U, Course Capture, Opencast)
- UITS Communications (Podcast Portal, iTunes U)
- UITS Learning Management Systems (iTunes U, Course Capture)
- University Communication (Podcast Portal, iTunes U)
- Office of Creative Services (Podcast Portal, iTunes U)
- Classroom Technology Services (Course Capture)
- IT Training - Amy Neymeyr (Podcast Portal, iTunes U)
- Local Support Provider (LSP) Services - Mark Kerr (Course Capture)
- IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning - Randy Newbrough (Course Capture)
- IUB Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers - Kathryn Propst (Course Capture)
Governance:
- Podcast Implementation Team: Outline relationships between all internal and external groups involved in the project; ensure procurement of required approvals and direction at appropriate stages
- Podcast Marketing Group: Describe proper flow of information to all stakeholders
- Podcast Strategy: Ensure appropriate review of issues encountered
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