History professor Deborah Vess asks students to download 39 films to their video-capable iPods so she doesn't have to spend class time screening the movies. Psychology professor Noland White has found a new-age answer to office hours: a podcast of the week's most asked questions.
And the 5,500-student campus has organized a group of staff and faculty to conjure up other uses for the technology. Called the iDreamers, the team bats around ideas that could turn iPods into portable yearbooks and replace campus brochures with podcasts.
"The more you free up your classroom for discussion, the more efficient you are," said Dorothy Leland, the school's president.
TESOL CALL-IS on 20 Sep 17"Description: A very useful tool to capture videos of your computer screen, webcam and audio as a shareable upload which can be downloaded for offline use and editing." I like the looks of this, and hope it stays around for a bit. The idea of adding sound directly to a screencast is appealing.