1 Guides

JISC Digital Media Guides - http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/site-map/
JISC Digital Media Guide to Microphone usage - http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/audio/advice/microphone-technique/
VideoAktive resources, http://www.videoaktiv.org/index.php?id=40 (in particular the Handbook on Digital Video and Audio in Education - Creating and using audio and video material for educational purposes, http://www.videoaktiv.org/index.php?id=233)
Accessibility multi-media chapter in web-design guidelines http://www.aptivate.org/webguidelines/Multimedia.html
Also, for network managers, the BMO book (for free) from here http://www.bwmo.net/. ( a great resource for network managers, aimed at developing world use.)
Pdf downloading report from Aptivate (2005) http://www.aptivate.org/Projects.PDFDownloadingGuidelines.html
Five Steps to Multimedia Recording from Berkeley, http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/
iPod in Education website, http://www.addysg.org.uk/ipodined/news.php
University of Leicester podcasting guide (wiki), http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/impala/impala-wiki/CreateAPodcast
IWMW Workshop on Podcasting, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/sessions/ramsden/
IWMW podcasts evaluating podcasting, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/podcasts/
IWMW introduction to podcasting through a collaborative learning lens, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/trieste-2005/talk-2a/
Steeple Project Podcasting Scrapbook, http://steeple.org.uk
Placing Oxford on iTunesU, http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/presentations/

2 Podcasts in education

Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes - a UK community podcasting SIG, http://podcastingforpp.pbwiki.com/
Impala Podcasting project based at Leicester - http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/impala/
Apple iTunes for Higher Education, http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/
CamTV, http://mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk
Oxford on iTunes U, http://itunes.ox.ac.uk
Open University, http://itunes.open.ac.uk
UCL, http://itunes.ucl.ac.uk
Warwick, http://itunes.warwick.ac.uk
Oxford Web Podcasting portal, http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk
Trinity Dublin, http://www.tcd.ie/podcasts/
University of Westminster student photography 2006 podcast, http://feeds.feedburner.com/londonphotocast
Warwick University podcasting, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/audio/
University of Ulster podcasts, http://www.publicaffairs.ulster.ac.uk/podcasts/
Bath University public lecture podcasts, http://www.bath.ac.uk/podcast/
Education Podcast Network (EPN), http://epnweb.org/
Podcast Directory for Educations, http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php

3 Community Projects

Steeple, http://www.steeple.org.uk
OpenCast, http://www.opencastproject.org
Steeple Podcast Portal, http://podcast.steeple.org.uk
PPP, Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes - a UK community podcasting SIG, http://podcastingforpp.pbwiki.com/
Impala Podcasting project based at Leicester - http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/impala/

4 Rights

Podcasting Legal Guide (Creative Commons), http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
Web2.0 Rights project, http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
JISC Legal Web 2.0 - Liability and Law, http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Web2/index.htm
University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service, http://www.cam.ac.uk/video/contribute/smsfaq.html
University of Cambridge consent forms, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/offices/communications/services/photoconsent/

5 Articles

Derek Morrison on Podcasts, http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog_comments.php?id=381_0_4
Podcasting briefing document, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-83/
Podcasts on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
Bradford University using podcasts instead of normal lectures, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm
University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has launched the first video podcast news service from a UK university, http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/unv/unv104.html
Examples of podcasting in North American institutions, http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1550197,00.html
Stanford to offer course material available on iTunes, http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1597970,00.html

6 Software

Audacity, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- LAME MP3 Encoder, http://lame.sourceforge.net/
iTunes, http://www.apple.com/itunes/
ProfCast (Macintosh only), http://www.profcast.com/
ePodcast Producer (Windows only), http://www.industrialaudiosoftware.com/products/epodcastproducer.html
Podium (Windows only), http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/
Apple Garageband, http://www.apple.com/software
Apple Podcast Producer for OS X server, http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/podcasts.html
REPLAY server encoding, http://www.replay.ethz.ch/

7 Recording Hardware

Fostex FR2 digital recorder, http://www.solidstatesound.co.uk/fostex_fr2-le.htm
Marantz PMD660 portable digital recorder, http://www.solidstatesound.co.uk/marantz_pmd660.htm
Portable recorders (e.g. solid state digital recorders), http://www.hhb.co.uk/hhb/uk/products/section.asp?section=Portable%20Recorders
USB microphones (e.g. Samson CO1U USB mic), http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/reviews/c01u-usb-microphone
Digital video cameras, http://reviews.cnet.com/Camcorders/2001-6500_7-0.html
Audio mixing equipment (e.g. M-Audio's NRV 10 FireWire Mixer), http://www.nextag.com/audio-mixer/search-html
iPod, www.apple.com/ipod/

8 Educational video portals

The following are a small set of video/audio web portals, useful for reviewing and for technical evaluation. The list is not trying to show all web pages that have HE video on it, but we're trying to list typical video/audio web portals, that might be interesting for gathering technical requirements for anyone considering similar work

8.1 Podcasting Portals in HE

Oxford University: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ (iTunesU launching page http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/)
Open University, http://podcast.open.ac.uk/, (iTunesU launching page http://www.open.ac.uk/itunes/)
CamTV http://mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk . Presents media across the whole University in a single web portal, aggregating from the UCS-SMS (see next entry), DSpace, YouTube, and other sources. A second instance of the mediaplayer is the sciencelive site, http://www.sciencelive.org
Cambridge UCS-SMS http://sms.cam.ac.uk/ presents media that has been processed by the UCS-SMS service on the web.
ARCA http://arca.rediris.es . Spanish national media portal, using the ARCA software developed by Carlos III University.
Leeds http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk/
http://podcast.iu.edu/Portal/
Princeton http://uc.princeton.edu/main/
MIT http://mitworld.mit.edu/ (For those familiar with the old MIT World portal: This is now a flash-based site.)

For many of these projects, there are descriptions on the http://www.opencastproject.org site.

8.2 AV Portal plugins

http://filmforge.koumbit.net/en/about for Drupal
MetaVid for mediawiki
CamTV/Mediaplayer/ScienceLive plugin for Joomla.
http://www.phpmotion.com/
http://www.ostube.de/en/ostube
http://blog.plumi.org/features/ for Plone (Zope).

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