New Technology on campus (ipods, multimedia)

<p>Using all boring internet Bulletin Board technology can get quite old. ;-)</p>

<p>Check out some of the things being done with multimedia by the schools. Duke has something they call the “Duke Digital Initiative”. They currently are using podcasts to iPods as a means of distributing lectures. They expect to expand it more going forward. See:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/12/ipodupdate.html[/url]”>http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/12/ipodupdate.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Boston College is distributing most of its Church in the 21st Century lectures via steaming and video files. For more on this see:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.bc.edu/church21/resources/[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/church21/resources/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Of course, no listing of this type would be complete without MITs Open Courseware initiative. For more see:</p>

<p><a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>What do others think about the use of technology in the classroom and beyond to enhance and broaden the learning experience?</p>