Last Monday, October 30th, I had a fun time on a panel at UC-Irvine. The panel was called "From the Illiad to the iPod: Transitions in Media and Scholarship." It was hosted by UC-I’s HumaniTech, whose charge in a nutshell is “integrating and facilitating the use of technology with teaching and research.†more This event was co-sponsored by the UC-I Library.
The event was promoted this way: "The aural tradition of the Humanities, running the gamut from ancient classical works to present day podcasting, is only the starting point of a discussion of transformations in media, literature, and history, as they have been shaped by technologies of the time." And the other panelists were David Folkenflik, Media Coorespondent at NPR; Maria Pantelia, Classics, UCI; Annette Schlichter, Comparative Literature, UCI; Moderator: Catherine Liu, Film & Media Studies, UCI." There were probably 80-90 grads and faculty from the Humanities during the peak attendance time.
I was asked to shed some light on where podcasting came from and where it's going, as well as, what we are doing with podcasting here at the UA. My presentation was prepared as if it was part of a podcast series and shown on the room projector. Watch my presentation (in QT or iTunes) [.m4a 13:51] I focused on where we are at in the Information Age and personal broadcasting and then had audio from interviews of faculty and a student talking about podcasting in their classes. BTW, if you watch this in iTunes please be sure your have your video viewer open. A big part of my podcasts are the images that I create and sync with the audio.
