A November 20th article in the Chronicle of Higher Education announced "a cooperative effort to develop free, open-source software to make it easier for professors around the world to podcast their lectures." In Jeffrey R. Young's "Colleges Collaborate on Software to Help Capture and Archive Recordings of Lectures" we learned about OpenCast, a project led by UC-Berkeley. In a nutshell, "OpenCast aims to streamline the process of recording lectures and allow course audio and PowerPoint slides to be recorded and unloaded automatically." Follow the link to the OpenCast homepage and read over "What is the OpenCast System?" You can also scroll down to see the list of participating institutions.
Here in the LTC, we've had demos of a few proprietary $olution$. We're also planning to test out Podcast Producer, a feature in Leopard that Apple describes as "a complete, end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing high-quality podcasts." OSCR has installed Leopard server.
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