Video podcasting is not as hard or as expensive as you think

Abstract

A quick surf around the Internet reveals much in the way of video podcasts these days. The iTunes Store alone lists nearly 150 of these visual snippets with subjects that run the gamut from comedy to marketing, politics to the arts. But video podcasting in academia can seem like a leap of faith or at least suspension of better judgment. Most of us haven't aspired to be actors or movie directors, lighting technicians or audio engineers. Making an instructional or informational video is something the A/V folks do in their mega-dollar studios, is it not? Our premise is that creating a video podcast to augment or enhance curriculum or IT support efforts can be as useful and usual as authoring a web page or creating a PowerPoint presentation. As a matter of fact, video podcasting is an evolutionary progression from those two tasks specifically, presenting your material in ways that prior methods cannot accomplish as directly or succinctly.