Other questions came up for me as I was working on this project. Some of those questions are: How can I steamline the recording process to make it easy for an entire staff of librarians to utilize this as a tool when needed?
What areas of information literacy are better suited for podcasting? What about creating the metadata for people who are hearing impaired. Is the itunes and feedburner metadata enough? Should someone transcribe the interviews and post them in the blog space as well? So there are other areas to cover, and I think that there are many possibilities for use of the podcast as a part of an IL program strategy.
Click here for "N the Stacks" Episode 3: More ideas. Recorded on March 28, 2006.
/ 5:05 minutesThanks for listening, Regina
4 comments:
Thanks for your comments. I agree with you about the issue of technostress. It raises these questions: Does this format add to the technostress? Is it worth adding to an IL program? What are the time considerations for the librarian producing the podcasts? Is it worth his/her time? What would make it more effective and attractive to clients?
Regina
"technofatigue" is a real issue. I noticed a few comments on the QUT/SLIS blog regarding this topic. Do you think that this is something that should be addressed as part of the information literacy curricula?
By the way, I agree with you about knowing your audience.
Your question to students of "How does one do research?" as well as in the stacks interviews represents a very agressive way of getting students to take the process of research with an expanded view. Bravo on the podcast format.
Hi Lynn,
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate your feeback.
-Regina
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