Podcasting for Libraries
Live Webcast
October 1, 2009
11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern
1.5 hours
Registration is now open!
Webcast description:
Podcasting is like an Internet radio show, or a blog with audio. It uses the power of RSS syndication to automatically deliver new episodes to listeners. There are millions of podcasts available, covering nearly any topic imaginable. Any library can produce a podcast using free software and inexpensive hardware. If you can post to a blog and talk into a microphone, you can create a podcast. How can your library use podcasting as a tool for teaching, promotion, outreach and programming?
This session will explore:
• What a podcast is and isn't
• How RSS makes a podcast work
• Free and cheap hardware and software for podcasting
• Recording and production
• Publishing and sustaining a podcast
• How libraries can use podcasting
• Finding the right voice to reach your audience
Presenter:
Jason Puckett is the Instruction Librarian for User Education Technologies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He earned his MLIS via online distance education from Florida State University and has a BA in English from GSU. He is the co-chair for the Teaching Learning and Technology committee of ALA's Library Instruction Roundtable and a member of the LITA BIGWIG social software interest group. He produces a library podcast for GSU students and co-produces the Adventures in Library Instruction podcast for teaching librarians, which is available at http://adlibinstruction.blogspot.com/. He blogs at jasonpuckett.net.
Registration fees:
ACRL member: $50
ALA member: $75
CACUL member: Can$90 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $90
Student: $40
Group*: $295
* Webcasts take place in an interactive, online classroom environment with one user/one login. If you select the group rate, one person must register, login, and keyboard during the event. A group registration allows an institution to project the Webcast to participants in the same location.
Registration is now open!
- You will need to log in with your ALA ID & password. If you do not have an ALA ID & password, you will be asked to create one in order to register.
- Download and complete the PO registration form.
- Submit the form along with your actual PO to ALA registration (fax or mail; see form for details).
- You will not be considered registered for the course until both your PO and the registration form have been received and processed by ALA registration.
Member rates apply to personal memberships only. Want to join ACRL or ALA? Complete the online membership form, available on the ALA Web site. If you join ALA/ACRL within five days of registering, we will adjust your fee (please fax a copy of your completed registration form to ACRL at 312-280-2520).
Payment may be made by credit card or purchase order (PO) only.
If paying by PO, the PO number is required at the time of registration.
Class size is limited to 60 participants. Full refunds will be granted up to 14 days prior to the start of the seminar.