Jean-Claude Bradley: The state of the practice of lecture podcasting, circa fall 2005.

Georgetown University News: A stunning array of applications of blogs in academia at Georgetown. (Link via Rob Pongsajapan.)

MTV.com: Reporting on the iTunes.com movement in higher education

Middlebury College: Overview of experiment with iPods in language learning. (Link via Brian Lamb.)

Learnerblogs.org: Free WordPress blogs for schools. (Link via James Farmer, via EdTechUK .)

PCMag.com: AOL adds RSS content to video search engine. (Link via Syndicator blog.)

Via DailyPrincetonian.com: The University Channel announces plans to make videos available through iTunes.

Marginalrevolution: Lively discussion on the question “Should professors podcast?”

Via Roanoake.com: The Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy has launched a “copcast.” Here’s the iTunes-ready RSS 2.0 feed. “As much as the Copcast hosts enjoy kidding around, they also discuss serious law enforcement issues….”

Charlie Melichar, Colgate VP of PR and Communications, has launched a blog designed to “to increase the amount of chatter among higher ed PR pros.” Charlie also had some keen insights about new media in higher ed PR as part of this week’s CASE online event on technolgies that will transform PR.

Mayland Community College is podcasting. Here’s the RSS feed and their first offering, a message from the incoming president.

Well, we’re going to try something different (for us). We have this feed directory with more than 700 college and university RSS and Atom feeds of all shapes, sizes, and subjects. There’s a ton of great content flowing through these feeds. I know, because I subscribe to several hundred of them. In large measure, you’ve submitted the feeds. So the question is, where should we go with this directory? I have some ideas. In fact, we are working on some new features that are sure to thrill and delight (me). But I am wondering, what features would be useful to you? What features would encourage and promote use of the feeds? For example, the author of Really Simple Sidi (RSS) suggests an Abstracting and Indexing category. If you have suggestions about features you’d like to see, leave a comment or drop me an email: dan.karleen@thomson.com.

I am very pleased to present three new feeds–make that, three very different and noteworthy feeds–submitted to the College and University Feed Directory recently. I continue to be impressed by the thought and creativity going into these feeds. A hearty thanks to all of you who have submitted your feeds over the last few weeks since we’ve been live.

First, there’s an aggregated feed of blogs at University of South Florida. USF is using a WordPress blog as a way to aggregate mutliple RSS feeds and present them as a single feed. WordPress and a plug-in such as FeedWordPress make this kind of thing pretty easy. (The result is sometimes called a “planet” site.) The fact that they are offering this kind of feed shows that USF is thinking about how these feeds might be used, and have decided that a single consolidated feed might appeal to some people. Instead of subscribing to all the individual blog feeds, I can subscribe to this single feed and receive all the items from the feeds being included in this feed. My friends, behold the power of syndication.

Next, we have our first Swedish-language feed, this of the blog Nyheter Biologi & Geo-biblioteken.

Finally, we have a Mount Holyoke College news and events feed. This feed is generated using the ListGarden RSS Feed Generator (which requires manual maintenance of the feed), with each item accompanied by an image. Shown below are two items from this feed as shown in the Sage feed reader plugin for Firefox.

In two recent posts, Corante’s blog covering podcasting highlights a company offering language learning products via podcast, as well as the University of Washington’s classroom podcasting initiative. The latter points to the role of screencasting in learning, a concept familiar to readers of this blog.

Joining university portals supporting RSS feeds is Southampton University’s newly launched student portal (see news story):

Students are able to see all their courses, timetable and their school website as well as having direct access to their University Webmail account.

…RSS newsfeeds on the main page may be customised so that you get feeds from your favourite websites.

Drexel RSS Club: Club participation dissolves the boundaries of disciplines and geography.

University of Washington: Announcement of classroom podcasting plans. (Link via Podcastingnews.com)

Collegewebeditor.com: Karine Joly has a new series on higher ed bloggers, starting with Robert French.

Tama Leaver: Planning a podcast from the University of Western Australia. (Link via My blog of HR, and technology stuff.)

Paradise Valley Community College: Announces podcast plans. Here’s a PVCC blog/podcast page.

Librarystuff.com: Talking up more blog and wiki-based presentations.

Micropersuasion: On building out a definition around “advercasting.”

The Tech: An update on MITBlogs (registration required), MIT students and admission officers blogging since September, 2004.