week 6
October 6, 2008
I was so grateful for this week’s reading because I know next to nothing about podcasts and creating websites. The Cohen and Rozenzweig book, Digital History, was such a wonderful resource because it not only gave step by step instructions to creating a historical website, but it aided in explaining the most common terms of Internet jargon and describing the various website creating tools available. Some of the past readings were a bit overwhelming (cyberinfrastructure?!). These readings came at a perfect time to help calm my digital history anxiety!
The case studies were also very helpful. I have heard of podcasts and knew basically what they accomplished, but I didn’t realize how much preparation, recording and processing, editing, and marketing went into a perceived “simple” thing. I was under the assumption that podcasts were only created by hugely organized institutions that provided the end product to Apple’s iTunes store! I never realized that there are hundreds of podcast directories for any conceivable topic or interest. I particularly enjoyed the podcast tutorial on forevergeek.com (although the tutorial on how-to-podcast-tutorial.com was extremely similar). It was so simple and easy for me to understand. It shows how easy it would be for historical institutions to create podcasts and utilize a completely different medium.
October 8, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I agree that the readings were helpful. I also did not have much prior knowledge about podcasts, but I felt the tutorial was helpful and I really enjoyed the presentation in class today. What did you think of it?