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The Lectures Heard (and Seen) Around the World
A new audio and video "podcast" streams lectures by English Department faculty to listeners and viewers across the state and around the world.
the EServer Lectures on Demand Website
A new Internet audio and video resource now "podcasts" lectures by Department of English faculty to listeners and viewers throughout Iowa and around the world, free of charge.
The service already includes presentations by faculty members such as Lee Poague, Barb Blakely Duffelmeyer, Susan Yager, Laura Mielke, Kathleen Hickok, Susan Carlson, K.J. Gilchrist, Allen Michie, Neil Nakadate, Laura Winkiel, David Zimmerman, among others. It also contains lectures by academics from other departments and universities, including a dean from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and the provost from George Mason University, in Virginia.
The system, called "Lectures on Demand," is based on the EServer and made possible by the ISU Studio for New Media. It publishes video and audio recordings via the iTunes Music Store (for both Windows and Mac iTunes users, and for portable audio and video players). The recordings are served entirely using the open standards of MP3 and MPEG4, so they can also be viewed directly from web browsers or using any standards-compliant device.
If you already have a recent version of iTunes installed on your computer, open a web browser and go to: http://lectures.eserver.org/itunes. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it (free of charge) for Windows or Macintosh. Your computer will access an XML file from the iTunes Music Store (which they get periodically from our server), and you will see the list of the most recently-added lectures. Then you could choose to "get" any of them you'd like to watch/hear. And if you choose to "subscribe" to the podcast, your computer will automatically see when we post new audio or video content to the podcast, and download it to your computer for you to watch at your convenience.
If you prefer not to use iTunes, you can also access the lectures directly from the Web, at http://lectures.eserver.org/.
Now we'll have to get the digital audio recorders and camcorders working constantly, recording more presentations. :)
By the way, if you'd like to submit an audio or video recording of an academic presentation to be included in our collection, please do contact us.
