We are looking very closely at Apple's Podcast Producer for use in and around campus. I wrote a little about it the other day while sitting in a meeting ... this morning I opened the QuickTime player on my MBP to record a very quick piece of audio. When I went to the export it I saw a "Share ..." option in the File menu. Not remembering that from the QT Player in 10.4 I decided to check it out. What I saw really surprised me ... an option to share the file to a Podcast Producer server.
What that means to me is that I can open QT Player anywhere, record audio/video, and instantly publish it to our Podcast Producer Server. I haven't looked at it beyond that, but it certainly makes me realize there is big power coming together here. With a chain like iTunes U, Podcast Producer, simple creation tools, and facilities on campus to help people make digital content, sharing just got a whole heck of a lot easier. I will be interested to see how/if workflow can be invoked from a simple "Share ..." command in QuickTime. If it can, the possibilities for quick and easy content creation and distribution is only limited to what one could dream up. I wonder in the Windows version of QT Player can do this?
I'll share more as we get further down the path. I am also curious to see what happens when I click the login button ... will it give me a new set of options to invoke custom workflows? If that is the case we can build workflows to put things in all sorts of places ... want to publish to an iTunes U course space? Done. Want to publish via your Blog? Done. Want to push it to our streaming server? Done. I am hoping the integration I see lets me take the final step and really create once and publish to many environments.
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