I was scrolling through my RSS feeds and I found one of the most helpful reviews I have seen in a long time. Cole Camplese describes his experience with ProfCast, a program that records your lectures into a format for podcasting.
You might think that any old microphone hooked up to your computer could do that, but with ProfCast, you can sync your slides from Keynote (please don’t tell me that you use PowerPoint) to the audio from your lecture real time. Therefore, those who download your podcast can follow your presentation both audibly and visually.
I went to the ProfCast website and from what they say, it’s pretty easy to use. I went ahead and bought it, it’s only $35, and I will test it myself and report here how it works. Furthermore, I will make a new page and will upload the podcasts so that you can see the final product.
In short, this seems like an incredibly useful too. But, it only works with a Mac. Sorry all you PC users, but this is reason 1,346,782 to make the switch.
(By the way, if you are interested in podcasting your lectures for your class or others to see but don’t have a website, my friend David Esrati at blogosopher is the guy who can set you up and put you at the top of Google.)
Charles … glad you found the review helpful and that you went a head and purchased the software. I like the toolset and think it has great potential … if only more of us were sitting on the Mac platform this would be a no-brainer. Of the 300 or so classrooms that are centrally supported on the University Park campus of Penn State, only 75 have Macs in the podiums … that is too bad. I’ll keep looking at the tools and keep reporting what I find if you do the same!
Macs are so easy to use and work so well with teaching and multimedia that it’s surprising that only around 1/4 of the podiums have Macs. Maybe this will start to change. I look forward to see what else you find. Keep up the great work Cole!
Hi Charles,
Nice blog, hope all is going well in your further education. God Bless.