Skip the Middleman

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060526/1755212.shtml

College 2.0: No Lectures, But Plenty Of Podcasts, Blogs And Text Messages
from the lectures?--how-1.0-of-you dept
We've seen tons of stories these days about professors recording their lectures and posting them online for download, but one professor in the UK is going even further. He's getting rid of in-person lectures completely. Instead, he's only recording the lessons for students to download as podcasts or video. Students can then ask questions via email or text message, and the professor will respond on his blog. It's all very "2.0" of him. While some will say that this is a less personal approach to teaching, that might not really be true. What the professor noticed is that there's less benefit in large lectures for the students to actually be present. Instead, this way, he can focus on spending time with students in smaller groups, where he's actually focused on teaching, rather than just lecturing. Not surprisingly, in order to facilitate that, he also has a web-based schedule for students to see when he's free to meet.

soft launch

in response to someone's begging josh for a class-spot on the ITP list, i publicly posted, for the first time, the URLs of the sites that are at the moment comprising Maxmspvids. The drupal site is still a ways away from being functional, the recent vids are nowhere to be seen, i'm missing the advanced RSS xml page, and i'm sure there're a hundred other things i'm missing. But still. I'd love to think that maybe people will check it out and find it useful.