The Podcast
This podcast is recorded during class lectures for History of Photography, Photo 1105 at College of DuPage. The podcasts are intended as review for students in the class, but thousands of people around the world have found them useful to their education as photographers. Please be aware that there are many links to relevant class information on the class’ main web page, as well as a course syllabus – use the links to the right to find that information.
As each of the current semester’s class sessions occur, the corresponding podcast from the previous semester is replaced by the new one. Therefore, there is always a “full semester” of podcasts available on these blog pages and on iTunes.
Listening, Watching & Subscribing
You can listen to the podcasts from these pages or you can subscribe to them using a podcast reader. The most popular podcast reader is Apple’s iTunes. If you subscribe using this link, each time there is a new class session posted on the internet, the software will automatically download it to your computer.
Regardless of where you watch/listen to them, the podcasts can be paused, stopped and started like any other audio that you might find. This means you can skip ahead over sections that aren’t as relevant to you or rewind to hear a section over again.
You don’t need an iPod
Despite their name, you don’t need to have an iPod to listen to podcasts. Simply download the podcasts to your computer and play them there. Because the podcasts are in the highly compatible .mp3 format, you can also play them on Android, Zune and other devices.
See the Class Slides
You can see all the visuals that are used for each class (slides) using the appropriate link for each individual class session. You’ll find a set of regular web pages linked at each class session posting.
Podcasting to the World
For those interested in how podcasts can extend a class beyond the classroom’s walls, see Globalizing Education One Podcast at a Time, an article I wrote for the journal Technology in Higher Education.
