UNL professor Calvin Garbin records his Psychology 350 course and puts the audio files on the web for podcasts and MP3 downloads. (Jill Peitzmeier)
"It's called podcasting, class, and it may mean you never, ever have to take notes again. Psychology Professor Calvin Garbin is one of the first instructors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take the college student's latest favorite gadget, the iPod, and harness its power as an educational tool.
After he wrapped up his Wednesday Intro to Psychology lecture - a lecture in which he spoke for 50 minutes about such things as - causal research hypothesis' - Garbin returned to his office on the second floor of Burnett Hall and began the process of making the 20th-century lecture available with 21st-century technology.
He had recorded the class using a wireless microphone hooked to his shirt. That sound morphed into an audio file on Garbin's computer after being captured by a receiver in his office.
Now all the long-time psychology professor needed to do was cut the audio into short chunks and place it on his Web site. " (more)
