May 2008
A Day in the Server Room
23 05 08 10:42
Looks like I am going to spend my day in OSCR's server room!
I have been operating a pilot test Podcast Producer server for a few weeks now: exploring features, customizing workflows, streaming video, and giggling gleefully every time I send it video or audio and see it post flawlessly to blog pages and iTunesU test accounts. Michael Griffith from the College of Medicine (CoM) came and played on it with me one morning, and we customized a workflow for the College of Medicine so he could upload video and have it automatically post to a CoM blog.
Finally, I decided it was time to change the server's name to something other than 'temp34,' so I put in the request and a few days later - voilà! Podcast Producer services stopped functioning. LOL. Sooo... I decided it is time to rebuild it and send the server I was using back to Apple (it was on loaner). So, that'll be my work day today. Right now I am waiting for the OS to load up on the box onto which I am installing. Yippeee!
It's exciting, though. The U of A has not been on the podcasting bandwagon nearly enough for a University of it's stature. Stuart Glogoff from Learning Technology Services, down the hall from me, realized this some time ago. I became more aware of it following my training at NAB. So, since I have Podcast Producer server knowledge, I've joined up with Stuart and we will be starting a pilot podcasting service next semester. Faculty Fellows through the Dean of Students office, and the College of Medicine will be participating. So, we have clients, we have the technology, we have a support team, and now all we need to do is articulate our deliverables, train the participating faculty, and we'll be on our way! OK, that makes it sound too easy, but I'm super excited about it.
Podcast
I have been operating a pilot test Podcast Producer server for a few weeks now: exploring features, customizing workflows, streaming video, and giggling gleefully every time I send it video or audio and see it post flawlessly to blog pages and iTunesU test accounts. Michael Griffith from the College of Medicine (CoM) came and played on it with me one morning, and we customized a workflow for the College of Medicine so he could upload video and have it automatically post to a CoM blog.
Finally, I decided it was time to change the server's name to something other than 'temp34,' so I put in the request and a few days later - voilà! Podcast Producer services stopped functioning. LOL. Sooo... I decided it is time to rebuild it and send the server I was using back to Apple (it was on loaner). So, that'll be my work day today. Right now I am waiting for the OS to load up on the box onto which I am installing. Yippeee!
It's exciting, though. The U of A has not been on the podcasting bandwagon nearly enough for a University of it's stature. Stuart Glogoff from Learning Technology Services, down the hall from me, realized this some time ago. I became more aware of it following my training at NAB. So, since I have Podcast Producer server knowledge, I've joined up with Stuart and we will be starting a pilot podcasting service next semester. Faculty Fellows through the Dean of Students office, and the College of Medicine will be participating. So, we have clients, we have the technology, we have a support team, and now all we need to do is articulate our deliverables, train the participating faculty, and we'll be on our way! OK, that makes it sound too easy, but I'm super excited about it.
Podcast
Bobcat
09 05 08 19:30
We had a visitor in our front yard today! She was sitting on top of the adobe wall in front of our house when I left via our front door to go to Gamelan. We startled each other! She jumped down from the wall, found a choice location in our front yard, and plunked down to groom herself and rest a bit. She waited long enough for me to grab my camera and take this picture from about 20 feet away. I've shown this picture to several people who expressed annoyance that I would get so close to a wild animal. In my own defense, I would like to ask everyone to please note her body language, especially ears! She was hardly in 'attack cat' mode...
