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Coverage of Professor Daniel H. Foster's use of podcasting in the classroom at Duke University and as a new dramatic medium.
Newspapers and Magazines
A Soundtrack for Study from The Guardian, August 17, 2005: "Students are as keen as their lecturers on the capability of this unfolding technology. Tiffany Chen is a theatre student at Duke who had never heard of podcasting before her professor introduced her to the technology. 'Students can choose when and where they want to listen to podcasts, and I get to present my theatre work straight to the public,' she says. 'Podcasting also gives another impetus to make a good product beside grades.'"
Radio Drama Aficionado Revives Lost Form: Podcasts Update Classic Stories from Raleigh News and Observer, July 11, 2005: "Foster, 37, is an opera enthusiast and composer who has a keen interest in audio-theater. Now that he's an assistant professor of dramatic history and literature in the Duke University theater department, he hopes to draw more, and younger, devotees to the genre. This past semester, Foster fashioned a course to do just that --'Radio: The Theater of the Mind.' With iPods and other new gadgets at their avail, the 10 students in the class were introduced to the broadcasts of yesterday so that they could produce modernized versions for tomorrow."
Seriously, iPods are Educational from The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2005: "For some courses, the iPod can be a transformative technology, not just a handy one, according to Daniel Foster, an assistant professor of theater who teaches a class on the history of American radio. Broadcasts of old radio programs like Amos and Andy, which are the source materials for the course, are hard to come by in library reserves, but by using iPods Mr. Foster has been able to dip into his personal collection to give students copies of shows they can listen to on their own." (follow article link for further details on podcasting and The Theater of the Mind course)
Gadgets Rule on College Campuses from USAToday, March 28, 2005: "Students in a Duke class on the history of American radio use the iPod to digitally record their own radio shows. 'It's adding to students' sense of excitement about the subject,' says Daniel Foster, who teaches the class."
Television
Future School on Australia's Channel 7 program Beyond Tomorrow, July 6, 2005