If I see that there is technology which may substantially help me in my work, I go to all sort of extremes to use it. Now this is about podcasting. After having spent couple of days trying to create podcasts of my calculus lectures using a Windows computer, I finally gave up and bought myself a Mac couple of hours ago. This is the first piece of text that I am writing with my Mac.

The program that interests me most is called Profcast. It seems to allow a professor to podcast himself or herself conveniently to the students. I cannot wait to experiment with that tomorrow. Of course, in my case, my students do not have iPods. So this will not help them now. But perhaps later... In the meanwhile I will continue creating flash movies of my lectures.

This technology bug is like a toothache for me. When I get it, it must be cured. Life would be much easier without such a bug.

Later I will report on profcasting, podcasting and viewing the lectures on an iPod Touch.

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