Now that instructors have the ability to produce podcasts (audio and/or video) of their lectures and demonstrations, some (how many I don't know) are actually using podcasting to push the material to students.  MSU provides storage, syndication, and production services to departments. 
 
Since this would be a good way for us to "show and tell" some of the complexities of the financial aid process, I'm just trying to get an idea how many students already use mp3 players (the number who have video capability would also be useful). 
From: Vasquez, Timo
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:04 PM
To: Byers, Sharon; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [MSUNAG] stats on students with mp3 players?

Do you mean that just play mp3 files?  Maybe a more exact question is how many video capable mp3 devices are out there? Or who has just music playing devices?   Is this about podcasts?  I don’t mean to sound crude, I am only trying to get detailed responses to this question cause I am curious myself.

 

Maybe we need to make a web pole for the students.

 

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From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Byers, Sharon
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:51 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] stats on students with mp3 players?

 

Do we have an idea how many MSU students have mp3 players? 

 

I did get stats in a class today that of students who own mp3 players, the vast majority have iPods.