I have been fidgeting with a podcast exploring collage activities for first year writers. This is more or less a dabble to see how to go about creating an enhanced podcast that includes images. First, thanks to Collin Brooke, who posted a profcast and offered the tip about setting mime types on the server in order to deliver the m4a files. I have requested that the server admins add this mime type on campus, but I am not holding my breath.

In the meantime, here are my workarounds: The enhanced podcast hosted on my personal Web site (http://teachmix.com/podcasts/collagecast.m4a), and an m4a file embedded as an object in a Web page, which seems to allow it to display even without the mime type setup--the file opens in a pop-up window and is 4.8mb in size--a nod to Bradley Dilger here; I'm probably violating all kinds of usability issues, but wanted to embed the file without forcing people to download it on the main blog. I will keep testing these now that they are posted. By the way, the audio is recorded using the Blue Snowball.