I didn’t find much. However, I found at least one use of podcasting that are extending the official knowledge out there. I’ve been reading the ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University by Gary Rosenzweig off my Safari account to get a little more hands-on with the code. Turns out, Gary also has a podcast that extends the lessons in the book, complete with screen grabs (done on the Mac, just to needle it in for some of you) on how to further modify or extend the code examples detailed in some of the lessons. That’s pretty nifty from both a marketing and an educational perspective.

I’d love to find out more about podcasts centered around Flash, Actionscript 3 or scripting in general (for all my experimentations and tutorials, Ruby on Rails still isn’t taking for me — and neither is Flex).

I wanted to propose a podcast curriculum where I’ll talk to something having to do with SCORM and Flash in small chunks, and hopefully keep it light, somewhat entertaining but valuable and focused.

So from the feedback I’m gathering in comments on the SCORM 1.2 ExternalInterface demo, here’s what I think you need to start with:

• Content Package and the Manifest in SCORM 1.2
  1. Get to know the tools we’ll use.
  2. The Parts of the Manifest
  3. Organizing your Manifest in SCORM 1.2
  4. The Manifest and Metadata in SCORM 1.2
  5. How Aaron Rolls (practices and conventions)
• Communicating with the SCORM API
  1. The Parts of your SCO
  2. Using the APIWrapper.js
  3. Accessing the Run-Time Data Model
  4. The Top 10 Data Model Elements in SCORM 1.2
  5. How Aaron Rolls (practices and conventions)

Now… what else am I missing? And are you willing to help, either in the production of the content, QA and testing or simply in supporting the effort with a couple of bucks for some caffeine goodness?

I emailed all of my friends and acquaintences. Maybe 200+ people (I have a lot of actual friends). And of that number, only six people seem to have signed up. Instead of handling the feed myself as I would have using podPress for WordPress, I signed up for FeedBurner, which provides stats on my podcast — who’s signing up via email vs. iTunes vs. Other, how many clicks back to the site have there been, how many downloads of the .mp3 files, etc. But 6 out of 200 is only 3%. I would have thought I’d get better results.

Then a friend of mine called me up yesterday, about a week after I first launched the podcast. She didn’t know what the whole podcasting thing was about, and was confused. So I made my friends a video on how to add my podcast to iTunes, now perhaps better understanding that while most of my oldest friends own iPods… they may never have downloaded a podcast. It might sound weird to this audience, but just think of it as an adoption challenge I didn’t see coming.

I sent the video to my friends, and the numbers the next day? They went DOWN.

Maybe it’s just a bad podcast. Don’t know. But as long as I have my six regular listeners, I’ll keep doing it.