Inspired by the Posterous-powered blog, “Life Sounds Like This,” by Australian Chinese-language educator Jess McCulloch, I’ve created a new blog: “Sounds of My World.” I’m using WordPress on a subdomain (sounds.speedofcreativity.org) of my main blog, and the free Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin. I love the idea of having a “sound blog” for sharing ambient recordings
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For our “Digital Storytelling” cohort at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai this week, Sheldon Bradshaw and I wanted to create an interactive space for participants to share rich media. The easiest way to do this is via a free Posterous blog, configured for ANYONE to post to the blog using a shared email address.
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Podcaster is a wonderful, free iOS application which supports podcast subscriptions, downloads, listening and sharing on the go. A sync to iTunes is NOT required. The latest version supports subscription backups and restores via Dropbox. In this post I’ll describe how to subscribe to a new podcast (on Podomatic) using Podcaster. First, copy the podcast
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Thanks to a Twisst alert I saw last night in my Twitter replies on Hootsuite for iPad, my girls and I saw the International Space Station fly over central Oklahoma early this morning. I’ve highlighted the pass we saw in this screenshot of the NASA Human Spaceflight Live Tracking site, taken about 30 minutes after
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Today I have to drive about six hours getting one of our kids to a summer event, and I want proofread my new eBook which is almost finished, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” These are the steps I followed to convert the text I’ve typed in Pages on my Apple laptop into
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We frequently hear people say “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but pictures can be worth far more to us when they can speak through an associated audio recording. Cloud-based audio recording services like AudioBoo.fm, Cinch.fm and iPadio.com offer students and teachers the ability to quickly create AND share “no edit” audio recordings. These
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Websites like AudioBoo, Cinch, and iPadio which permit “no-edit” audio recording and publishing can be utilized in extremely constructive, powerful and creative ways. I’m finishing up my chapter on Audio tools for my first eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing,” and I’m using an AudioBoo my daughter, Rachel, recorded at the USS
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Here’s a question I’d love for someone to answer: Why does NCH Software, creators and distributors of both free and commercial versions of Switch software for converting audio file types, claim they must charge an extra $2.50 US on top of $40 US (normal price) or $30 US (sale price) to provide: Mp3 Patent License
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I’m on a continuing quest to discover more effective and efficient ways to share audio recordings online, and the Cinch app for iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) continues to be one of my favorites. Today at the TCEA Area 7 Technology Conference in White Oak, Texas, I used the app on my iPhone to
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Today my fifth grade daughter, Sarah, brought home her elementary writing folder. This folder includes samples of her writing dating all the way back to first grade, and she’s never been able to bring it home previously. She was excited to read me several of her essays, so I suggested we record them on the
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This podcast is an interview with EdReach Media Network Founders Scott Meech, Daniel Rezac, Jay Blackman, and Judith Epcke on May 6, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The mission of EdReach is “to take education forward, by bringing voices together.” The vision of EdReach is to provide “…a platform for passionate, outspoken educators- aiming to
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Podcast378: The EdReach Media Network - Empowering Educator Voices Worldwide [ 25:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1695)
This semester in my two undergraduate sections of “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma, I’m having my students take a 20 question multiple choice final exam. This is the only multiple choice assessment I’m giving all semester, as the rest of the course is project based with six different themes. I decided
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My kids and I recorded this 21.5 minute audio podcast on an iPad today during the last leg of our car trip back to Oklahoma from California, discussing tips for winning the game, “Plants Versus Zombies.” This is currently one of our favorite games to play on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoy and
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This is a podcast recording of Dr. Carl Owens’ presentation, “Cool Tools for the Classroom,” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. Carl is a Professor and the Director of Technology at the College of Education, Tennessee Technological University. The official description of Carl’s session was: The session
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Podcast 370: Cool Tools for the Classroom by Dr Carl Owens [ 55:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1706)
These are my notes from Larry Anderson’s presentation “Podcasting & Mobile Media for Teaching & Learning” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I AUDIO RECORDED THIS SESSION AND GOT MALIA’S PERMISSION TO SHARE IT LATER AS A PODCAST.) Why
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This week’s 1.5 day workshop with educational administrators and teachers in Montana, “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD,” was a great learning experience at multiple levels. Whenever educators get together and create media projects which are shared online and celebrated, good things usually happen. That’s been a key part of the formula for our Storychasers’
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I like iTunes and enjoy using it, but from time-to-time I want to subscribe to a NEW podcast on my iPhone when I’m away from my computer. While iTunes on iOS devices (iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches) permits users to download new episodes in podcasts to which you are ALREADY subscribed and have at least
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Today my wife and I shared a short (20 minute) presentation in our 1st grade daughter’s class. She attends a public school here in Edmond, Oklahoma. Rachel was “Pooh’s Special Friend” this week, which is basically like being the student of the week. She was allowed to bring some photos and items from home to
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Studio 46 is a weekly podcast in Edmond, Oklahoma, moderated by Brian Bush of Oklahoma Christian University and published by The Edmond Sun newspaper. In the podcast’s most recent episode, on January 7, 2011, Brian hosted Kenny Goza. Goza was one of five Republican candidates vying for the vacated Oklahoma state senate seat of newly
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I’m pleased to announce the launch of “Fuel for Educational Change Agents,” a new educational podcast channel available on audio.speedofcreativity.org. The official description of this new channel, which I’m publishing using free / open source Podcast Generator software, is: This audio podcast channel includes a variety of audio recordings by and recorded by Wesley Fryer,
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