Category: podcasting
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Oklahoma Political Themes: Fire Rural School Superintendents and Overpaid State Physicians
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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Fuel for Educational Change Agents: A new, lightly-edited podcast channel
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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Learning about Scratch Basics (a podcast interview with 7 and 10 year olds)
My daughters, Sarah and Rachel, recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu. Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course,…
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Help Needed: A Name for an Uncut Audio Channel
My positive experiences this semester using Podcast Generator (free / open source server software) to publish audio lecturecasts of my weekly classes at the University of North Texas have inspired me to create a new podcast channel. Currently, I’m publishing (usually) at least one new audio podcast episode per month on “Moving at the Speed…
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Compressing Audio Lecturecasts for Publishing with Switch Software
Switch is a free software program for Windows and Macintosh computers which lets users (among other things) compress audio files so they can be transferred faster over the Internet. If you publish podcasts, and specifically audio lecturecasts, Switch is a great program to have and use. It’s one of the optional software programs we recommend…
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Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing #globaled10
Please join me tomorrow at 6 pm CST (Fri 19 Nov 12:00AM GMT) for my keynote during the 2010 Global Education Conference. The session title is, “Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing.” This is a LIVE, online presentation hosted by Elluminate. This is the link to the Elluminate session room, which will open one hour…
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iPad Doorprizes, Clearly Announced Conference Recording Permissions, & Ustreaming #micon
If you ever have an opportunity to attend one of the conferences or workshops sponsored by The Martin Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, definitely go! This past September at their conference, educators in attendance won FIVE brand new Apple iPads along with several Flip Video cameras as door prizes. Now that’s what you call Christmas in…
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Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool
These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS…
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The Fisch Flip in Michigan: Dale Eizenga on flipping traditional lecture and homework routines
Colorado teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams were some of the first educators I learned about who are leveraging the power of podcasting, screencasting, and video sharing to “flip” the traditional model of lecture in class and homework at home which predominates in many schools today. In his article “Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new…
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K-12 Online Conference Presentation Teasers! #k12online10
The 2010 K-12 Online Conference starts on Monday, October 11th with Dean Shareski‘s pre-conference keynote. The next two weeks, 40 presentations by educators and students from around the world will be posted both to the conference blog and the conference Ning. Five presenters have created short, “teaser videos” to whet our appetites in advance of…