Category: podcasting
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Public Schools Are Not Businesses – Why Educational Sharing Matters
If you have access to a phone and can use it, you can readily publish audio online for FREE as a podcast using iPadio. Your students can as well. This process is called “phonecasting.” Tuesday I recorded a 23 minute phonecast using iPadio on my iPhone, continuing my review of Diane Ravitch’s new book, “The…
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Storychaser digital backpack to Haiti
In 1992-93, when I studied for a year in Mexico, I was blessed to be unofficially “adopted” by the family of one of my college classmates. His parents both worked in the US Embassy in Mexico City at the time, and it was wonderful to get to know their family that year I lived abroad.…
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Digital audio recorder quest: affordable, powerful, compatible (May 2010)
In our 2.5 day oral history and digital storytelling workshops, Storychasers typically provides each participant with a “digital backpack” of equipment including a digital audio recorder, a headset with microphone, a digital camera, a USB flash drive, and a media SD card for the camera. Of these five items, the digital audio recorder is my…
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Quickly publish student writing with WordPress and iPadio (no-edit podcasts)
Helping people of any age become writers and authors is a BIG deal. In this post, I’ll explain how I used a WordPress blog last night and a free account with iPadio to publish the text of a student-created story as well as an audio recording of the student reading her story orally. It took…
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Webcasting with the Seedlings: In the Sprankle Podcave!
Last night I had the great privilege of webcasting with the Seedlings (Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes and Alice Barr) LIVE from the podcave of Bob Sprankle! This was a “magical” show, to say the least! Check out the archived show on Bit by Bit.If you’re unfamiliar with the term “podcave,” check out Tim Wilson’s Christmas…
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Oklahoma City Podcasting Club – March 2010 Meeting Notes
These are my notes from the March 10, 2010 Oklahoma City Podcasting Club meeting, led by Chad Henderson. Chad’s podcast is Elmocast. The OKC Podcasting Club started in January 2010, tonight is the third meeting. It meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm at the The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (OKCCoCo.) Check…
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Update about the PodStock 2010 Conference
Last week when I was at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas, I recorded the following three minute update with Lori Fast and Kevin Honeycutt, discussing preparations for the 2010 PodStock Conference. Podstock 2010 will take place July 16 and 17 in Wichita, Kansas. Join the Podstock 2010 Facebook Event to stay up to date about the…
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Lecturecasting on a Shoestring with a Macbook, Ustream, CamTwist, MPEG Streamclip and Blip.tv
This semester I am teaching two sections of a 15 week course at the University of Central Oklahoma called, “Technology 4 Teachers.” This is a required course for all UCO College of Education undergraduates which meets once per week, for two hours. I want to record at least one of my two repeated lectures each…
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K12Online09 on The Heartland Flyer
It is January 1, 2010, and I am riding on the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. I have been watching presentations from the 2009 K-12 Online Conference on my iPhone. Thanks to the available podcast channels in iTunes and the presentation transcoding functionality provided by the conference Blip.tv account,…
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Drive by Wifi when 3G downloads exceed 10 MB
The iPhone is configured by default, most likely because of a bandwidth-limiting agreement with AT&T, to NOT download podcasts, software or other files via iTunes which exceed 10 MB in size. A couple weeks ago I wanted to download the latest NPR Technology Podcast “on the road,” but the filesize was greater than 10 MB…