Category: podcasting
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Podcast interviews with Oklahoma elected officials on NCLB
I recently discovered the audio podcasting page of the Professional Oklahoma Educators organization, which includes a variety of interviews with Oklahoma elected officials focusing on education policy and specifically NCLB. Strictly speaking I think these are simply posted audio files and not a podcast, since a web feed does not appear to be available permitting…
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Getting Started with Oral History Interviews
This evening at The Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City members of our staff hosted a group of Girl Scouts who are working on their heritage badge requirements. I taught a “station” in our classroom focused on “Getting Started with Oral History Interviews.” I created a short, 1 page PDF handout for our brief sessions together…
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TechCon 2008 GabCast Channel and Chatzy Room
If you’re attending the TechCon 2008 conference today in Naperville, Illinois, here is the Gabcast channel information we are using to share takeaways and learning points from the conference: You can access the conference Chatzy room for backchannel discussions by using the shortened web address tinyurl.com/techcon08 The password to both our Gabcast channel and Chatzy…
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iTunes Installation Guide and Implications of the 4th Screen
This evening was the 2nd of 5 sessions in the adult class “Lifelong Learning with iTunes University” which I’m teaching on Wednesday nights in October and November at our church. In the first five session class I taught on Google Earth, I failed (or more accurately chose not) to provide step-by-step handouts for participants. This…
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Lunch with Clay Shirkey and Alan Kay
From time to time over lunch during the week when I’m not eating with others, I’ve started to watch a TedTalk video on my iPhone. I’ve subscribed to TedTalks in iTunes for at least the past year, and am frequently amazed by the ideas, talent, creativity, and stories of the presenters. Most recently I’ve “had…
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A 2nd grade classroom podcast!
Several years ago when we were living in Lubbock, Texas, I worked with 2nd grade students to create seven podcast episodes in a channel we called the “Mills Murfee Podcast.” After we left Lubbock, however, this channel joined the ranks of the podfaders. Today I received an email from Mrs. Wieland, a 2nd grade teacher…
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Chinesepod and Connectivism: More connections lead to more learning
The Connectivist learning theory, developed by George Siemens and others, focuses on the value of knowledge residing on the network, the value of connecting to both networked knowledge and other individuals via network connections, and the value of collaboratively contributing to this networked knowledge base. In his post “Connectivism squares with our experience,” Ken Carroll…
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Amazed by the power of asynchronous learning
Wow. I glanced at the statistics podPress is keeping for my most recently published podcasts this evening: 17 days ago, Dr. Renee Hobbs from the Media Education Lab at Temple University presented “Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age” here in the Oklahoma City metro area as a keynote at the OTEP reading conference.…
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CamTwist worked today for our webcast!
For this morning’s live Technology Shopping Cart webcast over Ustream and Skype I tried using CamTwist for the first time. Complimenting SoundFlower (a free “Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X”) which can be used to combine and change audio sources for webcasting, CamTwist (also available free) permits users to mix up and…
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Embedding mp3 audio files with a free flash player in Moodle, a wiki or a blog
I use the free PodPress plug-in for WordPress to create browser-based Flash player links for audio and video podcasts I publish here on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” PodPress is not available for Moodle, wikis, or other blog software programs, however. If you are publishing a mp3 audio file podcast to your school website…