Category: podcasting
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Enhanced podcasts and bandwidth
Well, I take this as a mixed message. I received the following email from the .Mac account administrators today: This means several things: My published enhanced podcasts (most recently by Dr. David Berliner) must be fairly popular. (The mp3 version is not hosted by .Mac and is still available.) Folks wanting to download that enhanced…
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Great educational vodcast
Bob Sprankle’s 3rd and 4th grade students in Room208 (Wells, Maine) have posted an excellent vodcast (video-podcast) about how they make their classroom podcasts. It is about 5 minutes long. (Check out their podcast channel feed for additional podcasts.) Last week, I viewed this with teachers and school administrators in the El Paso area and…
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Cut to the Core
Cut to the Core is a podcast channel created by various Apple Distinguished Educators around the globe. Great ideas and interviews! 🙂 Thanks to the amazing Maria Henderson for this link!
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Professors banning laptops
Hot of the presses of MSN today: “More professors ban laptops in class: Attempt to end computer distractions; rekindle discussion.” From the article: PHILADELPHIA – As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually…
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iWeb and switching computers
I recently had to change my primary laptop computer because of a hard drive crash, and thankfully I was able to move and backup all my data before disaster struck. However, I neglected to make a backup of my Home folder – Library – Application Support – iWeb directory (as an archive) and therefore have…
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Import Garageband Audio at 44.1
I’m working on an enhanced podcast version of Dr. David Berliner’s presentation on high stakes testing and NCLB from yesterday in Garageband, and ran into a frustrating problem I’ve just solved. When I record on my iPod using my iTalk mic, the resulting audio file is in WAV format. If I try to import that…
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Troubles for NCLB: It may not be improving achievement and it corrupts the profession
These are my notes from Dr. David Berliner’s presentation this morning at the Texas Tech University College of Education annual research conference. The title of his presentation is, “Troubles for the NCLB Act: It may not be improving achievement and it corrupts the profession.” A PDF copy of Dr. Berliner’s PowerPoint slides is available. This…
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Apple Digital Media Gallery
The Apple Digital Media Gallery for Student Work includes various collections of student-created digital media. These include movies and animations, pictures, music, and presentations. A “winner’s circle” collection is also available that includes links to some of the best contributions. If you are working with students and/or teachers and creating digital media, this is a…
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Passion for Podcasting
Tim Wilson’s presentation on podcasting (available as an enhanced podcast) at the March 23, 2006 “Podcast Palooza” at the Florida Educational Technology Conference was outstanding. Tim (author of the The Savvy Technologist blog and podcast) is one of the most skilled educational podcasters I know, and does a very good job sharing both the technical…
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Comments and Customization with iWeb
iWeb is part of the iLife 06 suite of multimedia production software programs included with every new Macintosh. Back in February 2006, I shared several presentations about using iWeb at our TCEA state technology conference. (See Podcast34: Using iWeb for Blogging and Publishing for one of these presentations.) Now, thanks to the creative development work…