Category: podcasting
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The new story dialog continues
David Warlick has posted a blog entry as well as a podcast in response to last week’s international skypecast focusing on his ideas about telling the new story! I’ll be reading and listening to this on Monday as I make my way to Orlando for the SITE 2006 and FETC 2006 conferences. 🙂
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Dallas podcasting article
The article in today’s Dallas Morning News, “With school podcasts, upgraded learning is ready for download,” provides an excellent overview of podcasting’s current and potential uses in K-12 education. The article’s author, Katherine Leal Unmuth, contacted me by phone for an interview about podcasting following my keynote presentation at ESC10 in Richardson several weeks ago…
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No live skypecast feed today
We’ve had a very generous offer from Jeff Lebow of Worldbridges to live webcast our international skypecast this afternoon, but because of the prior format we’ve setup we are going to take him up on that offer later. I should have the skypecast available later today by 4 pm central time.
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iPods in the college classroom
Tuesday’s article in USA Today, “iPods now double as study aids,” paints a positive picture of the impact podcasting is having in higher education. The article notes that posting content as podcasted audio can actually increase class attendance: Richard Lucic, a professor of computer science, says 12 Duke classes experimented with using iPods last year.…
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International skypecast #2
Darren Kuropatwa, Ewan McIntosh, Miguel Guhlin and I are planning to do another international skypecast (including participants in Scotland, Canada, and the U.S.) this Thursday, March 16th at 2:30 pm central time. We are again using a wiki to collaborate not only on our scheduled date/time, but also to discuss what questions we’ll address. If…
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PodNova and Podcast Subscriptions
The recent crash of my laptop hard drive has provided an excellent opportunity to tryout the free software program PodNova. PodNova is both a free web 2.0 service and a free client application that works with iTunes and several other podcatching software programs. As a web 2.0 service, it provides a method for not only…
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Medal of Honor Winners Podcast
I had a chance yesterday to listen to a podcast from the outstanding Medal of Honor Winners Podcast, sponsored by the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago, Illinois. We listened to the podcast interview with Gary Littrell, who is a Vietnam-era medal of honor winner who retired as a US Army Commmand Sergeant Major. Wow. The…
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Joe Lambert on Digital Storytelling
Joe Lambert is the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling located in Berkeley, California, and will be a keynote speaker at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando in 2 weeks. Today, Dr. Michael Searson, the Dean of the College of Education at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, posted a 36…
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Our City Podcast
Tony Vincent, the lucky students at Willowdale Elementary in Omaha, Nebraska, and any other group of students with the initiative to contribute have another podcasting channel, Our City Podcast: Our City Podcast is an audio program for kids and by kids. Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the…
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Podcasting in Higher Ed Roundtable
Last week, on March 1, 2006, the Texas Tech University IT Division hosted a roundtable discussion about podcasting in Higher Education. The official title of the session was, “Podcasting: ‘Stream On’ – Global Distributed Learning.” One of the special guests was Dr. David Miller, who uses interactive discussion-casts (as podcasts) with his undergraduate psychology students…