Category: podcasting
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Classroom Audio Podcasting
I have finished writing a new article for the TechEdge this evening/morning entitled, “Classroom Audio Podcasting.” I have had to write another article from scratch since TCEA refused to publish a 2nd article I wrote this fall, this time concerning digital curriculum and bandwidth. Admittedly the piece was politically strident, but I am still very…
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Ray Kurzweil on Future Technology
Whoa. I listened today to the 34 minute Science Friday podcast from December 23, 2005, featuring Ray Kurzweil discussing future technologies. He is the author of “The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology.” In the podcast interview, Kurzweil focuses mostly on the growth of biotechnology, where biology and technology are increasingly being wed.…
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Modern day gnosticism
Remember if you are not interested in reading posts like this about non-education/educational technology stuff, you can always subscribe to the “edtech only” feed for my blog. Tonight for fun (and in preparation for my continuing Sunday school teaching series about the theology of C.S. Lewis) I spent about an hour and fifteen minutes listening…
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Bringing the American Revolution to life
On our current holiday vacation, our family has been immensely enjoying the book “1776” by David McCullough on audio CD. I have studied the American Revolution in the past, of course, but had not heard most of the stories McCullough recounts about soldiers, citizens, and leaders on both sides of the battle lines in Boston,…
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Great K-12 podcast examples
Educational podcasting is still pretty rare, at least in Texas schools in my perception, but more great examples of creative teachers and students using podcasts are available than ever before. Here are some new ones I learned about recently along with a couple I’ve been listening to for awhile: STUDENT PODCASTS Radio Willoweb: Podcasts by…
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Podcast Creation Guide
Apple has published a free Podcast Creation Guide (31 page PDF file) that would be an excellent resource guide for anyone working with teachers who want to learn about podcasting on Macintosh computers. After introducing podcasting, the process involved and the respective file formats, the guide covers options for recording podcast content with QuickTime Pro,…
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Morning with Marc Prensky
I spent some time recently driving to and from work with Marc Prensky, hearing him share some great insights about engaging digital natives in our classrooms and the value of games in helping students develop and refine problem solving skills. I actually did this by listening to podcasts of Marc’s keynote address from the Christa…
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Preparing teachers of digital immigrants
Dr. Michael Searson is the Dean of the College of Education at Kean University in Union, NJ, and recently did a wonderful interview about teacher education and our digital environment / the need to prepare teachers to teach digital natives. This is the best podcast I have heard to date that addresses these issues by…
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Uconference model and Dynamical Dialog
The upcoming Podcaster Conference in North Carolina (Podcastercon.org scheduled for January 2006) is taking a radically different approach to sharing ideas and networking at a conference. These ten ideas summarize what the organizers are trying to do, and the philosophy with which they are encouraging others to attend and participate. They are trying to operationalize…
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$100 to talk to the world
Bud the Teacher reflected on the Worldbridges podcast for December 4th how amazing it is that by paying $100 (the webhosting cost for his blog, I think) he is able to regularly communicate with a global audience via his blog and podcast. I couldn’t agree more. Of course money is really not required at all…