Category: podcasting
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Self determined music prices
Canadian singer and musician Jane Siberry has made all her music available from her website at self-determined prices. This means people downloading her music decide what price they would like to pay, and if they don’t want to pay anything, that is fine. This may sound like a reasonable idea for someone who has not…
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Saddam Hussein and Lawless World
Yahoo news has published an enlightening profile of Saddam Hussein that includes many facts I did not know about him and Iraqi history. Whatever your position about the current US war in Iraq, I think any observer would have to admit that Saddam was and is quite a bad guy. At least anyone who believes…
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Omaha Podcasters
The article “Pioneer podcasters make digital waves at Westside” from November 26, 2005 tells the story of some Nebraska high school podcasters making history. (If you don’t want to register to view the complete article, use bugmenot.com.) Students at Westside High currently produce 3 podcasts, “Warrior Sports Report,” “Westside Transmit” and “A Farce in the…
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Kids talk about digital literacy
Cheryl Oakes interviewed 3rd and 4th grade students in Wells, Maine recently about information literacy / digital literacy and posted the interview as a podcast on Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast. Great to hear directly from students on these issues. These kids are posting their writing on their Room208 blog as well as publishing…
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Blogs & RSS: Tapping into the global conversation
David Warlick has posted audio from his TechForum presentation last week on “Blogs & RSS: Tapping into the global conversation” in three parts (part 1 – part 2 – part 3) Yet another example of blogging the conference! 🙂 David’s exhortation to educators to challenge students to “prove the authority” of content on the Internet…
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Research needed on podcasting impacts
My AERA 2006 proposal on “podcasting as disruptive transmediation” was not accepted by the review committee. The main reasons it was not accepted were: My proposal did not include a developed theoretical framework. No empirical evidence or study results were included. I am new to “publishing in academe” and so this feedback is both insightful…
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Podcast Maker and Propaganda
Potion Factory has released a $30 software product called “Podcast Maker” which is a podcast publisher for Macintosh OS X. For Windows users, Propaganda 1.0 by MixMeister Technology is a $50 commercial software program that provides both podcast production and publishing help. Like Podcast Maker, it offers a 30 day demo. Everyone needs to understand…
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Fun new podcasts
Two new fun podcasts were published today that you might find interesting… Walter Doue, a graduate student in the College of Education at Texas Tech, made an “interview with John Dewey” podcast using the voice transformer feature of Garageband software. Very creative! Also, the 2nd graders producing Mills Murfee Podcast here in Lubbock released their…
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IT blocks iTunes Music Store
I was working with an elementary teacher recently in a school district that will remain unnamed, teaching him about podcasts and showing him how to access them. Of course the Room 208 podcast was the first one we listened to! We installed iTunes on his computer, and I was pleased that his local installation of…
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Room208 Shoutout to Mills Murfee podcast!
Hey cool, the 3rd and 4th grade students in Room 208 in Wells, Maine included a “shoutout” to the 2nd graders producing the Mills Murfee Podcast here in Lubbock, Texas in their latest podcast from October 28th! 🙂 If you are listening to the podcast in iTunes, you can forward to the 14 min 19…