Category: podcasting
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Educational technology legal issues
Fantastic podcast published today by Tim Wilson, “Scott McLeod: Legal and Ethical Issues.” Scott discusses issues of liability, picture phones, student blogs, cyberbullying, intellectual property etc. Key among Scott’s comments are to remember that students cannot harass others, disrupt instruction, participate in activities harmful to others, damage the reputations of others at school irrespective of…
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Amazing events today at Duke and MIT
Great conversations going on today that will be archived for later consumption via podcast– Duke University is hosting a podcasting symposium that started yesterday and is continuing today. A live video feed is available, and they are going to archive presentation content following it. Andy Carvin is podcasting from the fifth annual MIT Technology Review…
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EDIT 5310 Podcasts
I am teaching EDIT 5310 “Microcomputer Applications” for Wayland Baptist University here in Lubbock this term. We have started publishing some recordings of class presentations as podcasts, which are available from this Feedburner link. I have not submitted this to iTunes for formal inclusion, but if you want to subscribe to it with iTunes you…
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ccPublisher
Creative Commons Publisher (ccPublisher) is a free software application running on Windows and Mac OS X (Linux version coming) that allows anyone to upload media content to the Internet Archive, along with meta data including a Creative Commons license selected by the publisher. The software tool (ccPublisher) is free, the Internet web hosting is free,…
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How Big is the Universe?
The University of Chicago is publishing a series of short interviews with faculty members, discussing their research activities and interests, called “Research at Chicago.” We listened to several of these podcasts recently on a long car trip to a relative’s wedding. Some were great, some were less compelling, but one really stood out to me.…
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Transparency and Candor
I had the wonderful opportunity this morning at my Friday morning church men’s fellowship meeting to hear Walt Huffman speak to us about his life experiences as a soldier, national leader, and now Dean of the Texas Tech School of Law. Many thoughts ran through my head as I listed to Major General (Retired) Huffman…
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Podcastin’ and Skippin’ class, Academic Transparency
Friday’s article “iPods offer note-taking alternatives to lectures” from the Cavalier Daily reveals that Texas A&M is moving forward aggressively podcasting instructor lectures. This quotation from the article stuck out to me: Wilcox said he isn’t worried students will stop attending class. My response is, if students could stop coming to class and just listen…
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Podcast circulation
Feedburner is a great, free tool for not only creating RSS feeds that “play well” with different podcast receivers (including iTunes), but also excellent because of the free, detailed information it provides about your podcast circulation. According to my latest feedburner circulation details, about 50 folks worldwide are subscribing to my podcasts. This is very…
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Trumping technology in the classroom
The Daily Eastern News “is the 9,100-circulation paper for Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.” I was quite surprised to learn I was referenced in the article, “Trumping technology in the classroom,” published in today’s edition. I would guess the article’s author did some googling for “technology integration.” Amazingly, a Google search for the words…
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Education Podcast Network
Being able to listen to podcasts almost makes me wish I had a long commute every day so I could have more idle time behind the wheel of the car to just listen. Almost! Looking for new podcast content? The Education Podcast Network created by David Warlick is a great resource to call on for…