Category: podcasting
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Visualizing evidence for dark matter
What is dark matter? Do you “believe in it?” Why do some scientists say dark matter must exist, even though humans on earth have yet to invent (or discover) a “detector” which can sense and measure dark matter? What elements compose dark matter? If dark matter exists, how much of the universe is filled with…
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Reflections on changing history, national identity, and cultural events in the American midwest
I did quite a bit of driving this past week, traveling to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on both Wednesday and Friday. It’s about two hours of driving one-way from where I live north of Oklahoma City, so that’s almost eight hours of driving in two days. One of my favorite things to do when commuting…
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Copyright questions and answers about iTunes, Podcasts, and Fair Use
I posted the following Q&A series to the TechLearning blog, but am cross-posting this here for my own archival purposes. Generally my TechLearning blog posts aren’t quite this long and I don’t cross-post, but in this case I’m breaking with traditions….. This could probably qualify as an article rather than a blog post! None-the-less, the…
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Podcast235: Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property and Podcasting – NCCE 2008
This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. Intellectual property law, Creative Commons licensed media, and the guidelines under which students can legally publish their ideas in a variety of multimedia formats on the OPEN WEB (accessible by anyone) are important…
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Discussing Copyright, Creative Commons, IP and Education
Steve Hargadon facilitated a great conference call this afternoon about copyright issues in education on his Talkshoe Channel for Classroom 2.0. The recorded conversation is available now (15 minutes after the conversation ended) as a mp3 file. I had never participated in a TalkShoe audio conference before, and I really liked it– especially the way…
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Podcast227: Digital Storytelling Through the Eyes of a Child by Christy Paradise
This podcast is a recording of a wonderful presentation by 4th grade teacher Christy Paradise at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s annual Social Studies and Fine Arts conference on Saturday, February 2, 2008, at the Moore-Norman Technology Center just south of Oklahoma City. Christy applied and was selected to participate last fall in a…
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Podcast222: Using Technology for Building Learning Communities by Alan November
This podcast is a recording of Alan November’s first breakout session on January 31, 2008, at the MidWinter Conference of the OU K-20 Center held in Norman, Oklahoma, on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The title of his session was “Using Technology for Building Learning Communities.” The program description was: We now have…
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Podcast220V: Cleaning Up Downloaded Podcasts with Juice Receiver
This podcast is a short (3 min, 16 sec) screencast explaining how you can use free Juice Receiver software to quickly identify and clean up podcast channels that have more episodes than you want to keep, or episodes you’ve already watched / listened to. Juice Receiver can work in conjunction with iTunes, and when you…
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Feedback on a great podcast about articulating a vision for educational change
The following is a comment I left tonight for Ben Wilkoff on his September 2007 podcast, “Articulating Vision.” It’s not long, take a moment and give Ben a listen as well as some feedback. I’d be interested to hear your responses to Ben’s ideas as well. I’m cross-posting it here for several reasons, but principally…
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Convert WMV files to MOV free
I was delighted to discover the free software utility program “Prism Video Converter” today for Windows, which can convert Windows Media Video (.wmv) files to QuickTime movie (.mov) formatted files for use in podcast channels. What I do NOT know yet is if the settings I used for encoding and the output size will be…