RPP #24 Blackboard Backpack, Elluminate and Apreso Classroom

Topics covered during this 26 minute podcast:

• Interview with Dr. Tony Frisby, Director of Education Services, Academic & Instructional Support & Resources, Thomas Jefferson University
• Blackboard Backpack (backpack.blackboard.com), a personal learning tool, allows students to download all of their course content to a laptop, tablet PC or desktop PC. It supports creating annotations and notes on course documents along with highlighting, searching and other helpful features.
• Elluminate (www.elluminate.com), a synchronous learning tool, offers Internet-based video conferencing, also called 'webcasting,' to extend the reach of live classroom teaching to students at remote locations.
• Apreso Classroom (www.apreso.com), an asynchronous learning tool, captures the classroom experience and makes it available to students for online review at a later time. It enable students to improve comprehension and retention, and professors to improve the effectiveness of class and office hours. Apresso also creates podcasts of lectures for students to sync with their iPods or other digital music player.
• "Not on the Radio" by Geoff Smith and the Tonewheels from the Podsafe Music Network (music.podshow.com).

RPP #23 Podcasting News, Classroom 2.0 and Podsafe Vivaldi

Topics covered during this 23 minute podcast:

• YouTube for Colleges (http://www.youtube.com/school_main)
  
• Microsoft-designed "School of the Future" (http://www.cnn.com/.../school.of.future.ap/)
  
• Rodney McPhail and his "Pod Pedagogy" (http://www.bio.purdue.edu/)
• Apple + iPods @ GCSU (http://ipod.gcsu.edu/)
  
• California Western School of Law Podcast (http://www.podcastingnews.com/)
  
• Harvard Law's CyberOne Podcast (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/)
  
• Classroom 2.0: Interview of Will Richardson on the Brian Lehrer Show (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2006/09/07)
  
• Podsafe Vivaldi: Concerto No. 3 in F Major (Autumnl) by the American Baroque Orchestra. The full CD entitled "The Four Seasons by Vivaldi" is available at magnatune.com
  

RPP #22 Podcasting 101 and Implications for Health Care

Topics covered during this 20 minute podcast:

• Text to Speech Generator (www.wizzardsoftware.com)
  
• Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net)
  
• Castblaster (www.castblaster.com)
  
• Podsafe Music (music.podshow.com, www.magnatune.com)
  
• NPR "On the Media" (www.onthemedia.org)
  
• Apple iTunes Podcast Directory (www.apple.com/itunes/)
• Yahoo Podcast Directory (podcasts.yahoo.com)
• Juice Podcast Receiver (juicereceiver.sourceforge.net)
  
• Health Care Podcast Scenarios (student, clinician, patient)
  
• Pulse, Jefferson's Blackboard System (pulse.jefferson.edu, www.blackboard.com)
  
• Apreso Classroom (RPP #6, www.apreso.com)
  
• Apple iTunes U (www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/)
  
• Continuing Education Podcasts (www.cmepodcasting.com, nursingspectrum.netstation.us/, www.med.nyu.edu/podcasting)
  
• Cardiovascular Multimedia Information Network (cvmd.org)
  
• Interview with Dr. Grayson Wheatley (RPP #16)
  
• Podsafe Theme: "On a Podcast" by Cruisebox (audiopium.typepad.com/thatpodcastsong)