RPP #84: Season's Greetings and a Happy 2010

• Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year from Rod's Pulse Podcast

• Podsafe Holiday Music Selections from Music Alley
• "The Christmas Season" by Sudden Death - combines hip hop beats with what Dr. Demento calls "some of the funniest hip hop lyrics I've ever heard"
• "Jingle Bells" by Natalie Brown - soulful vocalist/songwriter with a dynamic, multi-ocatave vocal range
• "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Twisted Sister - yes, that hard rock group from the '70s
• "A Soldier's Christmas" by Jay Goeppner - a Chicago singer/songwriter who has shared his message of peace and love in the style of his hero, John Lennon
• "If Every Day Were Christmas" by Podsafe for Peace - Buy the song for 99 cents and all the proceeds will go to UNICEF
  

Duration: 22:03

RPP #83: E-Readers: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf (Part 2)

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• The Complete Guide to Google Wave - Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help...
• Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom - Some professors--especially those who teach in large lecture halls--have come to embrace social networking as an instructional aid....
• Diigo - Like Delicious and Digg but better, with web highlighting, sticky notes, and annotation.

• Interview (Part 2) on E-Readers with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University: 
• Amazon Kindle
  
• Sony E-Reader
• Plastic Logic
  
• E-Ink - originator of electronic ink technology used in most e-book readers
  
• Barnes & Noble Nook

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon" which was nominated for four Lifestyle Music Awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

Duration: 26 min

RPP #82EP: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Bonus Enhanced Podcast formatted for viewing in iTunes or iPods.
See RPP #82 post below for details.

RPP #82: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Note: This is a standard audio-only mp3 podcast.
See RPP #82EP above for Enhanced Podcast.

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Internet Archive: A Future for Books - BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow books, just like search to find Web sites.
• An E-Textbook Program Aims to Benefit Students and Professors - Professors create digital textbooks bringing prices down from their average cost of $100 to a much more moderate $15.
• Embracing Electronic Textbooks - Electronic textbooks offer convenience for professors, who can easily review a new textbook online, then make a quick decision to include it in a course.
  

• Interview on E-Textbooks with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University
  
• CourseSmart - benefit from instant access to the largest single source of electronic textbooks available anywhere
• Connexions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses and books
• Flat World Knowledge - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards are free to read online
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Stress" (song and flash animation) by highly caffeinated Jim Infantino of the band, Jim's Big Ego. Buy at Amazon

Duration: 23:25

RPP #81: Interview: Dr. Alec Couros on Social Networks in Teaching and Learning

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Campus Technology 2009 Presentations
  
• 7 Textbook Publishers Move to Electronic Format
  

• Interview with Dr. Alec Couros, professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Open Thinking - his professional blog
• Social Media and Open/Networked Learning - his open course
  
• Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning - his recent keynote at the University of Delaware
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
• "New Soul" by Yael Naim, the acclaimed singer/songwriter from Israel, from her album Yael Naim. 'New Soul' gained fame as the music played during Apple's Macbook Air ad campaign.

Duration: 29:13

RPP #80: Lecture Capture in a Nutshell and E-Learning News

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Blackboard Pledges to Follow Open Standards - Blackboard’s Ray Henderson, pledges that the company will do more to follow industry software standards.

• Need to Learn Medicine? There's an App for That - The Medical College of Georgia is providing free health science education apps for their students.

• Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching &Learning - Dr. Alec Couros addresses social networking and education: open courses, control of knowledge, pedagogy, creative commons, and more.
  

• I'll Take My Lecture to Go, Please - A new study suggests a "clear preference" among undergraduates for lecture capture.
  

• Lecture Capture in a Nutshell
  
• Overview of lecture capture
  
• Lecture capture systems offer three important benefits: an alternative when students miss class; an opportunity for content review; and content for online course development.
  
• Resources on lecture capture
• Lecture Capture Feature Comparison Chart - Features of Accordent, Echo360, Mediasite, Panopto, Tegrity and Wimba
  
• 7 things you should know about Lecture Capture (2 page PDF from Educause)
• Previous interviews with lecture capture vendors:
  
• RPP #62: Panopto
• RPP #63: Tegrity
• RPP #71: Echo360
• RPP #72: Wimba
• RPP #77: Mediasite
• View Rod's "lecture capture" bookmarks

• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
  
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Blake Morgan who has worked with Lenny Kravitz, Lesley Gore, Phil Ramone, and others. This licensed remake of the McCartney classic has topped the charts on the iTunes Music Store.
  

Duration: 17:36

RPP #79: Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Review and E-Learning News

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• HigherEd Camp Philly - follow-up and link to their Ning community site
• Does Google Wave Mean the End of the LMS? - The Chronicle is asking whether Blackboard can be replaced by WordPress. How about Google's Wave as a replacement for the LMS?
  
• Blind Search - What happens when you remove the branding from Google, Yahoo and the new Microsoft "Bing" search engines?
  

• Livescribe Pulse SmartpenReview
  
• This computer in a pen records audio while you take notes on special "dot paper". Play back the audio by tapping on your hand written notes, dock the pen to recharge and simultaneously sync to your PC, and share notes and audio.
• "Pencasts" are a great solution for student note taking and faculty who want to describe and animate difficult concepts.
  
• See my demo Pencast on Podcasting:
  

Pencast on Podcasting by Rod Murray
brought to you by Livescribe

• Podsafe Music Selection from the MusicAlley by Mevio (aka Podsafe Music Network)
• "Summertime" by Brother Love - one of the most popular tracks on the network

Duration: 13:09

RPP #78: News from the Podosphere and Blackboard Buys Angel

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• HigherEdCamp Philly - higher education technology unconference on June 6 at the University of Pennsylvania
• Online Education in the United States - from the Sloan Consortium
• YouTube EDU - Google launches higher ed YouTube site
• Wolfram Alpha - computational knowledge engine from maker of Mathematica
• These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - microlectures encourage active learning, says developer David Penrose
• Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting - alternative to expensive audience response systems
• Blackboard Brings LMS App to iPhone - get alerts, read learning content on the go

• Blackboard Buys Angel Learning
• Report from the 2009 Angel Users Conference in Chicago
• Angel Learning CEO, Christopher Clapp, explains the reasons for joining with Blackboard
• Blackboard CEO, Michael Chasen, introduces the new Blackboard Learning CEO, Ray Henderson, former Angel VP

• Podsafe Music Selection from Jamendo
• "Woods of Chaos" by Rob Costlow - New Age Piano

Buy at Amazon

Duration: 20:17