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