Rod's Pulse Podcast: 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Rod's Delicious iPad Bookmarks - Links to more than 20 sites that were viewed in preparation for this podcast

Interview: Dr. Mary Ann Gawelek, Provost, Seton Hill University on "An iPad for Everyone" - Dr. Gawelek tells us about their Griffin Technology Advantage Program and how they prepared their faculty and IT infrastructure to handle iPads and MacBook Pros for all their incoming students.
iPad Apps for Education - selected iPad Apps faculty and students might find useful

GoodReader - read and store Office docs and PDF files
The Elements: A Visual Exploration - the periodic chart comes alive
Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards - navigate through 324 fully annotated images
Molecules 3D - manipulate 3D renderings of molecules; download more from the protein databank
iTunes U on iPad - free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks and more for students
CourseSmart eTextbooks for iPad - rent electronic textbooks

"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: 23:36

YouTube - What Would Google Do? - blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by...
Integrating Google Apps with Blackboard - digitalteacher from the Google Apps community shares 12 ways teachers integrate Google Apps with their Blackboard courses...
Google Rolling Out Richer Web Apps - Google Docs can now handle large spreadsheets with performances that "feel like desktop applications"...
GLADINET - Bringing the Cloud Closer to You - drag and drop folders or an entire drive to quickly transfer thousands of files to Google Docs, Windows Live SkyDrive, or Amazon S3...
Google SketchUp - free software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like and also add them to Google Earth...
YouTube Launches Auto-Captions For All Videos - speech recognition automatically transcribes what’s said in a video...
Google Voice Service - provides a phone number, free of charge. Inbound calls are forwarded to other phone numbers of the subscriber...
Google Buzz - Twitter-like micro-blogging tools linked to your Gmail contacts...
Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs - ask a question, and route survey participants to different survey pages and questions based on their answers...
The Google Apps Update Blog - you can subscribe to this feed to learn about the latest improvements to Google Apps

Google Voice for Students! - late breaking news! All students get a free Google Voice phone number!

Duration: 16:37

Facebook Apps for eLearning - Here is a list of 20 facebook apps for educational use
'Horizon Report' Highlights 6 Technologies to Watch in Education - The open-content movement now joins mobile computing as the two trends most likely to enter mainstream learning in the next year, says the report (40 page PDF), from the New Media Consortium and Educause

Repositioning Higher Education: Factors Driving Online and Blended Program Enrollment - by Kristen Betts, Kenneth Hartman, and Carl Oxholm III, Drexel University

Because of the recent economic downturn, higher education must re-examine and reposition itself to meet new and emerging challenge
Learning on Demand (29 page PDF) - This Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that online enrollment rose by nearly 17 percent from a year earlier

ScrollMotion to Develop iPad E-Books for Major Publishers - ScrollMotion will make textbooks compatible with the new Apple iPad for four major publishers
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - Tablet-style computers bring classroom collaboration and push the adoption of electronic textbooks
Create Your Own iPhone or Android App in Minutes With iSites - iSites is a new service that take an RSS feed and quickly transform it into an iPhone, iPad or Android app

Duration: 26:35