RPP #152: The Future of Education: A Scenario

• Rod illustrates a scenario he wrote as part of a strategic planning process on the future of education at the University of the Sciences.
• The scenario illustrates one future of education. As we all know, technology is increasing at an exponential rate. Self driving cars, facial recognition, virtual-reality, augmented reality and 3D printing are extant today, but will be integrated into everyday life within 5 to 10 years, whether we like it or not. The interesting thing about the scenario is that each one of the technological advances illustrated here can be demonstrated in isolation today. Who knows where we will actually be in 5 to 10 years!
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• Links
• Read on Medium
• Apple Watch
• Apple AirPods
• Ring Doorbell
• Amazon Drone 
• GM - Lyft
• Google Luxotica
• Google Translate
• Coursera Credit Badges
• Ultrahaptics
• Toshiba Customer Service Robot
• The Great A.I. Awakening (Google Machine Learning)
  
• Podsafe Music Selection
• Synth Pop Echos by Rod Murray using Jukedeck - create your own at https://jukedeck.com.

Duration: 09:48 audio & 10:42 video

RPP #130: Learn to Code

• Rod discusses why he thinks everyone should learn to code. 
• I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think. - Steve Jobs
• Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. - Bill Gates
• Don’t just play on your phone - program it. - President Obama
• We answer the questions:

  

  Rod with his TRS-80 circa 1977

• Why am I interested in coding?
• Why do I think that everyone should learn how to code?
• What's the best approach to start learning how to code?

• Learn the Basics
• How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition - Good programming requires thought, but everyone can do it and everyone can experience the extreme satisfaction that comes with it. 
• Google CE First - K-8 Computer Science Club program from Google.
• Google Computer Science for High School - Google grant program to teach K-12 science teachers how to program and bring it to their students.
• Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding

• Should All Majors, Not Just Computer Science Majors, Learn to Code?
• Why You Should Learn To Code (And How To Actually Do It!) 
• 9 coding schools higher ed should keep an eye on
• 10 Places where anyone can learn to code

• Learn Coding
• Bento - A guided tour through curated, free coding tutorials on the web.
• Code.org - Offers a number of excellent free beginner’s tutorials for learning how to code.
• Code Academy - Learn to code in HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python and Ruby on Rails for free.
• Code School - Learn By Doing. No setup. No hassle. Just learning.
• Girls Who Code - To inspire, educate, and equip girls with computing skills.
• Khan Academy - Program drawings, animations, games and web pages.
• SkillCrush - Become a Ruby-on-Rails developer.
• Thinkful - With 1-on-1 mentorship from industry experts.
• Udemy - Your place to learn real world skills online.
• w3Schools - Teach yourself for free.

• Build Mobile Apps
• Appcelerator
• BuzzTouch
• MIT App Inventor
• Xamarin
  
• Links
• www.PharmPCS.com - The author's pharmacology calculation software. 

• Podsafe Music Selection 
• There's nothing impossible by Deus, a techno-classical musician from the Ivory Coast.

Duration: 20:58

RPP #86: What Has Google Done? Free Google Voice for Students and more!

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• 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!
  

• Podsafe Music Selection
• Comcast Connection Blues by Derek K. Miller from Music Alley

Duration:  16:37

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
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• 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

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Duration: 20:17

RPP #75: Interview with Dr. John Flores of the United States Distance Learning Association

• Rod's Picks from Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• 7 Real Reasons Why iPhone Is a Smash Hit
• Twitter Fastest-Growing Social Networking Site
• Case Settled: Google To Become Bookseller

• Interview with Dr. John Flores, Executive Director of the United States Distance Learning Association
• National Distance Learning Week: November 10 - 14, 2008
• Distance learning is green!
• The mobile learning trend
  
• Free Online Events: USDLA webinars

• Podsafe Music Selection from Magnatune
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the haunting new age viola album "Winter Moon" which stayed in the top 50 on the New Age Reporter charts for an entire year and was nominated for four Lifestyle Music Awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist
  

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Duration: 25:55

RPP #72: Blackboard World Interview: Wimba Collaboration Suite, and more Yael Naim

• Rod's Picks from Podcaster Guide & E-Learning News
• The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed - Interview of Stewart Mader who discusses use of the wiki as a teaching tool
• Google Insights for Search - new Google tool to research search terms such as 'podcasting' used over time
• The Rise of Android - a new open source mobile operating system spearheaded by Google; gPhone not an iPhone yet
• Podcamp Philly, the New Media Unconference, will be held on September 6th and 7th at Temple University
  

• Interview: Matthew Wasowski, Director of Customer Programs, Wimba
  
• Learn about the Wimba Collaboration Suite, e-learning tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning
• Collaborative tools including, podcasting, content authoring, instant messaging
  
• Unique applications: vocal discussion board and virtual classroom with "follow the speaker video"
  
• Works with course management systems such as Angel, Blackboard, Desire to Learn, Moodle, and Sakai
  

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

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RPP #70: Blackboard World Interview: Blending Blackboard and Second Life, and Podsafe Summertime

• News from the Podosphere
• Blackboard World '08 - Las Vegas, July 15-17, 2008

• Rod's Podcaster Guide & E-Learning News
• Lively - Google's new Second Life killer
• Knol - Google's new Wikipedia killer

• Blending Blackboard and Second Life

• Interview with Mauri Collins, DEd, Instructional Designer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
• Dr. Collins is also an adjunct assistant professor at Boise State University, where she co-teaches an innovative course: Teaching and Learning in Second Life. She has been involved with computer-mediated communication since 1987 and worked in distance education since 1992.
• Her presentation shared teacher and learner experiences for those who plan to teach using Second Life.
  
• Second Life and Learning Spaces
• "it's not just pixels on a screen"
• "Testicle in the Sky" (Slurl) by DrDoug Pennell (SL) aka Dr. Douglas R. Danforth of Ohio State University
• "Prim" - primitives, basic building blocks in SL

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

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Duration: 24:22

RPP #53: National Distance Learning Week Interview Part 1: Ken Hartman

• Elluminate now sponsors Rod's Pulse Podcast
• Get a FREE personal vRoom web conferencing account!

• News from the Podosphere
• Google Presentations, Gphone Rumors and Google OpenSocial
• Podcamp EDU - November 10, American University, Washington, DC

• National Distance Learning Week (November 12-16) - Interview Part 1
  
• Dr. Ken Hartman, NDLW National Committee Chair and Academic Director, Drexel Online
• Sloan Conference on Online Learning
• You Only Live Twice: Making the Most of Second Life in Education
• Distance Education on the 'MUVE'

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Midnight" by singer/song writer Adrina Thorpe - Influenced by Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, and Coldplay

Duration: 19:29

RPP #49: News, iPhone in Higher Education and Podsafe Black Lab

• Elluminate now sponsors Rod's Pulse Podcast
• Get a FREE personal vRoom web conferencing account!
  
• News from the Podosphere
• Medical Education
• Distributed Learning Expands Med School's Reach
• Commonwealth Medical College and the Ideal Medical School
• Lehigh University's Open Virtual Classroom
• EduGeek Journal
• An online community promoting educational technology through a blog and podcast
• Google Presentations Finally Launched
• Mobile Phones & PDAs in Education
  
• New Lower Price Turns iPhone into a Hit
• T-mobile is iPhone partner in Germany
• Rapid Adoption (see RPP#40 )
• University Explores iPhone in Higher Education
• Cell Phone: Ink-free Printing from Zink Imaging

• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "See the Sun" by Black Lab from California with tunes featured in the movies "Spider Man" and "Blade: Trinity"

Duration: 16:38

RPP #26: Report from Educause and Podcasting with Blackboard

Topics covered in this 19 minute podcast:

• News From Educause 2006, Dallas Texas
  • Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
  • Photos from Educause via Flickr
  • Google Bought YouTube
  • Google Apps for Education
  • Google Partnering with Blackboard
    
    • Building Block for Google Scholar: enables instructors to: construct queries for their students to execute in Google Scholar, and browse Google Scholar from within their course environment and contextually add content directly from Google Scholar into their course with a single click.
    • Building Block for Google OneBox : enables institutions who use Google Search appliances to add OneBox modules which search information within the Blackboard Academic suite and combine the results from Blackboard with the results from the appliance.
      
• Podcasting with Blackboard
  
  • Interview: Hal Herzog, VP of Product Development, Learning Objects, Inc.
  • More on the Podcast LX Building Block
• Podsafe Country Song
• Heartaches & Roses by Karmyn Tyler from the Podsafe Music Network