RPP #148: Sway - Interview with Jill Sitnick

• Interview with Jill Sitnick, Technology Strategist, Microsoft
• We discuss Sway, Microsoft's mobile graphic presentation tool. Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories from your browser or smart phone. We discuss:
• What is Sway?

  

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• Is it a Powerpoint replacement?
• Who is the audience?
• Can it be moderated?
• Sway 365 for schools & free consumer Sway
• Sharing and collaboration features
• Integration with third-party services
• Links
• RPP #148 Sway Screencast 
• Microsoft Office Sway
• Microsoft Sway Review (Tech Radar)
• What is Sway? (Youtube)
• What is Sway - Microsoft Sway Tutorials (Youtube)
• Disruptive Trends in the Education Industry (Sway)
• Podsafe music selection 
• 50 Ways to Lose Your Luggage by Robert Lund of the Funny Music Project

Duration: 33:24

RPP #120: TouchCast: Interview with Charley Miller

• Interview with Charley Miller, Head of Product at TouchCast
• TouchCast is a new startup out of bMuse from New York that is reinventing video content creation using touch via the iPad
• We answer the questions:

• What is TouchCast?
• How is it different from other video editors?
• What is a Vapp?
• How do you create and play a TouchCast?
• What is TouchCast Cloud Collaboration?
• Links
• www.touchcast.com
• TouchCast on iTunes
• TouchCast Examples
• Green Screen Augmented Reality 
• Technology to Use in the Classroom
• NEW! TouchCast Cloud Collaboration

• Podsafe music selection from Magnatune
• Vivaldi: Concerto No. 1 in D Major (Spring, 1st Movement) from The Four Seasons by the American Baroque Orchestra.

Duration: 24:54

RPP #108: Mediasite: Interview with Sean Brown

• Interview: Sean Brown, Vice President of Education at Sonic Foundry. Sean has over 17 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education.
• We discuss their Mediasite product including:

• lecture capture in the classroom
• their new product that supports personal recording at the desktop
• faculty and student acceptance
• new uses including flipping the classroom
• support for mobile devices including iPad
• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon"

Duration: 29:08

RPP #107: Ensemble Video: Interview with Scott Nadzan

• Interview: Scott Nadzan, Director of Marketing & Sales for Ensemble Video. Ensemble Video is like an institutional YouTube with the flexibility and controls required in higher education. 
• We answer the questions:

• What is video content management?
• How is it used?
• What formats are supported?
• Why isn’t Youtube good enough?
• Does it work with my LMS?
• Can you use it for iTunes U videos and GoToMeeting recordings?
• Podsafe Music Selection
• "A Passage of Life" by Kitaro

Duration: 25:46

RPP #103: Managing Your Social Media

• News from the Podosphere

• New Podcasts App from Apple liberates audio and video podcasts from iTunes with a dedicated app for iOS
• Integrating your Social Media
• IFTTT (ifttt.com) - "If This Then That", a free service that allows your social media portfolio to inter-operate and save you time. For example, earn how to automatically Tweet each time you post to your blog.
• Other sites mentioned
• bit.ly
• blogger.com
• facebook.com
• linkedin.com    
• pipes.yahoo.com
• ping.fm
• twitter.com

• Podsafe Music Selection from Magnatune
• "Run" from the new age piano album "Lines Build Walls" by Ehren Starks

Duration: 14:38

RPP #98: Mathematica: Interview with Andy Dorsett

• Interview: Andy Dorsett, Academic Key Account Manager, Wolfram Research

• Mathematica is billed as the world's ultimate application for computations, a development platform integrating computation into workflows, moving from initial ideas to deployed solutions
• View interactive Demonstrations in life science and other domains
• Run Wolfram Alpha on mobile devices
• Download the CDF (Computable Document Format) Player to view Mathematica interactive documents  

• Podsafe music selection from Music Alley
• The Christmas Season by Devo Spice, a comedy rapper from New Jersey who has become one of the most popular artists on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show.

Duration: 23:47

RPP #30 Beyond Blackboard, Media Player Guide and Christmas Rap

Topics covered during this 18 minute podcast:

• MP3 & Video Media Player Holiday Shopping Guide (CNET Review Scores)
  
• Microsoft Zune - JUST SAY NO: no podcast support, brown?, "welcome to the social"?, "squirt your music"? (8.0)
  
• High-Capacity Players: $250-$350
  
• Apple iPod - 2.5" Screen, no FM tuner (8.3)
  
• Creative Zen Vision:M - 2.5" Screen, FM tuner, voice recorder (8.0)
• Toshiba Gigabeat MES30VW - 2.4" Screen, Editor's Choice (8.3)
• Mid-Capacity Players: $200-$250
  
• Apple iPod Nano - 1.5" Screen, ultra thin, Editor's Choice (8.3)
  
• iRiver Clix - 2.2" Screen (8.7)
  
• Sandisk Sansa E260 - 1.8" Screen, FM tuner, voice recorder (8.0)
  
• Mini Players: $79-$130
  
• Apple iPod Shuffle - no screen, smallest, clips on clothing (6.3)
  
• Creative Zen V Plus - 1.5" Screen!, Editor's Pick (8.3)
  
• Treo 680 $200-400 If you want a cell phone and Palm organizer too.
  
• The Blackboard Beyond Initiative
• Extend The Platform: Blackboard is establishing a Global Learning Objects Catalog, where any Blackboard user can publish to or search for learning resources to enhance their instructional experience.
• Facilitate Social Networking: The first "property" will be a social bookmarking service like del.icio.us (see RPP #15), but customized for education, and integrated with all of the Blackboard's Learning System products. It will provide users with the tools to evaluate and find educationally valuable resources, and share them within the validated network of Blackboard faculty and students. Other parts of the Initiative include:
  
• Enable Lifelong Learning: Blackboard’s unique "e-Portfolios-for-life" service will allow Blackboard users to post their portfolios to a central site for long-term use.
• Create Data Benchmarking: Blackboard’s collaborative benchmarking service will allow clients to anonymously share relevant data and gain better insight into best practices.
• Podsafe Music Selection
• "The Christmas Season" by Sudden Death from the Podsafe Music Network
• Sudden Death combines hip hop beats with what Dr. Demento calls "some of the funniest hip hop lyrics I've ever heard."