RPP #158: StudyTree - Interview with Ethan Keiser

• Interview with Ethan Keiser, CEO of StudyTree
• We discuss how StudyTree integrates academic support services with artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile automated academic assistant. StudyTree analyzes students’ grades and behavioral patterns to construct customized recommendations to improve their academic performance. 

  

  Ethan Keiser, CEO
• We answer the questions:
• How does the StudyTree app work?
• How is AI used in the app?
• How does it work with STEM and Humanities?
• How do you form cooperative study groups?
• How does it compare to live coaching?
• How does it integrate with the LMS?
• Who is using it now?
• What is the ROI for the student/institution

• Podsafe Music Selection
• Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Duration: 34:23

RPP #96 Terribly Clever Blackboard Mobile: Interview with Aaron Wasserman

• Interview: Aaron Wasserman, Director, Blackboard Mobile
• Aaron is one of the founding members of Terriblyclever Design. Terriblyclever worked with Stanford to conceptualize iStanford, a suite of iPhone, Blackberry, and mobile web applications for fellow students. In 2009 they were acquired by Blackboard and Aaron now leads the new Blackboard Mobile division. We'll try to answer the questions:

• what is Blackboard Mobile?
• which platforms are supported?
• what are the benefits to an institution?
• why is a native app better than a web app?
• can you customize apps for your platform?
• what’s on the future road-map for Bb Mobile?
• Podsafe music selection from Music Alley
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Blake Morgan. His licensed cover of the Paul McCartney classic has topped the charts on the iTunes Music Store. 

Duration: 22:49

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 #63: Tegrity Campus 2.0, iPhone SDK and Podsafe Piano

• News from the Podosphere
• Apple iPhone Software Development Kit
• Gizmodo Review
• Apple SDK Site
  

• Tegrity Campus 2.0 - Interview with Isaac Segal, President & CEO, Tegrity Inc.

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

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Duration: 27:05

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 #40: Mobile Phones for e-Learning and Emergency Broadcasts

Topics covered during this 23 minute podcast were prompted by the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech:

• Mobile Phones in Education - Cell phones as Web 2.0 tools
  
• Google's Mobile Browser - Google and LG will preinstall Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger on a wide variety of LG phones
• Mobile Phones: Time-to-adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years - from The Horizon Report (a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative) a research-oriented effort that identifies and describes emerging technologies having an impact on teaching and learning

• SMS - Short Messaging System - This Wikipedia article explains the technology that allows the sending of "short" (160 characters or less) text messages
  

• New Phone Technologies Can Help Colleges Communicate Campuswide in Emergencies - This Chronicle of Higher Education article will be available to non-subscribers for up to five days

• Mobile Phone (SMS and Voice) Messaging Services
• Click-a-Tell
  
• Code Red
  
• e2campus
• Group2Call - specializes in voice and sms messaging
  
• Mobile Campus
• Omnilert
  
• Rave Wireless
  
• Roam Secure - used by Alert Philadelphia
• Vontoo - specializes in voice messaging

• Twitter - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: "What are you doing?"
  
• Twitter and the Virginia Tech Emergency - Blog entry about new uses for Twitter, including the use in emergency situations

• Podsafe Music Selections from Magnatune
• Concerto No. 4 in G Minor (Winter) by the American Baroque Orchestra. The full CD entitled "The Four Seasons by Vivaldi" is available at magnatune.com