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 #142: 10th Anniversary Edition - Podcasting 101

In this special 10th Anniversary Edition, Rod highlights some of the more interesting aspects of podcasting history, his particular podcasting story and gives tips on how to do your own podcast.

Brief History of Podcasting

• Birth of the iPod
• Apple iPod History
• Adam Curry's Daily Source Code
• Steve Jobs Introduces Podcasting at the D3 Conference
• Podcasting Historical Timeline & Milestones

• RPP #1 - Rod's First Podcast 

Podcasting 101 

Podcasting Concept Map

• Listening to podcasts
• iTunes (OS X & Windows)
• Google Play Store Podcasts
• Podcasts App by Apple
• Best iOS Podcast Apps
• Best Android Podcast Apps
• Other Podcatchers
• Rod's Favorite Podcasts
• On the Media from NPR
• This Week in Tech
• The 5 Best eLearning Podcasts
• Teaching in Higher ED
• Creating a podcast
• Choosing a Microphone
• Samson Podcasting Kit
• Other USB Condenser Mics (Amazon)
• Finding "podsafe music"
• Magnatune
• 17 Places to Find Podsafe Music
• Editing your audio file
• NPR's John Solomon: Pulling Back the Curtain
• Audacity for Mac
• Audacity for Windows
• GarageBand for Mac
• Windows Alternatives to GarageBand
• The Levelator
• Hosting your audio file
• Libsyn.com
• Blubrry.com
• Hosting your show notes
• Blogger
• WordPress
• Enhancing your RSS Feed for iTunes
• Feedburner 
• Submitting your podcast for distribution
• iTunes
• Google Play
• Other Resources
• 7 Things you should know about Podcasting (PDF)
• How to Publish your own Podcast on iTunes

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• On a Podcast by Cruisebox

Duration: 32:17

RPP #101: Starfish Retention Solutions: Interview with David Yaskin

• Interview: David Yaskin, CEO and Founder of Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc.

• Learn about the Starfish enterprise student success and retention platform. We discuss Starfish CONNECT and Starfish EARLY ALERT, how they interface with the LMS and SIS, and how you can measure your return on investment.
  
• Podsafe music selection from Magnatune
• Concerto No.1 in D Major (Spring) - First Movement by the American Baroque Orchestra. The full CD entitled "The Four Seasons by Vivaldi" is available at magnatune.com

Duration: 26:49

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 #68: Better Chemistry through E-Learning and more Yael Naim

• News from the Podosphere
• Dr. Ken Hartman (Drexel University) wins USDLA Award

• Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University
• Drexel CoAS E-Learning Blog
• Drexel CoAS E-Learning Podcast
• Drexel Island on Second Life
• Useful Chemistry - Open source project in chemistry
  
• Open Notebook Science using Blogs and Wikis
• Teaching Chemistry with Second Life
• Other topics and tools mentioned:
• Audacity - free audio editing tool
• Blogger - free blog service
• Camtasia Studio - screen recorder
• Creative Commons - licenses for authors, artists, and educators
• Feedburner - manage RSS feeds and track subscribers
• Second Life - a 3D virtual world
• SMILES - for describing chemical molecules
• WikiSpaces - free Wiki service

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

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Duration: 26:08

RPP #67: The CaffiNation Podcast Interview and Stress

• News from the Podosphere
• Top 12 Free University Podcasts - from LearnOutLoud.com
• Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Universities in the World - from the Online Education Database
  
  
• The CaffiNation Podcast - Interview with Paul Rj Muller, Podcaster and Technologist
• Learn about his podcast on caffeine culture, technology news and podcasting tips
• Products and Sites Mentioned
• Audacity - free audio recording and editing software
• Blubrry - a podcast network for listeners
• Castblaster - podcast software
• iTunes U - Apple's free podcast hosting service
• Jazler - podcast software
• PodCamp - the "unconference" for podcasters
• Samson C01U USB condenser microphone
• Tech Podcast Network - community dedicated to the promotion Internet technology
• Temple Tech Tips - Paul's Tech Blog at Temple University
• uStream - Conference call service and Webcast
• Zoom H4 Handy Recorder

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Stress" (flash animation) by highly caffeinated Jim Infantino of the band, Jim's Big Ego
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Duration: 25:27

RPP #56: Interview: Peter Van Tienen on Equella and Podsafe New Age

• News from the Podosphere
• Amazon Announced Kindle - Guy Kawasaki's Blog
• Welcome to the Social - Podcasting for Freshmen - Pete Juvinall, Illinois State University
  
• Interview: Peter Van Tienen, Vice President of Business Development, The Learning Edge North America
• EQUELLA, a digital repository that incorporates learning objects, learning content management, and integrated content authoring. To learn more about EQUELLA, visit www.equella.com.

• View Equella repositories using guest access:
• Florida's K20 Digital Repository
• British Columbia's Shareable Online Learning Resources
  

• Podsafe Music from Magnatune
• "Something About Eve" by Falling You. Ethereal ambient new age music from magnatune.com.

Duration: 33:04

RPP #51: Supplemental Podcasting and Podsafe Music

• Elluminate now sponsors Rod's Pulse Podcast
• Get a FREE personal vRoom web conferencing account!
  
• News from the Podosphere
• National Distance Learning Week (November 12-16) - Mark your calendars!
• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
• Online Universities Weblog
• Podcasting's Three Realms (Continued)
  
• Review and commentary on "Podcasting, A Teaching with Technology White Paper" by Ashley Deal, Carnegie Mellon University
• Delivery of Lecture Archives (see RPP #50 )
  
• Delivery of Supplemental Content
  
• Pre-recorded mini-lectures
• See RPP #26: Interview: Hal Herzog, VP of Product Development, Learning Objects
  
• Listening Exercises
• See RPP #38: Interview: Dr. Michael Barrett, Dept of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine
• Student Podcasting Assignments (coming in RPP #52)
• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "50 Ways to Lose Your Luggage" by Robert Lund of the Funny Music Project
  

Duration: 15:29

RPP #47: PodCamp Philly and Podsafe McCartney

• Elluminate now sponsors Rod's Pulse Podcast
• Welcome my new sponsor and get a FREE personal vRoom web conferencing account!
• Hear Dr. Tony Frisby discuss Elluminate on RPP #24

• PodCamp Philly
• Hosted at Drexel University
• September 7, 8 and 9, 2007

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Blake Morgan who's successes as a recording artist, as well as a producer, have paired him with Lenny Kravitz, Lesley Gore, Mike Errico, Phil Ramone, Terry Manning, and others. This specially licensed podsafe remake of the McCartney classic has recently topped the charts on the iTunes Music Store.
  

Duration: 11:40

RPP #46: Podcasting 101 Second Edition and Podsafe Music

• News from the Podosphere
• Popularity of Online Universities Rising
• e-Learning Market to hit $52.6 Billion by 2010
• Blackboard Greenhouse Initiative

• Podcasting 101 Second Edition
• 7 Things you should know about Podcasting (PDF) by Educause Learning Initiative
• Podcast Directories
• Apple iTunes Podcast Directory
• Yahoo Podcast Directory
• Listening Tools
• Juice Podcast Receiver
• No iPod Required
• Media Player Shopping Guide from RPP #30
• Production Tools
• Audacity
• Castblaster
• Podsafe Music (music.podshow.com, www.magnatune.com)
• Institutional Podcasting Tools
• Learning Objects Podcast LX Interview: Hal Herzog from RPP #26
• Apreso Classroom Interview: Geoff Allen, Chairman and Founder from RPP #27
• Publication & Delivery Tools
• Blogger
• Feedburner
• Podcasting Concept Map (PDF) by Rod
• Rod's del.icio.us Tags

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "On a Podcast" by Cruisebox

Duration: 21:03

RPP #43: Blackboard Support, Top Six Reasons to Podcast and Podsafe Mamas and Papas

Topics covered during this 15 minute podcast:

• Blackboard Faculty Support Group
• Podcast/Blog by Bill Vilberg - Associate Director of Instructional Advancement, University of Miami
• In Bill's interview with Carolyn Thomas, Blackboard Academic Program Manager at UT Austin, she tells how they are planning to use Second Life
• Rod will be contributing to Bill's presentation on "Sharing Our Knowledge: The BbFS Podcast Series" at the upcoming Blackboard World '07 in Boston this July
  

• The Top Six Reasons to Podcast at a University
• Podcast/Blog by Jeffrey Frey - with a Focus on Podcasting Technology Questions
• Jeff is the Web Services Manager for Enterprise Applications in the Information Technology Department at Rice University and provides technology solutions for faculty, staff and students
  

• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "California Dreamin" by The Mamas and The Papas
• It’s been 40 years since the Monterey International Pop Festival launched the world into the "Summer of Love", and helped to boost the careers of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Ravi Shankar, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and of course, The Mamas and The Papas
  

RPP #37: RPP Anniversary, News, eLearning 2.0 and Stress

Topics covered during this 16 minute podcast:

• RPP 1st Anniversary
  
• University Podcasting
  
• Universities Ramp Up Podcast Offerings - by Jon Gordon, Future Tense, American Public Media
• A Taste of Harvard at iTunes U - Business Wire
  
  
• Blackboard Blogs & Podcasts
  
• Blackboard @ the University of Bristol
  
• Blackboard Briefing Podcast - University of Southampton, UK
• oddIT: the British Computer Society podcast
  
  
• Podcasting Tools
  
• PodPuppy Podcast Receiver
  
  
• eLearning 2.0 Conference
  
  • 1st Annual Regional eLearning 2.0 Conference to be hosted at Drexel University
  • Thursday, March 29, 2007
  • See http://www.eLearning-2.org for more information.

• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Stress" by Jim's Big Ego