RPP #29 Blackboard Content System Interview; "Donkeys and Elephants"

Topics covered during this 22 minute podcast:

• Podosphere News
• Podcasting with Blackboard
• Google Docs
  
• Bb Content System Background
  
  • Executive Summary (Source: pheWork Blog)
  • Content System Demo Movie 17 minutes (Source: Blackboard)
  • Bb World '06 Interview: Peter Van Tienen, Director, Solutions Engineering, Blackboard Inc. (Source: RPP #5)
    
• Bb Content System Interview: Paul Erickson, Academic Technology & Middleware Coordinator, Information Services, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Topics discussed include:
• Roll-out and training
• Xythos WebDav
• ePortfolios and eReserves


• Podsafe Music
• "Donkeys & Elephants" by Gecko 3 from the Podsafe Music Network

RPP #28 Slidecasting, Blackboard User Groups and Pod People

Topics covered during this 15 minute podcast:

• Podosphere News
  • Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Medicine Podcast - Rob Williams, Principle Nuclear Medicine Technologist, Guy's and St. Thomas NHS Trust, London UK
  • Note Pods - Like "Cliff Notes" for your iPod
  • "The RSS Revolution: Using Blogs and Podcasts to Distribute Learning Content" - presented at SLATE, the Midwest Blackboard Users Group by Jason Rhode, Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, Northern Illinois University
    • Slide Show
    • Audio
      
  • Web 2.0 Tool
    • SlideShare - Another Web 2.0 social network -- like YouTube for your PowerPoint slides
    
    
• Blackboard Users Groups
  
  • Philadelphia Area Blackboard User's Group
  • Dr. Kenneth E. Hartman, Director of Academic Affairs, Drexel e-Learning, Inc.
    
  • Craig Laird, Coordinator, Instructional Design, Drexel e-Learning, Inc.
  • Blackboard User Groups - List of Bb User Groups, national and international
  • Blackboard Connections - A central hub where Bb users can collaborate and share best practices

• "Podcasting & Web 2.0: Implications for Health Care Education" (via SlideShare)
  • Also discussed on RPP #22 Podcasting 101 and Implications for Health Care

• Podsafe Music
  • "Pod People Taking Over" by [munk] from the Podsafe Music Network

RPP #27 Educause Interview: Apreso CourseCaster and Comcast Connection Blues

Topics covered during this 23 minute podcast:

• Podosphere News
• Professors, Students Want More University Podcasts
• Podcasting at the University of Connecticut: Enhancing the Educational Experience
• Denver Surgeon Podcasts Pediatric Surgery
• Podcasting Tool
• The Levalator - Adjusts audio levels within a podcast for variations from one speaker to the next

• Educause Interview: Geoff Allen, Chairman and Founder of Anystream Inc.
  • Classroom capture; use in distance learning
  • Apreso Podcast
  • Apreso CourseCaster
• Podsafe Music
• Comcast Connection Blues from the Podsafe Music Network

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