RPP #41: Podcasting News, Microphones and Podsafe Dennen

Topics covered during this 16 minute podcast:

• News from the Podosphere
• Wizzard Media Distributes over 70 Million Podcast Downloads in March
• Pod Stars: Obscure Experts Find Techno Fame
• GT Prof: Students Learn Better Via iPod Versus Lecture

• Podcasting Microphones
• Comparison of audio recordings from 3 microphones
  
• Samson C01U Podcast Recording Pak - the first affordable studio condenser mic ($70-$140) with a direct USB output

• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Ain't No Reason" by Brett Dennen - featured song on May 1st episode of House, the Fox TV show

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

RPP #39: Web 2.0 is Us/ing Us and There's Nothing Impossible

Topics covered during this 12 minute podcast:

• News from the Podosphere
• Success of eLearning 2.0 Conference
• Keynote: Susan Patrick, CEO of the North American Council for Online Learning
• "Second Life and 3-D Virtual Classrooms: Implications and Opportunities for eLearning"
• Dr. Kenneth Hartman - Director of Academic Affairs at Drexel Online
• Don Bain - The Electric Sheep Company
• Kevin Jarrett - The Story of "My Second Life"
• "A New Twist on an Old Learning Tool" - Susan Toth-Cohen & Tracey Vause-Earland, Jefferson College of Health Professions
• "Burst Learning" - Dr. Jeffrey L. Lenow of Podside Consults and Jefferson Medical College
  
• Drexel University Launches Podcast Series to Help Students Succeed in Earning an Online Degree

• Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
• Tech Tops the Pop Charts by David L. Margulius, InfoWorld 03.19.07
• The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University

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

RPP #38: Interview: Dr. Michael Barrett on Heart Sound Podcast and Black Lab

Topics covered during this 21 minute podcast:

• Interview: Dr. Michael Barrett
• Dr. Barrett, a cardiologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, discusses how recordings of heart murmurs helps medical students master cardiac auscultation
• Repitition Helps Med Students Master Heart Sounds, Temple Times, January 26, 2002
• "The Power of Repetition in Mastering Cardiac Auscultation", The American Journal of Medicine (2006) 119, 73-75
• Heart Songs on Cardiosource.com - American College of Cardiology

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