RPP #89: Social Media in Education

• Social Media Resources
• Rod's Annotated Bookmarks for over 80 Social Media links
• Faculty Social Media Survey by Pearson Learning
• Pressible: Columbia University's Social Network for Educational Content
• Vialogues: Columbia University's Social Media site for Video

• Interview:  Brian Hughes, Associate Director of Design, Publishing, and Service at Teachers College's Library of Columbia University. We address the questions...
• What are the best ways to use social media for novice faculty?
• Has it been shown that using social media improves learning?
• What is the best way to prepare faculty to use social media for teaching?

• Podsafe music selection from Music Alley
• "From the Beginning" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, from their "Then & Now" Live 1998 Album

Duration: 23:38

RPP #88: Wimba, Elluminate and Blackboard Collaborate

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Follow Rod's e-learning news sources and his Delicious bookmarks
  

• Interview:  Matthew Wasowski, Senior Manager of Customer Programs, Blackboard Collaborate

• Learn about industry leading tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning. Matthew discusses Wimba Classroom, Pronto and Wimba Voice and how these products and Elluminate will be combined in the upcoming Blackboard Collaborate, due this summer.
  

• Podsafe music selection from Ioda Promonet
• Laura Sullivan plays "Pachelbel For The Potomac" from "Pianoscapes For The Trails Of North America"
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Duration: 21:42

RPP #87: Special iPad in Education Edition

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Rod's Delicious iPad Bookmarks - Links to more than 20 sites that were viewed in preparation for this podcast
  
  

• Interview: Dr. Mary Ann Gawelek, Provost, Seton Hill University on "An iPad for Everyone" - Dr. Gawelek tells us about their Griffin Technology Advantage Program and how they prepared their faculty and IT infrastructure to handle iPads and MacBook Pros for all their incoming students.
  
  
• iPad Apps for Education - selected iPad Apps faculty and students might find useful
• GoodReader - read and store Office docs and PDF files
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration - the periodic chart comes alive
• Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards - navigate through 324 fully annotated images
• Molecules 3D - manipulate 3D renderings of molecules; download more from the protein databank
• iTunes U on iPad - free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks and more for students
• CourseSmart eTextbooks for iPad - rent electronic textbooks
  
  

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

Duration:  23:36

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