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 #42: Interview: ClassTop for Blackboard and Podsafe ELP

Topics covered during this 22 minute podcast:

• News from the Podosphere
• Resident E-Learning: Podcasting Makes the Rounds at USC Medical School
• USC Family Medicine Podcasts

• ClassTop for Blackboard: Interview with Jared Allgood, Co-Founder of ClassTop Inc.
  
• ClassTop is a desktop application to help instructors more easily organize and manage course content and communication in Blackboard.
  
  
• Podsafe Music Selections from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• From Then & Now CD: live performance from ELP's '97/'98 Tour

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