RPP #84: Season's Greetings and a Happy 2010

• Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year from Rod's Pulse Podcast

• Podsafe Holiday Music Selections from Music Alley
• "The Christmas Season" by Sudden Death - combines hip hop beats with what Dr. Demento calls "some of the funniest hip hop lyrics I've ever heard"
• "Jingle Bells" by Natalie Brown - soulful vocalist/songwriter with a dynamic, multi-ocatave vocal range
• "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Twisted Sister - yes, that hard rock group from the '70s
• "A Soldier's Christmas" by Jay Goeppner - a Chicago singer/songwriter who has shared his message of peace and love in the style of his hero, John Lennon
• "If Every Day Were Christmas" by Podsafe for Peace - Buy the song for 99 cents and all the proceeds will go to UNICEF
  

Duration: 22:03

RPP #83: E-Readers: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf (Part 2)

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• The Complete Guide to Google Wave - Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help...
• Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom - Some professors--especially those who teach in large lecture halls--have come to embrace social networking as an instructional aid....
• Diigo - Like Delicious and Digg but better, with web highlighting, sticky notes, and annotation.

• Interview (Part 2) on E-Readers with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University: 
• Amazon Kindle
  
• Sony E-Reader
• Plastic Logic
  
• E-Ink - originator of electronic ink technology used in most e-book readers
  
• Barnes & Noble Nook

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon" which was nominated for four Lifestyle Music Awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

Duration: 26 min

RPP #82EP: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Bonus Enhanced Podcast formatted for viewing in iTunes or iPods.
See RPP #82 post below for details.

RPP #82: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Note: This is a standard audio-only mp3 podcast.
See RPP #82EP above for Enhanced Podcast.

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Internet Archive: A Future for Books - BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow books, just like search to find Web sites.
• An E-Textbook Program Aims to Benefit Students and Professors - Professors create digital textbooks bringing prices down from their average cost of $100 to a much more moderate $15.
• Embracing Electronic Textbooks - Electronic textbooks offer convenience for professors, who can easily review a new textbook online, then make a quick decision to include it in a course.
  

• Interview on E-Textbooks with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University
  
• CourseSmart - benefit from instant access to the largest single source of electronic textbooks available anywhere
• Connexions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses and books
• Flat World Knowledge - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards are free to read online
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Stress" (song and flash animation) by highly caffeinated Jim Infantino of the band, Jim's Big Ego. Buy at Amazon

Duration: 23:25