28 Jan, 2008
The National Endowment for the Arts released their study last November, To Read or Not to Read. They cite startling statistics about how time spent reading is on the decline (most significantly among 15 to 24-year-olds, but also among older adults as well). In fact, there was a decline in every age group studied.While good reading and writing skills are of the utmost importance, this study provides more reason to explore new media technologies as additional pedagogical tools to enhance learning for today’s busy, mobile, networked learners.
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28 Jan, 2008
Project New Media Literacies has in interesting whitepaper available for download entitled: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.They discuss new learning paradigms and methods of enabling and empowering students in the classroom to succeed in what they dub our new, “Participatory Culture”. Although their work is mostly geared toward K-12 learners, this work is very inspiring and a worthy read.
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24 Jan, 2008
CAS Academic Technology can lend you an iPod and the Griffin iTalk, as well as an attachable clip-on mic (optional, not required). With this simple solution, you hit the Record button and it captures your audio and saves it as a voice memo on the iPod.
Later, when you sync the iPod to your computer’s iTunes program, these “voice memos” are saved and you can rename and convert them for podcasting.
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24 Jan, 2008
An enhanced podcast includes visuals. While a visual is not always necessary, if you do have a powerpoint lecture there are several ways to capture your lecture as you give it. This will create a video podcast of your voice with your slides. (You can also do this outside of class in a rehearsed manner as well).
Profcast and Keynote work on the Mac, and SnapKast and Camtasia work well on a PC. What equipment do you need to record a slide presentation? Just a microphone, computer, and your slides! If you need help, software, or tools, contact CAS Academic Technology.
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24 Jan, 2008
Audacity is a free program that allows you to record audio and turns that audio into a podcast, which can be shared on a blog, on Blackboard, on iTunes University, and can be played on computers and mp3 players such as iPods. You can download Audacity free; it works on both Macs and PCs.What tools are needed to use Audacity? A computer and a microphone. If you need a mic, contact CAS Academic Technology and we can get you one.
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11 Jan, 2008
This short clip will take you through the basics of using Audacity to create an audio podcast.
Download Video: Posted by <f
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10 Jan, 2008
The video below will take you through more advanced features of Audacity. Be sure to watch the Basics video first. Download Video: Posted by sheehy at TeacherTube.com.
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8 Jan, 2008
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Of interest too is RSS in Plain English below for anyone wanting to understand more about subscribing to blogs and podcasts with RSS:
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