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for March 31, 2006 - Episode 12
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"If I can beg your
pardon, I'm going out to plant a garden,
It'll just be small potatoes, just some lettuce and
tomatoes,
and if anything
comes up I'll join the Grange."
--Martin
Mull
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tomato time |
Even though its still raining off and on, that
springtime urge is upon us. Time to dig up the
ground and plant some stuff. We're feeling
that growing energy in Academic Technology too.
Professors continue to export/import and populate
their summer Blackboard course shells.
Political Economy days are coming next week. We have
all the tech news fit to print (and speak).
Our Blackboard feature of the week is integrating
the discussion board into other course content areas.
Haydn joins us this week for an Online Teaching
feature of the week. So we are covering both
technical and pedagogical aspects of using
technology enhanced teaching. Our
tech-talk-topic is rich media presentation systems.
We looked at apreso classroom this week.
Finally, the gizmo of the week is a cigarette
vending machine RFID system.
Campus Tech News
-
Political Economy Days will be held next week on
Wednesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 6.
Click here for the schedule of live events.
Certain events will be webcast on both Wednesday
and Thursday:
- Our new Blackboard database server is now up
and running, but not live on the production
system yet. We are going to integrate it
into our test environment first, do true test of
various functions, like cookie-based load
balancing and SSL interactions with other system
elements, and data replication schemes.
Then, later in April, move it into the
production environment.
- The Blackboard community portal and content
management system demo we had scheduled for
March 29 had to be moved to April 20. More
on that later...
- David Pogue, the New York Times technology
columnist raved this week about Google Page
Creator, an ultra simple, cool (according to
him) way to create and publish free web sites.
That's free, as in really free, not ad supported
free. The bad news? So many people
applied for this when it was first offered that
Google had to close the service the first day.
Some mitigating news? You can be put on
the wait list. Please note that a gmail
email account is required. (You should
have one anyway. Sign up at
gmail.com).
Click here to get on the waiting list for
Page Creator.
- Palomar College Speech and Debate team joins
debaters from The People's Republic of China in
a formal debate Sunday, April 2, at 6pm in room
P-32. Tickets are $5.
- There is a new "Teaching with Blackboard"
online, facilitated training course beginning
April 24, being provided by the @ONE system.
Click here for details and registration
link.
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@ONE is also sponsoring an Online Teaching
Institute at San Diego City College on June 16,
the day after the institute ends.
The have a
new web site. Attendance can be in
person, or online. In person attendance
carries a $25 fee, and requires immediate
registration, because seats are going quickly.
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The Concert Hour
for APRIL 6 PALOMAR WOMEN’S CHORUS; Karen Bryan,
director; PALOMAR CHAMBER SINGERS, David Chase,
director. The concert hour is at
12:30pm on Thursdays in room D-10, and is also
webcast live. Contact the
performing arts department for more
information.
Upcoming Training Workshops
- Monday, April 3, in room B-8 Jackie-Martin
Klement will be conducting and Excel 3 workshop.
- On Tuesday, April 4, Chris
Norcross will be conducting a Photoshop 2
workshop, titled "Creating Web Graphics Using
Photoshop," from 2-4pm in room LL-109.
- Thursday, April 6, from 8-9am, in room
LL-111, I will be conducting a workshop on RSS.
The title is "RSS: newsreaders, blogs, and
podcasts."
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@ONE and
FCCC have free online eLearning.
Microsoft and
Adobe both have excellent free training
materials online.
- Go to our
training schedule to get the details
Blackboard Feature of the Week - David Gray
This week David discusses integrating Blackboard
discussion boards into other course content areas.
Its easy.
Listen to this segment [mp3 - Play time
= 2:48]
Teaching with Technology - Dr. Haydn Davis
This is Haydn's first installment on what we hope
will be a weekly feature. This week he
addresses the critical question: What makes
for a good online class?
Links
Listen to this segment
[mp3 - Play time
= 13:14]
Tech-Talk-Topic
Rich media presentations
This week we evaluated
apreso classroom from
anystream. Anystream is the maker of
another terrific product called agility, which
is for real-time encoding/streaming of video in
multiple formats. It is used by all the
big broadcasters, and was the engine behind last
summer's Live-8, which I thought was an Internet
milestone.
Apreso is among products known as "rich
media" presentation managers. The idea is
you capture a video windows + vga output + other
content frames, bind them together in a client
windows, and publish the whole thing as
streaming media. It works on a scheduler,
which turns on an encoder/camera/mic/vga input
system in the classroom (assuming the classroom
is hard wired for these things) and records the
lecture with illustrations. Then, it takes
the files, ftps them to their destinations (web
servers, streaming servers, and CMS servers and
creates the links necessary for students to view
them at a later date. A value added
feature is that it also creates an RSS feed,
either in a Blackboard class or in a public web
space, and takes the audio from the lecture and
makes it an mp3 enclosure, making it a podcast.
Students can thenceforth subscribe to the
podcast and receive the audio content
automatically each new lecture.
Apreso has some very interesting features.
It is software only, though, so it remains for
the institution to purchase the parts of the
system that make it go: camera,
microphone, document cameras, etc.
We have looked also at Accordent presenter, a
similar system, but hardware dependent without
as many features; Macromedia Breeze, flash-based
and much too expensive; and MS Producer,
definitely the do-it-yourself solution that
works, but is much too complicated to be widely
used.
Links
Listen to this segment
[mp3 - Play time
= 8:43]
Gizmo of the week
 Age-verifying
cigarette machines. From
engadget we find out about RFI, age verifying
cigarette machines. Leave it to the Japanese:
"In a move that's sure to annoy tobacco-lovers
nationwide, especially underage ones, Japan has
announced that the country's 620,000 cigarette
vending machines will be replaced in 2008 with
models that require an RFID-embedded
age-verification card to release their
delicious-but-deadly wares." Can't buy a smoke from
a machine without a smoker's card "(which,
conveniently, can also be used to pay for your
habit)."
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/31/japan-to-roll-out-age-verifying-cigarette-machines/
It sounds like a sure source of extra income for
smoking adults.
Music
 The
music for today's show was provided by
Magnatune.com, and is used through their
Creative Commons license for podcasts. Today's
album was
Human Needs by
Barbara Leoni, a graduate with honors of the
Guitar Institute of Technology. Bio bit: "Her
soulful and expressive guitar playing and singing
reflect her diverse influences."
We used tracks
5: "Human Needs"; 4: "Waterfall"; 8: "Ring
Around the Rosie"; 6: "Haunted"; 3: "Another Time";
2: "Demons"; and 1: "Don't Rain on My Parade." Visit
magnatune and reward them for their generosity.
Magnatune is not evil!
"Originality
is the fine art of remembering what you hear but
forgetting where you heard it."
--Laurence J.
Peter
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