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Academic Technology Podcasts
May 28, 2010. Number 114. This month we have news of the official IS adoption policy on Windows 7 and Office 2010; News of ATRC fall 2010 training, specifically workshops, Blackboard 9 training, and summer and winter tech camps; information on preparing your summer Blackboard course shells, evaluating your just-delivered spring online classes, and a host of What's New articles on Office 2010. April 30, 2010. Number 113. Our theme this month is "Summer Tech Camp." If you are a Palomar College faculty member, join us this summer, August 3-6, for a fun, educational tour that will provide you with knowledge of the latest technology tools and how to use them by creating a brief "teaching talk" similar to the famous TED talks. Sign up by emailing the PD office: pdoffice@palomar.edu. The PD Office will confirm with you via email in May. Click here to find out more. March 31, 2010. Number 112. Our theme this month is "Technology Planning." If you have not already participated in a planning Q&A session with the Technology Master Plan 2016 committee (yes, 2016) you will soon. You will also be receiving email questionnaires seeking responses to tech-related queries. We encourage you to let us know what you want and what you think about the use of technology in education. Your input will be a valuable part of the plan we have begun to write.February 26, 2010. Episode 111 (40:43). Our theme this month is "Call for Videos." We have adopted a new streaming technology based on Microsoft Smoothstreaming and the Silverlight player. The good news: Better looking and more secure online videos. The bad news: All videos need to be re-encoded. Bring your videos in for re-encoding. Videos on the current media server will continue to play through the end of this calendar year (12/31/10). After that, they will not play. Act now to bring in your videos for re-encoding to guarantee uninterrupted service. Click here for more information. We will be doing a 2-hour workshop on Google Earth on Tuesday, March 2. Google has added a "nearby sites" feature to Google Earth buildings; Amazon is the most trusted brand in the US; Google explains, publicly, how to use Google Voice; we link a dozen great free online video lecture sites; Google adds a location filter to Search; how to keep YouTube videos private; and Apple shareholders vote to reject environmental measures. Click here for the news items linked from the newsletter. January 29, 2010. Episode 110 (1:01:13). This is our first podcast of 2010, and the first with our new format. What we are doing now is recording three separate audio files during the month, and then “rolling them up” into a monthly podcast at the end of the month. The three separate podcasts will be produced in the context of three blogs that we maintain: 1) David Gray’s Blackboard for Faculty blog; 2) Dr. Haydn Davis’ Teaching with Technology blog; and 3) my own Tech Talk Topic blog. I encourage you to subscribe to each of these. Subscribing to this present blog will insure that you receive the podcast and the brief notes we produce here. For more details, read and subscribe to our newsletter. The “rollup” podcast that appears here contains audio produced earlier in the month, and other materials added on the day of production. |
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