Category: Multimedia
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Textcast
What do you do when you are walking, jogging, driving, or just generally commuting? If you are like most Americans, you are listening to something whether it be an iPod, the radio, a walkman, or Zune. What you listen to can vary greatly, but you probably aren’t listening to that cool web site you found…
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Bryan comes through again
Hmmm. So Liberal Education Today had a post about Web 2.0 technologies used in a class. This post was particularly interesting because the tools were used in the context of Moodle. Also of great interest was the use of Jing and Screencast. Screencast looks to be too expensive for campus use, but I’m going to…
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Timeline 3D, why haven’t I heard of this before?
Actually, I feel stupid for not thinking that there might be faculty that want to create timeline presentations. You can see some examples at Bee Docs’ Web site. I can totally see art history, history, or any presentations where the timing of events is important for understanding the overall story finding a use for software…
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What can you communicate in 60 seconds?
My news feeds brought me a little tidbit today from Apple. The story that caught my attention was about 60 second lectures. The University of Pennsylvania is featured in the story but this is similar to projects that we had students do to emulate NPR stories. The idea is to pick a short time frame…
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iPhone educational apps (part 2)
After many hours of waiting with a bricked iPhone (like many others), I was able to get the 2.0 software loaded and download some apps. I’ll give you some of my initial impressions. Molecules: Molecules seems like it could be a nice app to have available in a class where you want students to get…