Thursday, August 30, 2007

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Remember the RSS Feed YouTube video I showed during the Institute? The same person has created a tutorial on social bookmarking. I'm sharing it with you for two reasons. First, it is a very persuasive piece on using social bookmarks. Second, it shows once again the best practice of organizing content for viewers (one of our jobs in audio and/or video podcasting).



What do you think? Are you using del.icio.us?

Bibliography

I promised to compile a bibliography on podcasting and here are a few of my favorites (with links to Amazon):

  • Podcasting Bible by Steve Mack and Mitch Ratcliffe, Wiley Pub., 2007. 978-0-470-04352-3. This is an excellent introduction to all aspects of audio and video podcasting.
  • Podcasting for Teachers by Kathleen P. King and Mark Gura, IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2007. 978-1-59311-659-0. This is geared towards K12 but it emphasizes instructional design and also provides examples of student projects.
  • Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson, Corwin Press, 2006. 1-4129-2767-6. Lots of excellent ideas in this book and a chapter on getting started with RSS.
  • Hands-On-Guide to Video Blogging & Podcasting by Lionel Felix and Damien Stolarz, Focal Press, 2006. 978-0-240-80831-4. Another good overview of podcasting, vodcasting and blogging.
Rick's recommendation is:
  • Audio in Media by Stanley Allen, Wadsworth Pub., 2007. 978-0495095682

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Julius Armstrong

Julius and Sally Green worked together to create "Radcasts" - a new series of podcasts for their Radiation Therapy students.

Project links:

Michael Caldero

This is a placeholder for Michael's project.

Jeff Curtis

My name is Jeff Curtis and I have taught diesel equipment technology at Bellingham Technical College for 14 years. My interests include student learning and how we can include the use of technology to promote that learning.

We are both blessed and cursed at BTC. The blessing is that we have such a forward thinking faculty and supportive administration to adapt to new technologies. We are cursed because there really isn’t an organized support network for others to access.

Project link: Essential autoshop101.com navigation (1:56 minutes)

Carol Forte

Carol is a career consultant in the Center for Career Connections at Bellevue Community College. She is also an instructor in the Arts & Humanities Division and teaches a course on learning portfolio fundamentals. In this course, she will be teaching an eportfolio system in addition to the process of portfolio development to students enrolled in the elementary education transfer degree program.

Carol teaches a non-credit career development course called Building a New Career & Life in Continuing Education Division. Her podcasting plans include: creating podcasts for the career center as a way of introducing basic career-related topics, such as choosing a career, finding a job, describing our services,or announcing career events on campus; creating podcasts to supplement her course materials on portfolio development; and creating podcasts to supplement her course materials in her career development course.

Project links:

Sally Green

Julius Armstrong and Sally worked together to create "Radcasts" - a new series of podcasts for their Radiation Therapy students.

Project files:

Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes has been a computer technology and graphic communications instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Wa for the past 14 years. He had the good fortune to be a part of the instructional team that created Internet related curriculum at Clark, which at that time, had one of the first community college Internet Nodes in the country. He sees his instructional mission as doing whatever is possible to give students access to and an understanding of digital technology with the belief that access and knowledge will give them multiudes of opportunity.

His projects for the workshop were a prototype podcast study guide and a podcast of some of his favorite summer festival music, the latter gave him an opportunity to get experience managing and editing a number of files in a podcast creation environment as well as a chance to share his passion for music with others on the Internet.Project Links:

Gregory Jackson

I am currently a BIT Instructor at Cascadia Community College in Bothell Wa. Autocad was my entry into the IT Industry when IBM 286’s were the standard and networking was none existent. I developed Architectural and Engineering plans but didn’t enjoy sitting in a cubical 8 hours a day 5 days a week. In 1997 I got A+ Certified and began teaching computer repair and networking. Since then I have design and build more than a hundred networks and taught at 4 Community Colleges in the Seattle area.
Project link:

Asha Nelson

This is a placeholder for Asha's bio and project.

Enrique Olguin

Enrique Olguin, Ph.D. teaches ethnic studies and political science at North Seattle CC. He has been active in exploring multimedia applications for instruction since 1994, when he participated n a joint CTC-Boeing Project in this area. Enrique uses a huge amount of video, photos and sounds in his classroom teaching, and multimedia seems an efficient way to integrate these materials. I am now working on podcasting as a way to continue this media integration, as well as to extend my students’ access to curriculum.

Project links -

Earl Steele


Bellingham Technical College

I teach the Fisheries Technology Program and run the Whatcom Creek Hatchery which releases about 3 million salmon and trout annually. I started the program and have taught 28 years. I also do some consulting work and have an oyster and clam farm in Hood Canal. I have commercial fished for salmon, crab, prawns, and bottom fish in Washington and Alaska for over 30 years. I have a BS Degree from the University of Washington.

I did 3 projects. I did 2 that used slides and another short video clip.


Project Links:

Maggie Stuart

Hi, I’m Maggie Stuart, a Computer Science instructor at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington, currently working on a variety of special campus projects, in addition to my teaching responsibilities. In my spare time, I am a doctoral student at Oregon State University.

My podcasting project is a collection of podcasts that will be used in an introductory networking course.

Project Links-

Tim Trussler

Tim Trussler is a Microsoft Office instructor at Bates Technical College, as well as an ABE/GED instructor. Additionally, he is a computer instructor for staff development and continuing education. He also works with program development for the Job Readiness Training Center at Bates. He has been employed at Bates for 3 years, and has been in the educational field for nearly 20 years. He has taught in various settings, including colleges, for-profit organizations, non-profit organizations, and para-school institutions.

Tim's first blog is the GED podcast blog. Here is the link.

http://warringwithtrolls.blogspot.com/

Putting Power Point into MovieMaker

Jeff found a good tutorial on creating a narrated PowerPoint presentation using Windows MovieMaker. I can also help with this and Earl is working on his second or third project now.



Enjoy and thanks, Jeff