In an earlier posting to this blog I identified that my research with engineering students on podcasting lectures was positively received by some students. (see http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/podcasting_your_lectures__will_your_students_sta

The poster proposes that podcasting offers little to the student as a means of creating and supporting their ad hoc social networks", the question is ... what do you think?Please vote using the poll question, and the use the comments section to

There are a number of emerging issues in the world of educational podcasts. One of which is an increasing critical evaluation of what podcasting actually offers as a learning technology. However, many of the studies have been small scale pilots and m

It is all very straightforward, just need a little time to explore :-)Open the software, then Tools >> Options >> scroll to Reading >> then browse for the required External Browser. 

I've just downloaded the pRSS reader for pocket pc (http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/), and first impressions (well 40 minutes of experimenting) tends to suggest it is a winner, especially because it is free :-) The first observation is that I tend

I recently ran a session at the Scottish Economics Society Annual Conference on podcasting – with Bhagesh Sachania from the Economics Network. This session contained extensive use of the electronic voting systems. An approach I adopted was to g

This article was published in Educase Quarterly (No 3 2006) - http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0634.asp This paper involved various evaluation techniques, including surveys, server logs, and focus groups. For me there are two key points that

It is evident if you’ve been subscribing to podcasts for a number of months / years that you finish up with a very large number of files on your computer. This raises a number of management issues, in particular, how do we search for specific p

As podcasting continues to move towards being a mainstream learning technology then people start to wonder how we might actually assess student podcasts.I found an interesting first stab at providing a rubric for assessing podcasts. The rubric is des

Screenography - http://www.verticalmoon.com/products/screenography/screenography.htm - looks like it is offering Camtasia-esk functionality but on a Mac (yippee). The software will capture what is appearing on the screen as a movie, and the outout o

An anxiety for many lecturers when they first discuss the idea of podcasting their lectures is that their students will stop attending. At the moment there seems to be little research in this area, however, what research there is suggests that attend

Just thought I'd note this down - used ebeam software to allow me to write free text on a whiteboard (and capture it on a PC), and then I used camtasia to capture the screencast (audio and video), and automatically create the versions for the iPod, a

I recently had this question asked, where a person wanted to make available a presentation with a talking head (picture in picture) included. I thought, yes, use Camtasia 4, as I was very interested in seeing how it rendered on small screens - see pr

This is the first of a series of contributions which aims at unpicking the potential uses of using Camtasia 4 to record a presentation (or material for a presentation) and then publish these to others to view. Context A lecturer wishes to capt

Great news, I've finally started to get some time and space to look at the upgraded Camtasia 4 - the first impression is it is going to make the creation of material for podcasting a lot easier. Such as, a check of a check box strips out the audio as

Mark raised some interesting points in his comments to a previous contribution (http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/iadis_mobile_learning_conf_report_1.htm), which I thought I’d unpick within this response. Firstly the issue of audiobay -

This podcast is actually a screencast of a presentation that I gave at a mobile learning conference in Dublin, Ireland.The background is that I’ve been trialling the use of Camtasia to capture a lecture (including audio), and then publish this

The screencast of my IADIS Mobile Learning Conference paper, “Podcasting: probably not the best collaborative learning tool in the world” didn’t work. Am I down? No, there were some important lessons in the way that I’m planni

The quest for capturing lectures and making these available as a podcast continues. Infact I think that I’m nearly there!What I need is a system that is flexible enough for all our needs, not just powerpoint with audio, but for those lectures w

I’ve been continuing to research a means of capturing lecture material and making this available online (flash file), and as a podcast (mpeg4 file).The challenge is that these lectures do not use powerpoint (or an equivalent). The discipline is

The UK JISCMail has launched a podcast email list ... see ... http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/podcasting.html for joining instructions.

The aim of these activities is to re-work a learning activity that currently includes a podcast within it. The design is based on the following underlying principles; When and where appropriate the learning activity should be based on active learnin

The attached document (pdf) is version 2 of my "good guide on designing educational podcasts". This includes some tips, a design brief, the programme schedule and the running order. If you read it, and think of any improvements then leave a

I was reading with interest the BBC article based on Dr Bill Ashraf, who is podcasting lectures for uni students http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm It is where a lecturer replaces lectures with podcasts and more small(er)

The podcast hot list has been updated, see http://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/ole/pod/hotlists/page_01.htmThis new version includes, a spotlight on ... iPod in Education a new tutorial section on the use of some podcatchers