When I was in San Antonio, TX a few weeks ago for the ELI Annual Meeting, we had a very enthusiastic participant in our audience during our presentation: Your 2.0 Life: Models and Methods to Meet Learners’ Needs in a Technological Age (Innovative Practice). I was discussing how students in an online course commented that [...]
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Expanding Composition Audiences with Podcasting
Doug Dangler, Ben McCorkle, and Time Barrow’s “Expanding Composition
Audiences with Podcasting,” C&C Online, Spring 2007, is excellent article on podcasting in composition courses.
This article explores various uses of podcasting that effectively engage different audiences in three major sites of composition: the classroom, the writing center, and the professional composition conference.
Dangler, [...]
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Yesterday I was reading a post on On The Cutting Edge-ucation blog, which seems now to be defunct. The post reminded me about a cool feature in podcasting that goes mostly unused by many podcasters, and that is the visual aspect of the lecture or what ever the audio content may be. Visual supplements can [...]
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I just recently heard a rumor that MCCCD is moving forward in its plans with Apple to bring iTunesU to the district. Representatives from the district met last semester with senior manager for iTunes, Eric Bailey, to discuss the logistic. Apparently we will get a similar set up to the Cal State system where each [...]
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Beginning next week, I will be presenting a learning labs Podcasting Series at South Mountain Community College. This will be a three part series:
October 9th @ 2-3:30pm in the TLC: Podcasting Theory & Practice.
October 16th @ 2-3:30pm in the TLC: Creating Audio for Podcasts Using Audacity.
October 23trd @ 2-3:30pm in the TLC: Making a Podcast.
This [...]
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Apple – Education – Podcasting in Education
Please join Jason Ediger, senior marketing manager, Apple Education, along with his guests, as he explores podcasting and its benefits for education in a free, three-part video series. You must register with Apple in order to view this video series, but it seems worthwhile. The first video is basic [...]
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I cannot express how happy I am that we have adopted a new textbook for our ENG101 courses at SMCC. The old text did not have a very good online supplement and it was expensive. The new text from Pearson Longman is less expensive and offers more, including an excellent online element called MyCompLab.
MyCompLab [...]
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the students who take online classes take them because they think it is some how easier than a traditional face-to-face class. Let me just say that they are wrong!!
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