December 31st, 2004 — Miscellaneous
Want to hear the latest is among IT professionals? Go to this site. The subtitle of this site is “News Ideas Through Your Headphones” which refers to the fact that you can get podcasts of the conversations.
IT Conversations
convert this post to pdf. December 31st, 2004 — Podcasting
This is the place to go to learn about podcasting. This site won’t help you learn how to create a podcast; rather, it explains what podcasting is, supplies a directory of podcasts, and has a link to download iPodder, software needed to access podcasts. There are other Podcast readers (I guess that’s what you call them), which can be found at http://www.podcasting-101.com/podcast-reader.html
iPodder.org : What is podcasting?
convert this post to pdf. December 31st, 2004 — Podcasting
This article explains how to use the microphone that is built into the iSight camera to produced the audio clips for a Podcast.
Hugo Schotman: Using iSight as a Microphone for Podcasting
convert this post to pdf. December 30th, 2004 — Multimedia
Do you use Skype, the free Internet service for making phone calls? If you are a Macintosh user with OS X, you can record your Skype conversations using the instructions given at this site:
Webcrumbs: Recording Skype Calls
This may be a nice tool to use in a distance education (or even a F2F teaching situation (as long as the students have a computer in front of them that has a microphone). After the discussion is finished, the file could be posted on a web page for later accessing, or posted in a Course Management System, such as Blackboard.
convert this post to pdf. December 30th, 2004 — Podcasting
Want to know how to create a Podcast. Look at this site. Some of the instructions are a little bit sketchy but this will give you the general idea.
How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) – Engadget – www.engadget.com: “How to get Podcasts and also make your own”
convert this post to pdf. December 30th, 2004 — Miscellaneous
The Internet Archive is a “digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.” Like a paper library, [they] provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” At this site, there are movies, still images, audio, texts,etc.
A page called Podcasting 101 can be found here.
convert this post to pdf. December 28th, 2004 — Miscellaneous
Teaching a distance course? Try Skype. This software works with all platforms.
Skype – Free Internet telephony that just works
convert this post to pdf. December 28th, 2004 — Miscellaneous
This is some neat software that I wish I used more because one of the neat things it can do is convert your documents into Web pages with tabs on the side for each of the major categories that you create in your Notebook. A free Reader is also available for OS X. I wish they would create a Reader for Windows XP so I could share my documents with my XP students.
AquaMinds – NoteTaker
convert this post to pdf. December 28th, 2004 — Miscellaneous
Need to catalog your personal library of books, music, and movies. This software allows you to read the barcode found on the back of the item using your iSight Camera. It then connects to Amazon, find the image and other information about the item, and puts that into your library. Works pretty well but you have to a little careful when you put the barcode up to the iSight camera so it reads it correctly.
convert this post to pdf. December 24th, 2004 — Digital Photography, Multimedia
You should really check out Flickr. There are some neat things you can do there. One of the neat things you can do is to put a Flash animation of your pics on your web site. Learn how to do this by going to www.flickr.com/fun/zeitgeist.
convert this post to pdf. December 24th, 2004 — Multimedia
SnapZ Pro is a nice product that allows you to capture an entire screen, a portion of the screen, or a window. If you pay more, you can get the version that allows you to create movies of the screen actions. You can get SnapZ Pro from Ambrosia.
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convert this post to pdf. December 24th, 2004 — Blogging
There is software called ecto that allows you to easily post to your blog. It has some nice editing features. It also spell checks as you type. One of the things I notice when posting to my blog in blogger is that if I use Safari, I don’t have access to various editing features so I have to use Firefox or Mozilla.
Here’s an example of what can be done with ecto.
You can learn more about ecto by going to http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/
[posted with ecto]
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