Teaching with Blackboard Episode 17
In this latest episode of the Teaching with Blackboard podcast, Olga Urban and I discuss the Blackboard Content Collection. | Content Collection Documentation | SafeAssign Documentation | Scholar Documentation | Kaltura
Groups vs. Networks: The Class Struggle Continues
Stephen Downes shares this presentation he gave at e-Fest in Wellington, New Zealand. It’s his first extended discussion of groups and networks. Slides and audio are also available, along with the original diagram he drew comparing groups vs. networks and his initial video explanation.
mLearn 07
This series of posts from Stephan Ridgway summarizes, and even better, provides audio from, the mLearn 07 conference. Stephan Ridgway, Talking VTE Podcast
http://talkingvte.blogspot.com/search/label/mlearn07
One session in particular that caught my eye is the session entitled, “Studywiz: A Big Platform in a Small World”. I hope to download the mp3 file of that session to listen as well as several of the others as well. It looked like it was a great conference. Anyone who attended, feel free to comment with your reflections.
Free Text-to-Audio (.mp3) with BlueGrind
BlueGrind is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows for textcasting, the conversion of text to .mp3 for distribution. It allows for both the automatic conversion of the text on a blog to .mp3 (with each posting having its own separate .mp3 file) as well as the ability to upload a text file and then have it automatically converted to audio and be downloadable as a .mp3.
Here’s a sample audio file (.mp3) that BlueGrind.com created from text. The voice that you hear is that of a computer, not that of the author of the text. This audio file is posted here.
Audio Conferencing with YackPack
YackPack boasts a simple and convenient web browser based interface design for audio conferencing, allow students and teachers to focus on content and not be distracted by the underlying technology.
Details concerning educational applications of YackPack are listed here. Click here for a video demo of YackPack.