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UD joins iTunes U to deliver educational materials
"The University of Delaware has joined other prominent universities, world-renowned museums and academies of life-long learning on Apple's iTunes U, which provides educational audio and video content through the iTunes Store."
Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture'
"Attendance is much more contingent on whether the professor is an engaging lecturer, said Jennifer Stringer, director of educational technology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, at one of the sessions. “Well-attended lectures were well-watched; poorly attended lectures were not watched,” Stringer said, pointing to research she had conducted at Stanford. "If you’re bad, you’re bad. If you’re bad online, you’re bad in lectures, students don’t come.”"
iTunes U evolving into teacher resource
"Site's free educational content also has become a promotional tool for campuses, showing what researchers are doing with grants "
The Wired Campus - Berkeley Gets Grants to Develop Open-Source Software for Online Lectures - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Originally called “Opencast,” the project – now called “Opencast Matterhorn” – received $1.5-million in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations to begin developing software. "
ProfCast
ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording presentations including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes creating, recording, and publishing podcasts easy. It's as simple as Launch, Load, and Lecture!
A million downloads: Free Stanford course on creating iPhone apps takes off at a furious pace
Free videos of Stanford's wildly popular course on creating applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have now been downloaded a remarkable million times from Stanford's site on iTunes U in the iTunes Store. And all of the million downloads have come in just seven weeks, since the course began on April 1.
Mission Statement | Opencast
The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia. Through the mailing list, website and collaboration among its members, the community will strive to offer guidance and information to help others choose the best approach for the delivery and usage of rich media online.
Yodio - Add voice to photos
Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues.
www.audiotube.in
A Youtube for audio files. AudioTube.in is a brand new Czech start-up project founded by a group of music fans. Since the very beginning it is meant as an international service so it can attract as many music and audio fans as possible. For that reason AudioTube.in started on an international domain.
Here comes Google Voice
We've just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.
Alternatives to Gcast
With the unfortunate new price that it costs to use Gcast.com, Jennifer and I have been searching the Internet for alternatives that are free to use.
Time for audio?
Yes, if you’re not concerned about editing your work, but just getting it out there, then that’s right. YouTube is wonderfully simple and I have pined for a decent audio podcasting site, one that will store your media rather than just allow you to link to it (like Blogger).
Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
Odeo makes it easy to find, play and enjoy the latest audio & video from around the web. Discover great shows, subscribe to favorites, create playlists and share with friends. From comedy to cooking, entertainment to education, if it's online, it's on Odeo.
Free Podcast Hosting, Podcast Social Subscribing
Podbean.com is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting.
The Levelator from The Conversations Network
It's software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three.
SI182: Building Applications for Information Environments
SI 182 is an introductory programming course designed to be useful to a wide range of students in all concentrations. Built as a web site that uses Sakai as a repository.
An Ode to RSS, On RSS Awareness Day
RSS allows casual readers to become ongoing subscribers, easily receiving new articles in a convenient way when they are available. A world without RSS (or, of course some other simple syndication protocol) would be a very bad world for blogs.
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