interview career mentors—such as the dean of the Yale University School of Nursing—on the phone, in person, or over Skype
Teachers are using podcasts to connect their students to listeners local and long-distance to give projects a real-world context and audience, and to boost technological skills and independence. Th
journalist Ben Hammersley first coined the term podcast in 2004
Many student podcasts exist online as streaming audio files, or are downloadable only with a password that teachers provide to parents
Windows Vista computers come with Sound Recorder software for recording and Windows Movie Maker for editing. Another option for Windows users is to download free audio-editing software like Audacity.
students may record original music for their podcasts, but royalty-free or Creative Commons licensed music is easy to find online. Search for it on GarageBand.com (no relation to Apple’s GarageBand software) and PodSafeAudio.com.
Metadata is information that doesn’t appear in the podcast’s title or in its content, but is attached to the MP3 file and allows people to find the podcast using search directories.
The Calgary Board of Education wants its libraries to embrace new technologies, such as video conferencing and hand-held devices like smartphones and the iPod
The push to new technologies might mean movable racks of books, so the space can be used in many ways