The Professor’s Notes

As I mentioned previously, I gave a presentation at the 2008 TLT Symposium, discussing Social Networking with “non-traditional students.”  In that presentation, I talked a bit about what exactly is a non-traditional student, and what it means to have “social networking” for them.  I tried to have it be an open discussion.
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Let’s be fair here. Teachers deserve more pay. Okay. Here in the Cumberland Valley School District, The school board made several reasonable (and some would say, beyond reasonable) offers. Higher than COLA pay raises. Lower than average health care costs with better than average benefits. Making the pay raises [...]

 

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My son put together a project for his history class. He had to do something that reflected some aspect of China. He decided to “visit” China and watch some ping-pong tournaments.
The avid listener and follower will know that he and I blog and podcast together over at “The Father Son Chats.”
Enjoy his video!

 

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My brother (the Targuman) and I have another chat. We briefly chat about the YouTube video that I blogged on previously, and then move on to talk about the Mac Air. As a starting point we talk about the critique that Paul Thurrott of the Windows Weekly podcast gives of the Mac [...]

 

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As you may have noticed, in addition to the podcast recording of the presentation, I am including the pdf of the paper, as well as the PowerPoint slides from the presentation. I decided to also make these available as part of the “podcast” subscription feed. If you subscribe to the podcast, you will also receive [...]

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As you may have noticed, in addition to the podcast recording of the presentation, I am including the pdf of the paper, as well as the PowerPoint slides from the presentation. I decided to also make these available as part of the “podcast” subscription feed. If you subscribe to the podcast, you will [...]

 Paper on Podcasting in SC Education from Proceedings CSCMP Educators Conference: Download (148)

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I presented my paper on Podcasting in Supply Chain Education. The paper received the “Teaching Innovation Award” for best paper in teaching innovations.
From the paper:
“Podcasting” has taken the technological and hobbyist worlds by storm, allowing for the creation of highly specialized audio (and now video) productions for delivery over the internet. This [...]

 

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Recorded at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 in August of 2007, this interview covers why he decided to help start a Podcamp in Pittsburgh (”the need to instigate.”) We take a few minutes to talk about how friendly Pittsburgh happens to be, and how Pittsburgh really is the high-tech city of the Eastern US. It’s good [...]

 

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In this podcast, I interview Chris Brogan, one of the original creators of the first PodCamp in Boston. We talked about how podcasting works, and what our favorite podcasts are. In fact, we both have enjoyed Teaching for the Future with Dave LaMorte. Chris mentions the “Something to be Desired” online TV show [...]

 

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Thanks go to the folks at the applephoneshow.com for a great find! I have been asked if I know of a program that would convert text files, or better yet PDF files, to speech. Unfortunately, my answer was always “no.”
Until today.
While perusing the latest musings of the iPhone Fanboys/girls, I came across [...]

 

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