bobCast #14 The Podcast Project

This time we meet and interview some of the faculty that makeup the "Podcast Group" here at Broward Community College. These faculty members will come together to learn how to podcast and how to apply the technology to their classrooms. In this interview they will discuss their plans as to how they will use this technology in the classroom.

Our "Podcast Group" consists of the following South Campus faculty:

• Dr. Patrick Ellingham - of the English Department
• Prof. Francisco Grisales- Spanish (MFL)
• Dr. Kate LeGrand - Office Systems Technology
• Prof. Steven Godby - Soc./Bev. Sciences
• Prof. Robert Buford (bob) - Speech and Communications

Once again we will feature the music of Ms. Adrina Thorpe. I know this is twice in a row but I like the way she sings. I hope you enjoy the podcast and each and everyone has a Happy Nwe Year and a great new semester!

Bob

bobCast-13-2005-11-27 What Do You Do When The bobCast Is Not Enough?

Welcome to bobCast 13 - The lucky edition.

Today we take a look at some storm technologies -
chainsaw 101 - How to purchase and sharpen your own chainsaw chain.

Wood stacking and hauling, and most important how to sweet talk city workers so that they will haul off all of the stuff in front of your house.

As soon as we can get a roofer to return our calls, we will cover the art of "The Roof". also known as how to get one on top of your house instead of in the backyard.

We wrap our ears around some "podsafe music" from the podsafe music network.
This podcast will feature a young lady with a beautiful voice, Adrina Thorpe.
The following is the discription from here podsafe music network page:


Bio:
On Adrina Thorpe's debut album, "elusive," delicate piano melodies and lush vocals weave in and out of each other, drifting amid the punchy bass and drum lines. Like paper-thin china or like sunrise on the gray ocean waves...Adrina's melodies captivate listeners with their distinct beauty.
Check out her website: http://www.adrinathorpe.com/

We will talk about some of the podcasting resources that Bob listens to in order to get his dose of teckno news.

Digitallife TV

http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx

This Week In Tech

http://twit.tv/

Diggnation

http://revision3.com/diggnation

And last but not least, we will talk briefly about the up comming "Podcast Project" where several Broward Community College professors try podcasting to develop both audio and video resources for their classrooms.

Next time we hope to interview several e-learning teachers who used their e-learning resources to weather the storm and keep their classes going durning the long "vacation" caused by Wilma.

bobcast #12 October 14th, 2005 Small Wonders for the Classroom

This bobCast is a follow-up to the Instructional Technology workshop held this week where we took a look at some of the smaller mobile technology devices on the market. This workshop was entitled Small Wonders: Tablet-PCs, Handhelds,Smartphones & iPods. This is the second of two workshops/demos that Mary Diaz, David Shulman and myself will do at the up coming League Of Innovation Conference in Dallas, TX. In addition to showing and demonstrating some of these devices, we discuss how they might be enployed in a classroom setting. Several people arounf the college were not able to attend this event and this podcast is intended to share with them some ofthe information that they might have missed.

"Put Your Ears" on and give us a listen!

bobCast #11 September 26th, 2005 Podcasting Meets WebCT Lite while using the Clickers

This week we meet with Professor Sharon Rifkin and speak with her about WebCT Lite and the workshops that the e-learning team is putting together to introduce this new effort to spread the use of technology in the classroom.

We, also, talk with Dr. Greg Reeder about his workshops on Computer Performance System (“clicker”) technology. This new technology helps the students provide feedback to the teacher in real time and provives the teacher with a better insight into how well the students understanfd the material covered in class.

David Shulman and Mary Diaz and I discuss the workshop "Is That a Class in Your iPod?". This workshop provides the attendee with an understanding of what procasting is, how it is created and how it can be enployed as a teaching tool by faculty.

A couple of strange characters (other than Bob) and some great "podsafe" music round out the lineup.

"Put Your Ears" on and give us a listen!

bobCast #10 September 9th, 2005 Mary Diaz and the Mentor Project meets Jethro

This week we meet with Mary Diaz of the Instructional Technology Department's Mentor/ Mentee project. Mary tells us about the program, and how faculty at the college can get involved and become mentors or mentees. We travel to South Campus for the opening of the Art Gallery's first show of the year which features Latin American Art. Patrick "Jethro" Ellingham, the bobCast raving reporter, has talk with both Professor Kyra Belan, the director of the South Campus Art Gallery and Raul Oyuela, the director of the Museum of the Americas in Miami, FL. In addition, we Take a walk with the Jim Morrison and Oscar the Grouch in a Mashup.

If you would like to make a donation to the people in the Gulf States hit by the big storm, you can do so at one of the following links:

The Salvation Army

http://www1.salvationarmy.org/

The American Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org/

bobCast #9 August 26th, 2005 BCC Opening Day

Thursday August 22 was the first day back to work for many folks at Broward Community College . We started off the new academic year with a general meeting at the Omini auditorium on the BCC North Campus. This year we started with an Informational Market Place where different programs and activities around the college were setup to show their finer points and offerings, and of course, the bobCast was there to capture the excitement of the moment!

Omni People
This podcast stars several of the outstanding family members at Broward Connumity College.
Pat Ellingham
Trish Joyce
Terri Hayes
Michael Caldwell
Dr. Shawn Pan
Joel Harris
Tony Del Los Santos
Jim Wilson
a couple of hundred of the background chorus

Tech News
The iPaq 6500 PocketPC phone

Features

• Featuring Microsoft® Windows® for a familiar and intuitive environment

• Integrated GSM/GPRS/EDGE technologies to deliver the broadest range of high-speed data and voice connectivity.

• GPS Navigation powered by TomTom for turn-by-turn, visual and spoken directions.

• Integrated keyboard, making it easier to type e-mail, notes and instant messages at anytime.

• Private messenger – send and receive messages through SMS, for text, and MMS for messages that combine text, sounds, images and video. Also features instant messaging for quick and easy real-time communication.

Tech Views

PocketPC or Palm



Music by Robert Koppelman

The Hymn to Saint Cellular



Special Thanks

Maddy at Maddy’s Printing
West Oakland Park Blvd
Sunrise, Fl.
For printing the new bobCast cards

Hector Alvero of McGraw Hill Publishing
For the bobCast pens.
These are sleek, blue and embossed with the bobCast name and broadcast information.

bobCast #8 with Russ Adkins and Robert Koppleman

Today's bobCast includes an interview with Russ Adkins and the bobCast's first musical segment provided by Robert Koppelman of the BCC English Department on the Central Campus. Also included is a BCC News segment in which we talk about the tabletPC and the HP grant awarded to the Central Campus Biology Department. We introduce a new software called Castblaster. Castblaster is a new software from The Podshow Network for creating podcasts, and we introduce our new bobcast podcast format.

bobCast #7 Emerging Communication Technologies for Online Learning

On Thursday June 23 I attended the Emerging Technologies Conference held at The University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. This conference was a part of the Partnership for the Advancement of Distributed Learning program at the University. This workshop covered several of the newer technologies that are being used by faculty in the classroom. These technologies include blogs, vlogs, podcasting, rss feeds, news aggregators and exposure to several different types of portable devices such as iPods, PDAs and Blackberry devices. This podcast discusses some of the information and ideas that were presented and how these technologies might be employed in the mobile classroom.
Below is a list of websites that were given as sources of additional information:

Blogs

Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com
Myblogsite - http://myblogsite.com
Blogger - http://www.blogger
Blogger includes Autoblogger – http://autoblogger.com call autoblogger from any phone and leave a message that is immediately posted to your blog site as an MP3 audio file.

Podcasts or audio blogs

Podcatching (Aggregator) software

ipodderx – http://ipodderx.com
ipodder – http://ipodder.org
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes Version 4.9 will have a built in aggregator
Dopplerradio – http://www.dopplerradio.net aggregator for Windows XP computers
Podfeeder – http://www.podfeeder.com

Podcasting directories

Castregister.com – http://www.castregester.com
Digital Podcast – http://www.ditigalpodcaster.com
iPodderx - http://ipodderx.com/directory
ipodder.org – http://www.ipodder.org
penginradio – http://penguinradio.com/podcasting
podcast.net – http://www.podcast.net
Podcast Alley – http://www.podcastalley.com
podcastDirectory – http://www.podcastdirectory.com
podfeed.net – http://www.podfeed.net

The Podcasting Community Online

Podcasting News – http://www.podcastingnews.com – A site to read about the latest podcasting news.
Daily Source Code – http://www.dailysourcecode.com – A daily audio blog by Adam Curry in MP3 format
Ipodsoft – http://www.ipodsoft.com – A resource for ipod applications
podcastExpert.com – http://www.podcastexpert.com – A community-driven site for resources on creating, producing, and receiving Podcasts
Ultimate Podcasting – http://www.ultimatepodcasting.com – The Companion Podcast for The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting

Integration of technology into the Curriculum

Sue LeBeau – http://www.suelebeau.com/blogs.htm - Blogs, vlogs, wikis and podcasts websites compiled by Sue LeBeau
Australian Computer Society – http://www.acs,openlab.net.au/content.php?article.88 – Weblogs, blogs, vlogs and wikis by ACS on Monday March 14th 2005
Utah Education Network – http://www.uen.org/is/podcasting.shtml - Utah Education Network for exploring models for offering educational content via Podcasting.

bobCast #6 June 6th, 2005 Using Podcasting as a Teaching Tool

How can podcasting be used as an educational tool? As discussed earlier, one of the biggest advantages of podcasting is the ability to download a podcast file and listen to it in a mobile fashion. This means that the student be use the file in any place they happen to be. This could work very well for the community college becasue the basic community college student is by nature very mobile. Many students have a long cummute just to get to the classroom. They then rush off to work, which means more time in the car or on the bus. The mobile MP3 player can go right along with them, and offer them entertainment or education. In the car, and FM modulator such as the Griffin iTrip for the iPod will allowthem the play their device through the car radio. They can listen to the class lecture that their professor has posted as a podcast on his or her website, or listen to a test review that might help them pass the test that they will take later in the day.
I teach a class entitled Introduction To Speech Communication in which the students are exposed to the various elements of speech communication including group discussion. We do an excersice called the Financial Aid Project. In this project, the class divides up into small groups of around five to seven students, and they must choose two people from a list to recieve scholarships that will allow them to complete four years of college that they might not otherwise be able to do on their own. Do they pick the person who has worked to achieve high scolastic standards, the football player or cheerleader or the person from a third world country who will go back to his country after school and help his people produce more much needed food?
In this bobCast, I recorded the presentation of each group and I have included the highlights from the presentations. When you listen to the reasons why they choose the people you start to get an insight into the thinking and feelings of the community college student.

bobCast #5 with Mary Diaz and David Shulman

In this week's bobCast, we meet with Professor Mary Diaz and with David Shulman thrown in for good measure. The "IT War Room" (a.k.a. The Roasted Bean) is the scene. We discuss the up coming League of Innoviation's CIT Conference to be held Oct. 2005 in Dallas, TX. Mary, David and I have been invited to present at the League on new upcomming technologies such as "podcasting", and explore some of the technologies making news, which may soon find their way into our classrooms as teaching tools. One of these technologies is the TabletPC which Mary uses in her WebCT e-learning classes to teach writing to her ESL students. Mary also trains faculty on the use of TabletPCs through her "Tablet Talk" sessions which she has held on each of the BCC campuses. As a sideline, Mary trains faculty in the use of WAM a software program used by the College to build websites for our College's Intranet. We hope you find this session of the bobCast interesting, and we hope you will keep coming back for more. And don't forget to tell "all" of your friends!

bobCast #4 with David Shulman

In this podcast I speak with David Shulman who is the Director of Instructional Technology at the college. David oversees many of the projects that one sees when they visit the Instructional Technology website and designs and builds many of the webpages found there. We met in the secret headquaters of the Instructional Technology Department in downtown Davie, FL.

Today we discuss:

The difference between IT1 and IT2.
The plans for the summer IT workshops.
The role of mobile technology at the college.
The up coming League Of Innovation CIT in the fall.
And most important of all- Why David talks the way he does.

Special Note: Several people have told me that they have not listened to the bobCast because they do not have an iPod. While the "pod" part of the word "podcast comes from the word "iPod", you do not have to use an iPod to listen to a podcast. The podcast file is just a simple mp3 file just like the music files that one can download from the internet. You can play the file in Windows Media player, itunes, Music Match or any program that allows for the playing of an mp3 file.

To save the file to your computer just right click the file name, if you are using a Windows computer, and choose "save target as" from the menu. You can then choose where you want to save to file and play the file by just clicking on the file name. It will open in you default music player, or you can "right click" and choose to play it in another player from the list provided on the screen.

Happy listening!

bobCast on e-learning

This is the third podcast in the series for the "bobCast". In this podcast I interview Ms. Sharon Parker,the Director of Flexible Learning at Broward Community College, and Professor Sharon Rifkin, who serves as the lead faculty associate for e-learning at the college, and also teaches as a faculty member in the Department of Education at BCC South Campus. These two ladies have both worked hard to establish Broward Community College as a leader in the field of e-learning, and they explain first-hand how they did it and where they think it will go in the future. E-learning is one of the areas served by the Department Instruction Technology.
The RSS feed address for the podcast is http://www1.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts/feed.xml

You can set this up for a regular download by copying the above URL into your podcatcher program (such as "ipodder"). You can download ipodder for free at http://www.ipodder.org.
Additional podcast software can be found at http://www.podcastalley.com
While you are at Podcast Alley, show your support of this podcast to vote for the bobCast as your podcast choicw of the month.
Please let me know how you like it by your comments to this blog. Or you can drop me an e-mail at rbuford@broward.edu.

bobCast - My 2nd Podcast

Welcome to my second podcast. This is second podcast in the series for the "bobCast". In this podcast I try to describe what a podcast is and how it can be used by the faculty member or student. I talk about how the idea of podcasting got started and take an overview at how setup a podcast.
The address for the podcast is http://www1.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts/feed.xmlYou can set this up for a regular download by copying the above URL into your podcatcher program (such as "ipodder"). You can download ipodder for free at http://www.ipodder.org.
Please let me know how you like it by your comments to this blog.

Buford's --- First Real "bobCast"--

Welcome to my first real podcast. In this podcast I will welcome listeners to the podcast and explain what I will be doing in the future. This was recorded on a handheld iPod and I hope that the sound quality will improve as I learn what to do and how to do it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my first effort and come back each week.

The address for the podcast is http://www1.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts/feed.xmlYou can set this up for a regular download by copying the above URL into your podcatcher program (such as "ipodder"). You can download ipodder for free at http://www.ipodder.org.

Please let me know how you like it by your comments to this blog.