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Are Podcasts The Most Underrated Format for L&D?

Thinkdom

A podcast is a digital audio file that can be listened to or downloaded online. The term "podcast" is a combination of the words "iPod" and "broadcast," as it was initially used to describe the process of downloading radio broadcasts from the internet and listening to them on an iPod through a program called ippoder.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #2

Upside Learning

Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn’t connected to the Internet. FluidPaint –Drawing on digital interface using real brushes. This technology let use of real wet brushes for painting on a digital interface.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine)

Mark Oehlert

It examines the use of blogging softwareas an interface to digital library content stored in a separaterepository. It examines the use of blogging softwareas an interface to digital library content stored in a separaterepository. Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! books futures Web 2.0

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TCC09: Podcasting with Section 508

Experiencing eLearning

Digital File. open source software options: Audacity. Mixer–no open source ones out there, but Audacity does a lot. Digital reference monitors–speakers for playback. Most people at their university use media players, not iPods. Market research on US podcast audience. million (2007).

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Why Disruption and eLearning Matter to Higher Education

OpenSesame

I took courses from as many professors who utilized Moodle (an open source LMS) as I did from professors who did not allow e-readers or laptops in class. As I see online education and distance learning grow in popularity, I have to wonder, did I attend college in a digital dark age? Source: “Education Disruption On Its Way.”

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Why Disruption and eLearning Matter to Higher Education

OpenSesame

I took courses from as many professors who utilized Moodle (an open source LMS) as I did from professors who did not allow e-readers or laptops in class. As I see online education and distance learning grow in popularity, I have to wonder, did I attend college in a digital dark age? Source: “Education Disruption On Its Way.”

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): If there are Digital Natives does that mean there is no Digital Ellis Island?

Mark Oehlert

wisdom | Main | Great List of Presentation Resources » June 23, 2007 If there are Digital Natives does that mean there is no Digital Ellis Island? This post by David Weinberger pointed me toward the Digital Natives project. Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! books futures Web 2.0

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