A podcast directory for Australian. The site is community driven and offers tagging and community bookmarking.
Sites in the directory must be:
* an audio or video podcast
* about Australian subjects/topics; by an Australian; or have a .au domain
* non-adult content
obtained via Podcasting News
Legal issues in podcasting the traditional classroom
it’s an age old issue, copyrights, now of podcasted lectures, and students’ podcasted work … two MOV movies presentation discussing the above issues. check out HigherEd BlogCon for the full report.
Podcast Listerners – 27 million
Read this off podcasting news:
Arbitron, a research firm serving the radio industry, has released this report and besides the figure above, here are some trends:
- The weekly Internet radio audience has increased 50% over the last year.
- Nineteen percent of persons age 18-34 have listened to Internet radio in the last week.
- Satellite radio subscribers are twice as likely to live in 100K+ households
- Many people are still confused about what podcasts are.
- Podcasting attracts a relatively youthful audience. More than half of listeners are under 35.
- 11% of all Americans have listened to audio podcasts. That translates into approximately 27 million Americans that have tried podcasts.
- More than half of all teens own an iPod or other portable media player.
and that’s in the US. wonder what’s our local trend, and among them our students of coz *hmm*
Audioblogging: Supporting the Learning of Oral Communication Skills in Chinese Language
This is a paper that we have crafted for the upcoming AECT Research Symposia to be held in Indiana University, Bloomington from 22 – 25 June 2006. This paper reports on our pilot study “Project Muvocast” which involves Woodlands Primary School back in the second-half of 2005 with the support of Creative Technology Ltd.
How’s the results? What are some of the findings? Find out for yourself 🙂
Download from:
Either
Audioblogging: Supporting the Learning of Oral Communication Skills in Chinese Language [Local mirror]
OR
Audioblogging: Supporting the Learning of Oral Communication Skills in Chinese Language [AECT mirror]
Techocrati tag: audioblogging
Georgia school displays iPod ingenuity
Though campuses across the nation have begun transforming iPods into educational tools, few schools have embraced the technology as much as Georgia College & State University, where faculty are using the devices for everything from screening movies to podcasting answers to frequently asked questions.
Some lines from the article as well:
- “The more you free up your classroom for discussion, the more efficient you are,” said Dorothy Leland, the school’s president.
- “Now I can devote my whole three hours to Socratic dialogue.”
- GCSU officials say the school makes sure its iPod lessons supplement classroom work–not replace it.
- “[You] think it will never get the same sense of community living together, but we definitely found that sense of belonging”