Using VoiceThread in Moodle — Documentation — from Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne
For users of Moodle, VoiceThread recently announced some useful new information. VoiceThread has published documentation for integrating VoiceThread modules into Moodle 1.9. In this documentation you will find all you need to know to embed VoiceThreads into Moodle, creating VoiceThread assignments with Moodle, and authenticating with single sign-on. …
Sad news…Drop.io removed voice recording feature, but there are some good alternatives! — from Toy to Cool: Cell Phones in Learning blog by Liz Kolb
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Liz put together a nice list of potential tools to use to record digital audio. (Additional tool: Wimba Voice is another great tool that integrates nicely with Moodle and Bb CMS’s…but Wimba needs to bring the price waaaaay down w/ that tool.)
Also from http://www.wainhouse.com/files/wrb-11/WRB-1120.pdf
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Key trends in the web conferencing market — from nojitter.com’s blog by Melanie Turek, Industry Director, Frost and Sullivan
(BTW, nojitter.com provides a daily analysis of the enterprise IP-telephony, unified communications and converged networking world)
Considering delivery of digital media online — from JISC Digital Media
Summary
It is common to think of using digital media in education as a ‘new thing’ when in actual fact it has been used for many years in a variety of guises. What’s new however, are the opportunities that a convergence of the internet and affordability of devices has provided the mass market. This document looks at some of the options for delivering digital media using the web as a delivery platform.
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10-5-10– from Google announces TV deals with HBO, NBA, others
“One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers,” Ambarish Kenghe, developer product manager for Google TV, said in the post.
We use Lynda.com and the feedback has been excellent. Back in 1997, I took a 1-day seminar from Lynda Weinman out at SFSU’s Multimedia Studies Program. I learned more from her in a few hours then I have in many courses. She knows how to make things very understandable…and she’s a great teacher. If she doesn’t know the topic, she selects people who know how to explain that topic in easy-to-understand terms.
So when I saw this item — Connect@NMC: Panel Discussion Led By Laurie Burruss of Lynda.com – Implementing Lynda.com Campus-Wide — I felt that I should pass it along.
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‘My Generation’ iPad app syncs with TV — from CNN.com by John D. Sutter
A new app for Apple’s tablet computer will listen to the ABC television series “My Generation” with you, and serve up content to augment the experience.
Using the iPad’s built-in microphone, the free “My Generation Sync” app literally syncs up with the TV show so it can give you information about what’s happening at that very moment on the television.
Why is the device compelling? [Marc] Andreessen and [Osman] Rashid talk about how Kno is offering a total product – software, hardware and services – that will be compelling to the college user. They can purchase textbooks and view them just as they look in printed format. Users will be able to take notes, draw on the pages, etc., just like the print versions. And they’ll be able to access those books on a variety of devices – even eventually their desktop and laptops – because Kno’s software is built on webkit and designed to run on a variety of hardware setups. And there’s a normal web browser too for the Internet in general.
As for textbook pricing, Rashid says the model will work. Imagine an iTunes for college textbooks, he says, and users who purchase the tablet and all their books will be paying about the same amount v. just buying print books over the first 13 months. That means individual books on the Kno will be priced lower than the average of $100 for the print versions.
Top five applications for video in higher education — from Cisco
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Royalty-free music: Where to find free music tracks for your video clips — from Robin Good’s Latest News by Daniele Bazzano
As you probably know, it is illegal to use copyrighted commercial music when publishing video clips online. For example, YouTube has developed a copyright-protection system that immediately detects unlicensed uses of copyrighted music tracks inside videos published online and silences them or blocks them from public viewing. So, how can you get a nice background music to place on your videos without infringing the law? The MasterNewMeda research team comes to the rescue with this guide listing all of the best services on the web to get or download open and unrestricted royalty free music.
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Where can you find royalty free music
