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Trumix.com listings available of The Academic Aesthetic - Art. Education. Technology type Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Academic Aesthetic 161: Old vs. New Written during last Wednesday’s thunderstorm-induced power outage (which gave us off on Thursday…), and recorded during tonight’s thunderstorm, I talk a bit about how the “old” should not always be replaced by the “new.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 160: Flickr Video Wow, 160 … that’s almost a milestone, isn’t it?  I suppose I should take the time to try out something new then, huh? In any case, here’s a quick rundown on my opinions concerning Flickr’s decision to host videos: Flickr’s video hosting is to most online videos as Twitter is to most blog posts. 90 seconds is very [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Started in Video, with Bre Pettis I’ve been a fan of Mr. Pettis’ work for a while now, mostly because of stuff like this. I can’t wait to see the rest of this series. Hm, perhaps I should break out my old digital video camera again? I’ve been focusing on text and audio so much of late… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teachers 2.0 Podcast: Podcasts, a Wiki, and Teacher Communities I have a new podcast up over at Teachers 2.0. You might want to check it out if you’re a Teachers 2.0 follower OR happen to like things like Second Life or World of Warcraft. To be honest, I was inspired to record this (or at least the third part of the podcast) after [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 159: Podcasting Tips and Tricks I promised to have this uploaded before I crashed for the night - looks like I got to keep my promise. This is the audio from my presentation at this year’s MICCA conference. Forgive me if I keep things brief as I’m quite wiped by the experience of these past two days. A pdf version of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 158: MICCA Freebies This time around I might sound a little different - that’s because I’m using my Creative Zen again, rather than GarageBand. I figured since I would be demonstrating it tomorrow I should get back into he process of actually using it. The books I ramble on about in this episode are Kidcast: Podcasting in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 157 In this podcast I’m looking for a few good podcasters. I’ll be presenting a session at MICCA called “Podcasting Tips and Tricks.” As I’ve done before (*cough* Edublogging 101 *cough*), I’ve created a wiki rather than print out a bunch of dead tree copies. I think I have it fleshed out enough for a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 157 In this podcast I’m looking for a few good podcasters. I’ll be presenting a session at MICCA called “Podcasting Tips and Tricks.” As I’ve done before (*cough* Edublogging 101 *cough*), I’ve created a wiki rather than print out a bunch of dead tree copies. I think I have it fleshed out enough for a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 156 I’ve been inspired! More on the inspiration later, but first two things: Yesterday on a whim (since it has nothing to do with my usual ed/tech/art ramblings) I posted a blog entry that included 20 things about myself … but one of them was a lie.  I invited readers to guess which one is false, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 156 I’ve been inspired! More on the inspiration later, but first two things: Yesterday on a whim (since it has nothing to do with my usual ed/tech/art ramblings) I posted a blog entry that included 20 things about myself … but one of them was a lie.  I invited readers to guess which one is false, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 155 Today’s show shares some more links, for your listening enjoyment. The Podcasting wikis that were sent to me were great, but not quite what Ineed for my presentation. I won’t be reinventing the wheel so much as changing the circumference and tread, I think. Want to make a quick paper CD case? I see [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 155 Today’s show shares some more links, for your listening enjoyment. The Podcasting wikis that were sent to me were great, but not quite what Ineed for my presentation. I won’t be reinventing the wheel so much as changing the circumference and tread, I think. Want to make a quick paper CD case? I see [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 154 Three in one week! Am I back on the ball again? We’ll see. The new Teachers 2.0 site is looking for a few good writers - ones willing to post somewhat regularly. Still looking for good wikis about podcasting, although suggestions have started to roll in… garageflowers suggested this wiki, which is good but not quite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 154 Three in one week! Am I back on the ball again? We’ll see. The new Teachers 2.0 site is looking for a few good writers - ones willing to post somewhat regularly. Still looking for good wikis about podcasting, although suggestions have started to roll in… garageflowers suggested this wiki, which is good but not quite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 153 This episode is a call for help! (No, not THAT call for help …) As I announced on Pownce, this will be my third consecutive year as a presenter at MICCA. In the past I’ve used wikis as my “handouts,” but I’m not sure I should create a new one from scratch if there’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 153 This episode is a call for help! (No, not THAT call for help …) As I announced on Pownce, this will be my third consecutive year as a presenter at MICCA. In the past I’ve used wikis as my “handouts,” but I’m not sure I should create a new one from scratch if there’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 152 Just audio this time. I have a dentist’s appointment tomorrow and I’m afraid that I will be unable to speak at all afterwards, or at least not well since my face may or may not be numb. Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, today’s ‘cast shares three links, all taken from this list of del.icio.us links that include the tag [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 152 Just audio this time. I have a dentist’s appointment tomorrow and I’m afraid that I will be unable to speak at all afterwards, or at least not well since my face may or may not be numb. Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, today’s ‘cast shares three links, all taken from this list of del.icio.us links that include the tag [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 151: Old New Media This is my first podcast recorded MOSTLY using Apple’s Photo Booth, a program that can record still pictures or video.  It was never actually intended for podcast creation, as I found out the hard way.  As much as I loved playing with the software, half the clips I recorded had no audio whatsoever.  This phenomenon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 151: Old New Media This is my first podcast recorded MOSTLY using Apple’s Photo Booth, a program that can record still pictures or video.  It was never actually intended for podcast creation, as I found out the hard way.  As much as I loved playing with the software, half the clips I recorded had no audio whatsoever.  This phenomenon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 150 So, here I am two weeks into the new year and I’ve yet to get started on my new year’s resolution. I thought I was getting ahead of the game by writing up some podcast scripts after Christmas, but now they seem kind of dated and, well, I can’t find them. Oh, well. All things considered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 150 So, here I am two weeks into the new year and I’ve yet to get started on my new year’s resolution. I thought I was getting ahead of the game by writing up some podcast scripts after Christmas, but now they seem kind of dated and, well, I can’t find them. Oh, well. All things considered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 149 That’s right, I’m podcasting again! And how about that, this isn’t even a horrible recorded-in-the-car-using-a-cell-phone-cast, either! I won’t speak for everyone, but for me December is a time to look back on the past year and ask “Where did the time go?” Of course it’s also a time to look forward and ask “Wait, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 149 That’s right, I’m podcasting again! And how about that, this isn’t even a horrible recorded-in-the-car-using-a-cell-phone-cast, either! I won’t speak for everyone, but for me December is a time to look back on the past year and ask “Where did the time go?” Of course it’s also a time to look forward and ask “Wait, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 148 A lot to say, but not a lot of time to type. This one’s a low quality car-cast done on my way home this afternoon. Show Notes: Art Club restarts soon! Powering Up With Technology Conference! I MIGHT be a presenter PETE & C! Same here! MICCA! I have no idea, but I hope so here, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 148 A lot to say, but not a lot of time to type. This one’s a low quality car-cast done on my way home this afternoon. Show Notes: Art Club restarts soon! Powering Up With Technology Conference! I MIGHT be a presenter PETE & C! Same here! MICCA! I have no idea, but I hope so here, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 147 (Note: I’ve just spent far too long trying to get this audio to NOT sound like a chipmunk on a coffee spree in the flash player.  The result is … less than perfect, but at least you can tell what I’m saying.) Here’s a big important question: A reputable company with a product for educators has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 147 (Note: I’ve just spent far too long trying to get this audio to NOT sound like a chipmunk on a coffee spree in the flash player.  The result is … less than perfect, but at least you can tell what I’m saying.) Here’s a big important question: A reputable company with a product for educators has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 146 The rumors of my demise … yadda yadda yadda.  No video this time, just an unedited monologue recorded with my newest gadget (see below). Sorry for the delay.  I blame end-of-school-year-hassles, a trip to PA, a new apartment, and something else. I have a new toy: The Creative Zen V Plus!  I used it to record this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 145 Download Academic Aesthetic 145No video this time, just wonderful low quality audio! Wait … what? Show notes: The wiki is getting more spam than legitimate edits. I’m dealing with the spam now, and I’ll get to the real edits soon. No, really. I’m beginning to like Ning more and more, mostly because it doesn’t crash Firefox as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 144 Sorry for the delay, now on with the show! Show notes: Another nice audio comment by Chris Craft. Where’s your audio (or video) comment? (And yes, I haven’t edited the wiki recently for the same reason I haven’t been podcasting.) To make a podcast I need time, energy, and inspiration. Usually I lack inspiration, but this time [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 143 No time for banter, here’s the show and the show notes: I start out with a “phone call” from Chris Craft.  It seems he has a complaint or two.  (You can send me your own comments, too!) My wife bought me a soldering iron. It’s cool, but scary. (I could get burned.) Bre Pettis has a cool [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NextGenTeachers Skypecast Download NextGenTeachers SkypecastI couldn’t stay for the whole thing, but I thought you’d might like to hear a recent online conversation in which I was the token rude American amongst a crowd of  British educators. OK, so I hope I wasn’t that rude.  You know me and self-depreciating humor… In any case, you can find the show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 142 This should have gone up yesterday, but instead I went to see a movie with the wife. For some reason theaters frown at customers using laptops during the movie, even though they only tell you to turn off your cell phones and pagers. They said nothing about laptops! They should be allowed, right?  Um, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connect Learning is Back! Do you listen to the Connect Learning podcast? You should.  He started long before I ever did. Chris Craft called me a Warlick groupie.  I’m not - I’d never be able to afford the travel expenses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 141 This video brought to you by a tag from Durff’s Blog.  Better late than never! My 10 tips to be successful: Give thanks. Network. Unwind. Do at least ONE productive thing every day. Make something. Do something you haven’t done before. Be honest, but not THAT honest. Never say no to free stuff. Have a “Plan B.”  Plans C and D wouldn’t hurt, either. “Don’t TELL [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 140 Behold, my 140th podcast! View it! Cherish it! Pause it at random moments and laugh at the funny faces I make! … no, wait. Scratch that last one … In any case, most of this video was taken during day 2 of MICCA. Show notes: She didn’t leave her name, but I think it’s a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 139 My first of two days at MICCA, so of course I’m playing with my video camera again. I presented today, but only a small section of this episode addresses my session. Show Notes: Free Online Resources wiki MICCA website For more from the conference, see my other blog posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 137 Audio Download Academic Aesthetic 137 AudioThink outside the frame. (Video version and show notes will follow shortly.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 136 Audio Download Academic Aesthetic 136 AudioTech is only scary ’till you try it. The video version of this ‘cast (and the show notes) will follow shortly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 135 Audio Download Academic Aesthetic 135 AudioTwitter vs. Jaiku: Who do I think will win? Listen in to find out! The video version will follow shortly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 134 Download Academic Aesthetic 134Just a few quick things that I thought were cool: My Art Club students have started teaching each other. Some of my students are linking to my website from sites they’ve made themselves. (I won’t link to their sites without parental permission, though. Second Life seems to be running better than ever. When I last [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 133 Download Academic Aesthetic 133Sorry, no video this time. This is mostly me agreeing with Chris Craft’s latest blog post on lurkers, only in more words than he used. Show Notes: Crucial Thought: Frustrated with social networks… Classroom 2.0: Can somebody explain this? Teachers 2.0 (Sorry, I couldn’t resist plugging this one again.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic 132 Audio Download Academic Aesthetic 132 AudioMy latest show is a call for would-be podcasters to start podcasting. Now. (And don’t forget to send me some audio or video comments!) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 125 Download Academic Aesthetic 125 VideoDownload Academic Aesthetic 125 AudioI’m still playing with my digital video camera, but I’m including the audio for those of you who like to listen in the car.This time around I lament that I have too many books (yeah, you heard me), and why. It’s because the nature of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 124 Download Academic Aesthetic 124Behold, Steve Dembo’s Top Web 2.0 Applications in all of their glory! The audio has a few glitches that I didn’t expect, but otherwise I’m happy with the recording.Steve’s websiteSteve’s presentation notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PETE&C Preview Download Podcast VideoDownload Standard PodcastThis is just a short video to tell you that good things are on their way.Download the mp4 movieDownload the audio only Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Website Error AA123c_070210 Well, it had to happen eventually - AcademicAesthetic.com has temporarily bitten the dust.I say temporarily, because the people maintaining my server space seem to be able to respond pretty fast to my questions.  That being said, I doubt it'll be fixed by Sunday.So i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 123 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 123Download Netcast 123 (Audio Only)This time around I play with a new toy (a digital video camera), lament (sort of) on spending so much on tech, and talk about redefining education.Don’t like the video?  I have an audio only version if you prefer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Room to Read Download Standard PodcastI’ve recently fallen in love with the podcasts that National Geographic is rolling out on a regular basis.In one of them they’ve posted an interview with John Wood, an ex-Microsoft employee who got the idea of collecting books for impoverished schools in Nepal and Vietnam (and more countries?) after a vacation to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 115 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 115This netcast is coming to you a day early. I usually record these things on Monday afternoons, but tomorrow afternoon I’ll be presenting a workshop on blogging so I don’t know if I’ll have both the time and the energy to record this then. I am hoping to get the audio [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 114 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 114It’s convention time! Or at least it will be, soon. On the 13th of next week I’ll be giving an after school workshop on blogging. If you’re in the Maryland or DC area and want to attend, check out the details here. I’ll also be going to the Powering Up With [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 113 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 113In honor of Halloween, Here’s a not-so-serious list of the top 10 scary things in education: Top 10 scary things about education. 10.  Due to the emphasis on standardized tests, local universities will look at SAT scores more than class grades.  As soon as your entire curriculum is revamped so that your students [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 112 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 112Here are the instructions for how to move video from the internet, to iTunes, to your (video) iPod, to anything with RCA jacks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Netcast 111 Download Academic Aesthetic Netcast 111Adventures with oekaki (otherwise known as forums that let you draw things).  .. I haven’t had any yet, but I think I’m ready. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 110 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 110Web based open source educational games are harder to find than I thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 109 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 109Goodbye to the forum, hellooooo, photo gallery!  Time to show off more art lesson photos than Flickr will let me do for free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 108 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 108Today (or yesterday, as many of you will hear this tomorrow,) I talk (or talked) about talking tech. Is that confusing enough? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 107 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 107Sorry about Wednesday’s podcast.  Today is about setting the bar too low. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 105 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 105Today I talk about how I want to do more tech literacy in the Art Club, but in smaller chunks.  (The chirping sound was the AC.  I couldn’t help it.) The voice in the intro is courtesy of Chris Craft.  I dare you to send me a better one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 104 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 104Today’s episode brought to you by the good people over at Hometown Tales.  They’re not exactly in the “academic” category, but they still make for a great listen and they inspired me to talk a little more about audio comments. I also mentioned Tips From The Top Floor and Craftzine - both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 104 Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 104Today’s episode brought to you by the good people over at Hometown Tales.  They’re not exactly in the “academic” category, but they still make for a great listen and they inspired me to talk a little more about audio comments.I also mentioned Tips From The Top Floor and Craftzine - both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 103 Even responses to other blogs can be blog entries, so why aren’t you blogging, yet? (Today’s podcast was inspired becuase so many people liked the PowerPoint that Karl Fisch made.  I had absolutely nothing to do with it other than linking to it.) Send me an audio comment! Post in the forums! Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 103 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 102 Today’s podcast is brought to you by the power going out.  Did I have a “Plan B?”  More than some people. Send me an audio comment! Post in the forums! Vote for me! Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 102 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 101 Are we helping other teachers see just how easy technology can make things? We should be. Send me an audio comment! Post in the forums! Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 101 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 100 That’s right, it’s my 100th podcast! Woohoo! I’m tired and it’s a school night, so I’ll forgo any lengthy explanations. A special thank you to everyone who made this all possible, especially you, the listeners. Missed out on leaving an audio comment?  Well, send one in now! Download Academic Aesthetic Podcast 100 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 99 *Tappetytappetytappety…* What?  Oh, sorry - I was just posting something in Chris Craft’s new Open Source Classroom Forum. What’s a forum?  Well, I’m glad you asked! Forums are another kind of online meeting place.  They’re like chat rooms, since multiple people have access to the same space, but they’re also like blogs, since what’s written will usually stay [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 98 Yesterday I started editing my 100th podcast. It’s not done yet, but I’m happy with what I have so far and I think you’ll be too when you hear it. I have noticed something, though. Almost all of my previous podcasts were made by me simply talking into a mic, throwing in some background [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 97 This time around I talk about personal professional development. Today’s the first day of school for students. Summer vacation is but a memory, as now it’s time for all of us to buckle down and do some serious learning. Yes, I said “all of us.” You may be a teacher, but you’re not exempt from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 96 After four frenzied days of preparing for students next week, teachers in my county have been given today off so that we might be tan, rested, and ready come Monday morning. Well, I don’t get much sun so I’m not tan. And I tend to stay up too late so I’m not rested. But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 95 Today many of the art teachers in my county got together for a beginning of the year inservice. Along with the free art material sample packs and lesson workshops, we also had time to hobnob and network. While having lunch with a high school photography teacher, I shared with him my desire to expand my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 94 I’m not from Australia. I have nothing against the land down under, but I can’t even fake a decent Australian accent. I bring this up because a recent posting on a blog called Using Wiki in Education gave me a nice write-up, but got that minor detail incorrect. I’m sure the author, one Stewart Mader, wrote [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 93 In my last podcast from PA, I talk about what I intend to do with my new thumb drive. I also briefly mention three good sources for video - SciQ.ca, Archive.org, and unitedstreaming.com. Why don’t you send me an audio comment? Listen Now:  Academic Aesthetic Podcast 93 [5:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_279_label_mp3Player_279_0').innerHTML='Hide Player'; document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_27 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 92 In this podcast I talk about verifying sources. And old science fiction. Why don’t you send me an audio comment? Listen Now:  Academic Aesthetic Podcast 92 [8:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_278_label_mp3Player_278_0').innerHTML='Hide Player'; document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_278').title = 'mp3Player_278_0'; Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hometown Tales One of my favorite diversions is listening to a good story. It could be about someone beating incredible odds, or just something incredibly odd. I suppose that’s why I listen to Hometown Tales - they’ll do a podcast on just about any story, from ghosts to good sandwiches. My only complaint is that it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 90 My last podcast was all about the DIY movement, and I suppose this is a continuation of that. I’ve been building web pages since the early days of Tripod.com. My first attempts were the moderately ugly templates that free hosts often provide, but as I learned more HTML, Javascript, CSS code, and changed servers more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 87 In this podcast I talk about my "Don't L.A.F." policy and come up with an idea for my 100th podcast. Yesterday I was browsing my Furl links when I noticed a blog I had bookmarked but hadn't subscribed to in over a year. Wondering how things had changed, I clicked away ... And immediately hit the back button and deleted the link. Apparently some time in the past year a blog about a teacher's experiences in school had been replaced by something a little less kid friendly. I was shock ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 86 Steve, this is all your fault.Back when I was interviewing Steve Dembo he mentioned that they had finally come out with a microphone for the video iPod. I thought I could just file that information away, but no.Instead, knowledge of the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo nagged at me for over a week. On Friday when I went to the Apple Store to buy a new laptop battery I was greeted by multiple rows of the shiny black marvels, and as I'm easily distracted by shiny things I really had no choice but to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 85 In today's podcast I review eyespot, a web based video editor. Sometimes I plan a podcast topic for days before I record it, other times I throw out that hard work in favor of an idea that strikes me at the last minute. Take yesterday, for example... A member of last year's Art Club has been planning on starting his own podcast, and over the past couple of weeks we've been trading emails and IMs on the subject. Yesterday he was very interested in video editing, but unfortunately he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mini Lesson 7: Origami Water Bomb I love origami, so whenever I need an idea for one of my mini lesson videos I tend to lean towards that first. Lucky for me I know a lot of designs that are public domain! I tried something new with this episode. Instead of using iMovie I tried out eyespot.com. It's not as feature rich as iMovie, but it does a decent job and even allows you to export video for video iPods. Nice. This is the second of two lessons that I recorded at the DEN North East Regional Institute. It has nothin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 84 In this podcast I talk about being famous for fifteen people. In addition to silkscreened soup cans and pop culture icons, Andy Warhol gave us the quote "Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." This statement has often been rehashed as people earned their own 15 minutes of fame (American Idol rejects, anyone?), but nowadays it's more likely that everyone will be famous for fifteen people (according to people like Steve Dembo). Don't believe me? Well, you're already famous ... ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 83 In this episode I touch on the highlights of the DEN National Leadership Conference. It's been over 72 hours since the National Leadership Conference ended, but I've still brought a lot of the event home with me. Most noticeable are the aches and pains from being more active than I'm used to, but also a perpetually running nose that forces me to sniffle at odd times. I guess my body's trying to prove to my mind that it's not young anymore, but don't worry - my mind is still thor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America Revealed: A Foreign Perspective At the DEN National Leadership Conference my team made an awesome video with the help of Josh Wolff from Discovery Educator Abroad. Don't forget to watch the outtakes at the end. They were too funny to not add. (It's not that I'm self-centered, it's just that I screwed up more than anyone else so I'm in most of the outtakes.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Podcast? While at the DEN National Leadership Conference I was interviewed by some first time podcasters. They did a great job, so I thought I'd share the show with you. Want to hear more DEN members getting their feet wet with podcasting? Check out the conference's Gcast page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 80 In today's podcast I try out Google SketchUp, a cool program available for Windows and, yes, now for Macs as well. A while back another DEN member (whose name I forget - sorry!) blogged about Google SketchUp, a free program that makes it very easy to design in 3D and export your creations into different formats including Google Earth. My initial response was that it looked like a cool program, but I was disappointed that they didn't have a version that would run on a Mac. (Remember, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 77 In today's podcast I discuss the pros and cons of BubbleShare.com. Yes, I'm still wrapping up my experiences from last week's conference, but don't worry - today I'm only going to mention it a little. It seems that every time I go to an event sponsored by the Discovery Educator Network they teach me how to use PhotoStory. Now PhotoStory IS a nifty program that lets you combine photos and audio to create slideshows, but since it's distributed freely by Microsoft, it's Windows only. I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 76 In today's podcast, I talk about Steve Dembo's presentation on "Office 2.0." Last night I slept in my own bed - something I hadn't done since a week ago, thanks to a trip to Pennsylvania to see my father-in-law and attend the Northeast Regional DEN event. Yes, I know I've been talking about it a lot, recently, but any time you have 50 educators from 8 different states getting together to learn about technology integration I feel that I can't say enough. Will Richardson wasn't the o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 75 More from the Northeast Regional DEN Event ... now with 100% better audio quality! It's after midnight, so it's a little late in the day for podcasting (or early, depending on your perspective), but here I am. I was tempted to just whip out my phone and do another quick and dirty recording, but instead I decided to belay any fears that I was going to stick to the low quality format from Monday. It's taken a while for me to make my podcasts sound as good as they do, and while I know ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 73 Today I talk about the third and final part of my summer listening list: "Radio Leo." Hello to everyone, and congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dembo . For more details, head over to Teach42.com. Next week I plan to be podcasting from the Northeast Regional DEN Event at Valley Forge, but today I'd like to continue with my summer listening list. The first true podcast (as in audio distributed via an RSS feed) I ever listened to was Leo Laporte's weekend radio show, "The Tech Guy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 71 In my 71st podcast I begin going over my summer listening list. Teachers (at least the good ones) give it their all during the school year. For 180 days, not including weekends and holidays, we grade tests, write lesson plans, and brave rooms full of thirty screaming children armed with only a collection of mismatched paintbrushes, watercolors, and enough blank paper for every kid to have one sheet. Then summer hits, and we crawl into our dens to hibernate through the warm summer mon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 70 Today's podcast's subject was changed at the last moment, as I thought this was a good time to remind everyone to think about who their audience is - that task is more important than you might realize. Remember a podcast or two ago when I talked about Flickr blocking some pictures? Looks like I actually scooped Wired News, as today they posted an article on the exact same thing. Granted, they had the clout to interview some of the big names out there, but at least I actually mentio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 69 I've been putting some thought into my mini lessons. If you've been subscribed to my site for a while then you've seen the five short videos I did to teach different projects that I thought were neat and / or unique. You've also noticed that I haven't done any for quite some time. I could tell you that it's because I haven't had the time. After all, it takes a lot longer to process video than it does to process audio. I could also say that some computer problems a while back cause ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 68 Many of you are already familiar with that great photo sharing site known as Flickr, but have you ever heard of NIPSA?NIPSA came to my attention when I was searching Flickr for photos tagged with "Second Life." I'll admit it, that game is very addictive, and one of the ways I find neat places to explore is to look at photos placed online on various sites.Well, I started to run into some discussion about photos and whole accounts being marked as NIPSA. NIPSA? What was that? Naturally I d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 67 In this podcast I address one of the most feared questions ever. As I'm typing this I'm just finishing part 2 of the Edupodder Pizzacast. (Part 1's here, FYI.) Edupodder is a blog/podcast focussing mostly on topics that would be of interest to journalism majors in college, but naturally there's plenty of overlap since blogging is itself a form of journalism. (It's role in journalism is still being debated, but there it is.) Their "pizzacast" was a meeting of teachers, students, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 66 In this podcast I play with RSS feeds.A while back I ran into a problem. I'm sure you've had it too, but I'll tell you about it anyway.I came to the conclusion that I didn't have enough RSS feeds in my aggregator.(Ok, I'm assuming that most of you know what an aggregator is since there's a good chance you're using one right now to see this. An RSS aggregator checks blogs for you so you don't have to. Check out Bloglines - that one's my favorite.)I came to the decision that I wasn't subsc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 65 In this podcast I lament the possible upcoming drought of educational blogs/podcasts, then review my plans for next year's Art Club. This is the time of year when educators (at least in this hemisphere) start talking about the fast approaching summer vacation. Last year there was a trend among the edubloggers and edupodcasters - one that involved paying more attention to the real world than the blogosphere. I understand this perfectly. Frankly, when I'm visiting my father-in-law in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 64 Today's podcast is one of those stories where a problem leads to a better solution. A couple days ago Ourmedia had a rather interesting glitch. Ourmedia.org, as you may or may not know, is a free, snazzy interface that allows you to upload almost any media file you wish to Archive.org's servers. Archive.org provides everyone with lots of space, but their method of uploading files is a little more ... involved. In any case, after recording my Podcast # 62 I tried to upload it to Ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 63 I'd like to make a clarification on my last podcast. When I talked about Second Life not being the best place for education, I was referring specifically to the standard model that most administrators would probably try out. Mainly: "Hey, let's make a virtual classroom and have all of the students hang out in the same room while the teacher teaches." You can do meetings like this, but really they would be little more than bandwidth heavy chat rooms. There is, however, another way. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 62 My 62nd podcast is mostly my opinion of Second Life. Second life is a fun, addictive game that can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Since users are encouraged to create modifications/additions/etc. there is a growing movement striving to see how Second Life could help educators. I'm not convinced, but that's just my opinion. That being said, it's still addictive. Here's some sites that have dissenting opinions: Pathfinder Linden is a Second Life employee who ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 61 In my 61st podcast I'm starting my end-of-year inventory and talking about the difference between message boards and blogs. Not much in the way of show notes for this one, I was just talking while I worked on organizing the things in my office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baltimore's WTC Did you know Baltimore has its own World Trade Center? Well it does, andhere it is.Learn what Wikipedia has to say aboutthis building. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Dembo knows your permanent record! Do you?Seriously though, I was hoping to record a podcast tonight but my voice just isn't into it right now. Instead, how about you listen toSteve's latest endeavor? He even hashis PowerPointonline for you.During his presentation he makes a good point about starting off with a strictly controlled environment, then opening it up slowly as the students become more responsible. I've been thinking for a while now about moving this blog to a server capable of handlingWordPressthis summer, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baltimore Inner Harbor's Power Plant The "Power Plant" was once just that, but now it has the best looking storefronts in the Inner Harbor. Learn more here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mildred Belle Watch this video to learn about this floating classroom that used to be a Buy Boat. This is more footage from the Discovery Educator Network's "Capture the Inner Harbor" event. I'm slowly going through everything and placing it online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Aesthetic Podcast 60 - Baffled By Blogging My 60th podcastis a recording of my session at MICCA. (I talked about blogging, as you can see in the title.) I promised to have it up on the same day, so here you go.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Links:discoveryeducatornetwork.comBlogging 101(My Wiki about blogging)Room132.com(The class blog maintained by Bre Pettis)Weblogg-ed(The website of Will Richardson, a pioneer in edu-blogging)Technorati.com(Google for blogs)OpenOffice.org(Just like Microsoft Office ... but FREE)Blogger.com(My blog host)Blog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Visionary Art Museum This 2.4 MB video is more or less an ad for the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Listen |