Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Creating Accessible Content

The National Center for Accessible Media has created guidelines for creating accessible content on iTues U. The guidelines addresses how to created closed captions, audio descriptions, open and closed captions. Click Here to access the materials on the iTunes Store.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

iTunes U upload issue is fixed

The upload issue has been solved. iTunes U will now upload your podcasts and movies.

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WMU on iTunes U-Upload Issue

Currently we are experiencing issues with uploading podcasts. PDFs will upload. Many locations around the U.S. are reporting the same issue to Apple. I will provide an update as soon as the problem is resolved. Thanks.

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Students who use iTunes U score better than Students in class

A study "iTunes University and the Classroom: Can Podcasts Replace Professors?" was conducted at the State University of New York Fredonia. The research was conducted with two groups of students, those who attended and class and those who listed to podcasts on iTunes University. The results were surprising. Students using iTunes U scored better on tests than those in class. The ability to review information and pause to take notes seemed to play a role in the test results. The class was created for the purposes of research and scores for both groups were low because the class results did not affect actual grades.

For more information click here.

The study was reported in eSchoolNews on March 6, 2009. eSchool news is accessible at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Resources for Web 2.0 teaching activities

Clicking on this link will take you to a website with resources for teaching in the Web 2.0 world. Please provide feedback on this blog and the website by emailing bradley.morgan@wmich.edu or calling 269-387-5363

Thank you.

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Podsafe Music Sources

Macintosh Users: Garageband is included on the Mac platform. Garageband is the application used to create podcasts and includes a large number of musical resources for your use.

On other platforms, I recommend two sources of podsafe music:
Free Play Music Dave's Imaginary Sound Space

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Do student expect technology to be used in their education

Students expect colleges to have technology available to support their learning and professional development. An article from Campus Technology describes the results of research by CDW Government. Please click here to read the entire article.

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