San Diego EDTEC

In this episode, a screencast takes a look at some of the masters courses and EDTEC 684, our class on project management. This class, like many of our classes has students on campus and online. We briefly look at the themes of the course and you get a look at the course management software moodle and the conferencing software Breeze, two of the tools we use to facilitate interaction between the students on campus and online.



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Wed. Oct 25th, is the undergraduate career fair where juniors and seniors of any major can learn about the best career out there. What is that career? Well, it's a career that can take on many different job titles, instructional designer, educational technologist, performance consultant, and more. We'll hear from companies around San Diego that are here to tell you why they hire EDTEC grads.




This podcast is just the teaser. We'll come back with some interviews from the career fair in a future episode. You will get sample of what Robin Martin, former co-host, and instructional designer at Mission Federal Credit Union will be saying at the event on the 25th.

I'll point you to the student projects from the EDTEC 700 course on Educational Podcasting.

We'll get a visit from SAGE president Chrissy Chamberlain. When IS the holiday party? Find out here.


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We run a course on Educational Podcasting here at SDSU. It's a one unit course held this Saturday September 16 and again on September 30th. I'm busy prepping for the class this week, but will continue with more episodes throughout the academic school year.

In future episodes, we'll get back to more of a radio format, but this week I'm sharing some of the course materials. I did two screencasts on one of my new favorite sites, ODEO. I may do more for the class on the other sites/programs we're using. (We're covering feedburner.com, iTunes, and Garageband. )

The first screencast covers how and why you should set up an ODEO account, and the second screencast shows some of the ways to record your show. I thought about putting them up on my new favorite site, youtube.com but decided to make them available for download instead.

Each screencast is in an iPod friendly format that will play for anyone with quicktime installed on their machine.

The Week in Geek

Blog: CogDogBlog - online technologies for teachers
Site: Tagworld - social networking
Podcast: TWIT (This Week in Tech)
Book: The World is Flat Friedman, Thomas.


Spotlight Discussion

Allison Rossett follows up her talk on 3 types of blended learning with a look at how the role of the training professional will be impacted by blended learning.


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Allison Rossett shares 3 types of blended learning.
Robin Martin joins as co-host for the Week in Geek

Show Notes and Links

Learn about:

Odeo.com
Yackpack.com
Creating Passionate Users
Connect Learning
Freakonomics
Nike and Apple's new product

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We'll be looking at careers in Edtec in an upcoming show. A lot of flexibility in our field, which means there's a lot of different job titles.

What's the best Edtec job title you know of?

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The Week in Geek
Wikipedia
Screencast of the evolution of a wikipedia entry. (Thanks to John Udell for the tip.)
Walmart pays Wikipedia Lobbyists (via Kairosnews)
Wikipedia meets Google Earth at placeopedia.com

Freebies
thinkfree.com is an open source online version of MS Office, similiar to writely.com

Local Events
ISPI - Thursday May 18 at Wine Steals
ASTD - Wed. May 24th, former winners of ASTD Organization of the Year (download flyer)

Spotlight Discussion
Guests at the Alumni Event weigh in on opportunities abound for those with EDTEC degrees.

Our first show was submitted to the iTunes Music Store and is now available for free download. You can access it by visiting the podcast section and doing a search for the name of our show, San Diego EDTEC

OR....

Click here to subscribe in iTunes. Imagine, a piping hot episode of San Diego EDTEC delivered fresh every other week to your iTunes. Once you've subscribed it just goes out and gets the latest episode without any effort on your part.

Ahem, that is, it'll do it automatically unless you've changed your settings. But if you've been fiddling around in your settings, you're probably savvy enough to figure out how to update your podcasts.

For those of you who don't use iTunes, there are links to our RSS feed on the right.

Last night I broke a bottle of champagne over my laptop to celebrate the launch of the SD Edtech podcast series.

You can download the first episode, subscribe to the RSS feed, or listen to us on iTunes.

The first episode runs 22 minutes and includes:

• Excerpts from Bernie Dodge's EDTEC 700 class on Educational Podcasting
  
• The first of a two part series with Fred Saba looking at the learning system of the future
• The IVIE Project - Innovative Videos in Education
  
• Freebies- Bloglines.com
• Allison Rossett breaks down the upcoming Alumni Event at SDSU on April 28th.
• ASTD is hosting a luncheon on April 26th featuring Tamar Elkeles Qualcomm’s Learning & Organizational Development Center (download flyer)

Please feel to share any comments, cheers, or jeers below. - Karl Richter

The new web is a place for dialogue, and in the spirit of Web 2.0 I'm trying to encourage as much participation from the audience of this series as possible. This series can be a success if it delivers matches content with what the audience is looking for. I have ideas of what will make a good show, but I don't know for sure, so I'm asking the audience.

To encourage participation, I'm hosting a contest. The name San Diego EDTEC is descriptive, but it's far from clever. That's why we need a good tagline. Do you have any recommendations? We'll be running this contest for the next 4 (or more) weeks, then we'll look at our suggestions and pick our new tagline.

I'm Karl Richter, the host of the San Diego EDTEC podcast series. In this preview, a fellow EDTEC student, Chrissy Chamberlain, and I shared thoughts on podcasting and audience participation. In this episode, we talk through our plans for this site and the series. My personal highlight was when I messed up my own name.

You can listen to our preview episode here.

This is the home for the San Diego EDTEC podcast series.