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.



download the .mov file here

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.

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?

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.