BuzzLion for the week of March 9

Posted on March 5, 2008 
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The weather outside if frightful. But ETS’s work is delightful. Or something like that. Anyway, here is the BuzzLion for the week of December 9…..

ETS Director Cole Camplese is finding that creating podcasts is getting easier and easier. He also shared a podcast for a course he is teaching next semester with Scott McDonald, Disruptive Technologies for Learning.

“What that means to me is that I can open QT Player anywhere, record audio/video, and instantly publish it to our Podcast Producer Server. I haven’t looked at it beyond that, but it certainly makes me realize there is big power coming together here. With a chain like iTunes U, Podcast Producer, simple creation tools, and facilities on campus to help people make digital content, sharing just got a whole heck of a lot easier.”

ETS instructional designer Elizabeth Pyatt finds that the Web 1.0 Web site tool Dreamweaver still has some advantages, including benefits to converting Word files to Dreamweaver CS3.

“I know we’re supposed to be getting away from the older Web 1.0 way of doing things, but since I’ve gone back to the Dark Side of Dreamweaver Development, I thought I would mention some benefits of converting Word files to Dreamweaver.”

ETS programmer Chris Stubbs offers an interesting look at the social potential for video games and why it hasn’t been met.

“Back in October, Dr. Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) speaking at the SIEGE conference, attempted to answer the question of what would be required in order for video games to be relevant in a cultural sense. His answer, in a highly oversimplified form, was that the importance of games could only be determined with the help of historical perspective, and would be predicated on their ability to accurately capture some aspect of the human condition.”

ETS virtual world expert Brett Bixler alerts us to a conference that would be of interest to those involved in educational gaming here.

“Living Game Worlds IV will focus on the theme of networked play and engage dialogues on the rapidly growing domain of multiplayer games and virtual worlds, including online networked entertainment as well as pervasive, mobile and tangible gaming.”

ETS ANGEL documentation team leader Jeff Swain posts this month’s ANGEL Short.

“RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and is a Web format used to gather frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, or podcasts. Content in an RSS format is read using a feed reader, also called an RSS aggregator, such as the RSS Headlines tool in ANGEL.”

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