Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Burks on Podcasting

Hi! This podcast is about podcasting - that is, the nuts and bolts of how I create a podcast and get it to my iPod - using free software. Here are links to some of the sites I mention in the podcast:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - software for creating mp3 files
http://www.blogger.com/ - web-based software for creating a blog
http://www.blogspot.com/ - a website for publishing blogs
http://burkso2.blogspot.com/ - my blog
http://burkso2.blogspot.com/atom.xml - the XML file in Atom
http://www.sharpreader.net/ - an RSS news aggregator
http://www.feedburner.com/ - a website for converting Atom to RSS
http://feeds.feedburner.com/B2OnLearning - the RSS feed for my blog
http://www.apple.com/itunes/ - software for "podcatching"

Don't forget - you can access the mp3 file with this podcast directly by clicking on the orange title above.

-- Burks

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Sloan-C Quality Pillars

Hi everyone! Today's podcast deals with the Sloan-C quality pillars in both qualitative and quantitative terms. For more information about the Sloan-C quality pillars, see:

http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/books/qualityframework.pdf

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/podcasts/Pillars_Transcript.html

The music in today's podcast is Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat - Allegretto, recorded at the Mainly Mozart Festival - see:

http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/mainlymozartfestival/