On December 3, 2008 San Jose State University student Ruchi Binjola, SJSU History Lecturer Rajiv Khanna and SJSU graduate Kamlesh Kudchadkar discuss the recent bombings in India with SJSU Journalism Lecturer Steve Sloan. The conversation begins with Binjola and Kudchadkar and continues when Khanna joins the conversation. This "open mic" podcast conveys the feelings and thoughts of members of the SJSU community. One of the speakers lost a friend to terrorism in Mumbai. The thoughts and emotions expressed here are just as they occurred in the conversation.

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On December 4, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Podcaster and Media Producer Justin Beck spoke to San Jose State University journalism students about podcasting and new media. As SJSU School of Journalism and Mass Communications professor Cynthia McCune reported in the JMC Journal Blog, "Beck talked with students about the process of developing and producing a podcast. He said one of the most important steps of the process is creating a tape log -- a rough or complete transcript of each interview -- with time codes noted so you'll be able to go back and find the clips you want to use."

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The unedited September 26, 2006 presentation to our Journalism 163 class at San Jose State University by Phil Wolff. Wolff is the Managing Editor for the online magazine Skype Journal. Wolff speaks here about Skype, the recent events surrounding the proposed ban of Skype at SJSU and the world of Web 2.0 technologies. All opinions given, as always, are those of the speakers.

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This presentation by Robert Scoble was recorded September 12, 2006 during the third meeting of our class, Journalism 163. This unedited presentation is targeted toward journalism and mass communications students. It is presented here just as it happened. Scoble talks about his days at SJSU, how he got into blogging, the impact of blogging and how the worlds of journalism, business and advertising have been changed by blogs. He gives a lot of advice to the students in the class and answers their questions. All opinions given, as always, are those of the speakers.

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This conversation with Robert Scoble was recorded September 12, 2006 before the third meeting of our class, Journalism 163. This unedited conversation happened before our class. Present in this podcast is Professor Lilly Buchwitz, Journalism Student Mark Powell, Professor Cynthia McCune and myself. All opinions given, as always, are those of the speakers.

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An introduction to Journalism 163. A multi-media course in The School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU focusing on Web 2.0 technologies.

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Blogher from an education perspective. Recorded on July 29, 2006, day two of Blogher, educators from all levels discus edublogging and Web 2.0 technologies.

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What is it like to be an Indian student at San Jose State University? Kamlesh Kudchadkar is a graduate student from the College of Engineering and he shares his experiences, opinions and perspectives in this podcast recorded on June 6, 2006 in downtown San Jose, 21:17 duration, 19.5 MB.

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At a geek dinner in San Jose, students, faculty, staff and Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame continue the conversation about a new media class, Journalism 163, planned at SJSU. Speaking, in addition to Gabe, are Keith Callenberg, Evan Luine, Andrew Venegas, Joshua Marx, Cynthia McCune, Ryan Sholin, Lambert Lum, and Steve Sloan.  This is the second of two conversations recorded at a San Jose Pizzeria on May 23, 2006, 01:00:34 duration, 55.4 MB.

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At a geek dinner in San Jose, students, faculty, staff and Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame have a conversation about a new media class, Journalism 163, planned at SJSU. Speaking are Keith Callenberg, Evan Luine, Andrew Venegas, Joshua Marx, Cynthia McCune, Ryan Sholin, Lambert Lum, Gabe Rivera and Steve Sloan.  This is the first of two conversations recorded at a San Jose Pizzeria on May 23, 2006, 27:55 min, 26.5 MB.

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Keith Callenberg, Evan Luine and Casey Miller; SJSU students and members of the SJSU Linux Users Group [Link] have a conversation with Steve Sloan about their user group, Linux and open source software. This users group is a recognized student group at SJSU.  They discuss Linux, its use and its potential use on the campus. Recorded April 20, 2006, 25:50 min, 23.7 MB.

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On March 30th 2006 the Commonwealth Club in San Jose put on a forum entitled Who Needs Ink? The Future of Newspapers. This was a timely forum given the recent sale of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain, which includes the Mercury News to McClatchy. Many employees of the Mercury News were in the audience. Students were admitted free. Jim Bettinger, Director of the Knight Fellowships Program, was the moderator. Speakers at the forum were Peter P. Appert, Publishing/Information Services Analyst, Goldman, Sachs; Jerry Ceppos, Former Vice President, Knight Ridder; Dan Gillmor, Director, Center For Citizen Media; Joan Walsh, Editor-In-Chief of Salon, After the forum I asked them some questions directed at journalism education. Finally Zach Davis, an eighteen year old high school journalism student, offered his perspective. 13.2 min, 3MB.

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Lambert Lum, SJSU MBA student and a young entrepreneur talks about the business he started in the campus community, SJSUFood.com. He discusses how his studies prepared him for entrepreneurship and what he feels the university is doing right and what it can do to better prepare students for the business world. Edupodder podcast twenty, 22.1 minutes.

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Podcast nineteen, 22.5 minutes - Long time SJSU Professor of Journalism Steve Greene discusses the concurrent sale of the Knight Ridder chain of newspapers and the announcement of SJSU's participation in Apple Computer's iTunesU initiative. This very candid discussion focuses on the decline of print journalism and the growth of emerging technology as a way of delivering news and the effect that all this is, or is not, having on the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU.

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Podcast eighteen, 63.5 minutes - This is a recording of the 2006 Valentines Day meeting of the learning innovators group at San Jose State. At this meeting we produced a podcast, which was presented here in the Edupodder Podcast as the previous show. This included recording, mixing, down sizing and FTP posting the file to the server. Finally we updated the RSS file that is the podcast. The whole time we recorded the session. There is plenty of conversation about that whole process here.

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Podcast seventeen, 2.2 minutes - This is a demo of doing a podcast. This was produced during the Valentines Day meeting of the learning innovators group at San Jose State University.

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Podcast sixteen, 72.1 minutes - This is a recorded class session on December 6, 2005 in the School of Journalism and Communications at San Jose State University taught by Professor Cynthia McCune. In preparation for this class students read the first few chapters of Dan Gillmor's book We The Media. The topic is, changes in Mass Communications and how students need to prepare for a new mass communications paradigm. As the session opens the words The End of Business as Usual have been written on the board.

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Podcast fifteen, 37.31 minutes - A very fun and candid conversation with Gwen Dapper on December 2, 2005. Gwen is a web developer and an Instructional Technologist from San Jose State University. Gwen has just finished a course description for a proposed class on Podcasting at San Jose State University. She and I talk as we look over her course outline. She hopes to teach this course at San Jose State soon. We discuss this course and the applications of podcasting in education.

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Podcast fourteen, 66.10 minutes - On November 17, 2005 Robert Scoble visited SJSU. The school of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University is considering a reorganization to better prepare students for a the changes technology is bringing to journalism, advertising and public relations. Scoble, a graduate from the school, spoke to the faculty as he showed the faculty examples on the Internet of what he was talking about using his Tablet PC. In his candid talk Scoble told the faculty about how Mass Communications has changed since the years he was a student in the school and about how this new technology evolved and is continuing to evolve. Professor Cynthia McCune recorded the conversation.

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Podcast thirteen, 44.55 minutes - Conversation with San Jose State University professor Steve Greene. Steve discusses the future of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, his journey to four J-schools in four weeks and his proposal to reorganize the school. There's some pretty major changes in this conversation, including a proposal to stop daily publication of the school paper. This conversation occurred October 19, 2005 on the SJSU campus.

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Podcast twelve, 59.52 minutes - Fred Beshears, the University of California Senior Strategist of Educational Technology Services talks about the high cost of textbooks for college and university students. He is proposing application of open source, creative commons solutions, based on the UK Open University, as a partial solution to this serious student cost issue. This conversation occurred September 20, 2005 on the Berkeley campus.

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Podcast eleven, 23.16 minutes - September 29, 2005, SJSU Music Professor and good friend Gus Lease. Professor Lease has been with SJSU since 1950. He joined the California State Employees Association before it was a union. This union now does not include faculty, but then it was an association that everybody who worked at the university could belong to, including managers. He describes how the association evolved and discusses the upcoming statewide meeting.

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Podcast ten, 47.56 minutes - May 19, 2005, Journalism Professor and good friend Steve Greene. Professor Greene has been with the School of Journalism and Mass Communications for 19 years and has recently announced his pending retirement. In this candid conversation professor Greene discusses the move of technology into the school and where he sees it going. Greene also discusses his new mission involving technology. Plus, he discusses the early years of Robert Scoble as a student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University.

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48.15 minutes - This session is a conversation with three students, Mass Communications student Ryan Sholin, Journalism student Daniel Sato and Computer Engineering student Harry Fu. The topic is Emerging Technology, where is it going in higher education? What kinds of things do these students, all of whom are interested in technology, see on the far off horizon and what would they like the future world of education to look like.

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40.57 minutes - This session an interview with SJSU MIS Professor Malu Roldan. Professor Roldan is with the faculty of the Management Information Systems Department at SJSU. She is also the Project Director for SJSU's Mobility project; a Hewlett Packard funded initiative that brings together interdisciplinary project teams to work on technology-enabled projects for community based organizations. She conducts research on engaged pedagogies and on the application of emerging technologies, such as mobile devices, in learning environments.

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This session an interview with SJSU Photojournalism Professor Dennis Dunleavy. Professor Dunleavy uses blogs extensively in his classes. The subject is, where are we now in using emerging technology in education?

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This session is from the CATS 2005 conference in Sacramento, CA on March 15, 2005. The subject is RSS and the audience is higher education academic technologists.

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This session is from the CATS 2005 conference in Sacramento, CA. The subject is podcasting and the audience is higher education academic technologists.

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An introduction to the Adobe InDesign User Interface. Participants will learn about palettes, guides and other UI features.

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An introduction to desktop publishing using Adobe InDesign. Participants will learn skills related to the publication of newsletters, flyers, and other printed materials.

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This podcast features an interview of Abbas Akhtar, a computer science student at San Jose State University. Abbas gives his opinion on the potential of podcasting and the state of technology at the university. Other issues discussed include transparency of information as well as the relationship between blogs, podcasting and CMS software.

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This is the first test of doing a Podcast. It is crude and I have a lot to learn. But, here it is. Podcasting from San Jose State University!

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