bobCast #26 The Steve Eliot Cast The world famous Steve Eliot joins us today to bring us up to date on all the things he has been doing since his retirement 5 years ago. Steve is a special person in my life. He introduced me to the computer and the wonders of technology way back in 1983 right after I came to BCC as the technical director of the Theatre Department on Central Campus. Two of my sons took Steve for Art, while they were students here at the college, and he had them running all over South Florida looking for art. His classes were always the most creative and interesting my sons ever had, and they still talk about them today. Steve is a real teacher's teacher. When you were in Steve's class and the classtime was over, you hated to leave the room. Steve always marched to the sound of a different drum and sometimes the drum didn't even look like a drum at all. The slogan "Why be normal?" fits Steve's approach to life. He has traveled and created video with his trusted Macintosh computer which he was using long before most of the rest of us. Anyway, click on this link to hear my interview with Steve. I hope you enjoy hearing it half as much as I did in recording it.

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bobCast #25 The Christmas Cast – Teachers Talk Tech This is the Christmas Cast for December 19th 2006 In this bobCast we will be talking about some of the new MP3 players on the market and talking about the the different Apple iPods and the Archos 504 and 604 models. And we take a look forward to the new semester where we will be launching our new podcast training for the new iteam associates for podcasting here at BCC. And we give you the new schedule for professional development training for the spring semester. There will be two Professioanl Development Workshops for the Spring Semester. They are Feb. 01,2005 and Feb. 20, 2006. Each of these workshops will last from 1:30pm to 3:30pm and the room(s) and building information will be posted as soon as I know. In this podcast we will cover: A Steve Elliot sighting Discuss and review several MP3 players. Elvis even drops by for a Christmas song. The bobCast wishes everyone and very Merry Christmas and joyous holiday season.

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bobCast #24 The Kyra Cast In this bobcast we meet and talk with Dr. Kyra Belan of the BCC South Campus Art Program. Dr. Belan is the Art Program on South, and she takes time out of her busy schedule to talk with us about herself, the ArtProgram and the new art galley show that is being presented this month in the Art Gallery on South Campus. The show features the work of Zammy Migdal. We include a short recording of the lecture that Mr. Migdal presented at the November 2nd Art Opening. You can hear the entire recording by clicking on the Faculty readings link above. We have a new website for the bobCast. It is located at hppt://www.TheBobCast.com this site contains all the bobCast Links as well links to some of the podcasts recommended by the bobCast. Hope you will stop by soon and check it out.

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bobCast #23 The Podcast Expo Podcast I. Introduction - What is the Podcast Expo? The Podcast Brothers The Business of Podcasting II. Trip Out To California - Ontarino Convention Center. III. First Day Of The Expo A. Leo Laporte -The TWIT Network B. Ron Moore -BattleStar Galaticia C. Workshops -Podcasts 101 1. Producing For The Ear: Using the Craft of Audio to Capture and Keep the Listener?s Attention -Stacy Bond (NPR) Audiolux 2. Planning your Podcast -Avoiding the Ready FIRE Aim Syndrome - David Jackson: School of Podcasting 3. How to Create and Optimize Your RSS Feed for Maximum Effectivness -Rick Klau -Feedburner What is feedburner? 4. Planning and Building a Podcast Production Studio- Paul Figgiani -The Point Podcast -Putting together the equipment and why. D. Reception -Meeting Dawn and Drew IV Second Day of the Expo A. Andrew Michael Baron -Rocketboom.com -video podcast B. Workshops -Podcast 101 1. Before You Hit ?Record? -Planning Content for Podcasting -Tee Morris -Podcasting For Dummies 2. The Sheer Audacity: How to Get More, in Less Time, from the free Audacity Digital Audio Editing Software -Jerry Franklin -The Good Dog Show Podcast - Recording and post production techniques for creating podcasts. 3. Doug Kaye -IT Conversations -Offered a workshop on audio file types. 4 .Killer InterviewingTactics: How To Get The Most From Your Guests - Gayl Murphy - InterviewTactics.com - Interview Coach for many Authors, Celebrities (Russell Crowe), Politicians (Rudy Giuliani) - Put the shoe on the other foot and talked about how to do a dynamic interview. V. Things I Learned A. Techniques for making not only my podcasts better but things I can pass on to my students in my classes and my fellow faculty in the workshops that I do through the Department of Instructional Technology. B. New audio and video equipment that can be used to improve the quality of my podcasts and help me in recommending equipment to others at the college. C. And lastly the sheer excitement of the new podcast industry and the impact that it is making on the world of mass communications, and how it offers freedom to people to express themselves in business and in the classroom. This is a great mobile technology both from the listener and the producer as well. VI. Idol Worship of Younger People. People in the podcast business are much younger than myself. VII. Don?t forget to sign-up and attend the podcast training workshops held in Central Campus this semester. These are held on the first Friday of each month. Check the Instructional Technology Department Website for details.

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bobCast #22 - It is Not a Sin to Byte an Apple You can find this and all bobCast broadcasts at : http://www.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts Guest Interview: Dr. Pat Ellingham who is at professor of English on BCC South Campus and the Faculty Advisor for the college's magazine publication talks to us about the use of Apple Macintosh computers in the publication of the School’s Magazine P’an Ku, and his thoughts about using technology to teach. Apple in the Technology News: This passed Tuesday September 12th Apple introduced several new additions to the world of Media. The world of media is a world in which Apple is a major player if not the industry leader. Listed below are some of the things that Apple's Steve Jobs announced at this presentation. New iPods 80 Gig Video iPod New iPod Nanos New iTunes 7 Interface Supports video better - 640x480 resolution A media connection box - Code named iTV Workshop Podcast On Friday September 8th the Instructional Technology Department presented the first workshop in the Podcasting series that will be offered this semester. The workshop was held on Central Campus in Building 9 room 102. The workshop covered “Podcatching” or how to go about finding and subscribing to Podcasts. We talked about and showed how to use podcatching software - iTunes being the most outstanding of the applications. The recording made during the workshop can be downloaded at: http://www.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts/workshops ThePowerPoint presentation can be down loaded from the same page and viewed while listening to the podcast recording. Up coming Podcast Expo Sept 29 & 30 in Ontario, CA Second Annual Podcast Expo Some of the biggest names in the world of podcasting will be in attendance. Leo Laporte and the TWITs will be doing a live podcast from the floor of the showroom, and several other podcasters will be doing the same. The bobCast will be broadcasting from the hotel room and I am hoping to make this a special podcast production. Closing Music Selection Mike Chappelear’s recording entitled “Endings”. This like all the music on the bobCast is from the Pod-show Network at http://music.podshow.com .

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bobCast #21 The Mentor & Mentee Podcast Outline for bobCast21 From the South Campus of Broward Community College this is the bobCast #21 Music I was fortunate to speek this week with Mary Diaz who is the director of the Mentor/Mentee program at the college. We met in Mary's Office on Central Campus------- Mary tells about herself. How she came to BCC & how she uses technology in the classroom. "Sorry" by Adrina Thorpe Mary told us about this year's Mentee /Mentor program ----- If you would like to take part in this year's program, I hope you will fill out a application and get it into Mary As soon as possible. Don't forget we have the first workshop in our podcast series this coming Friday Sept. 8th from 1 to 3 on Central Campus. Building 9 / Room 102. We will show how you can learn to podcast and podcatch. We will show how to download and install iTunes. We will show how to use itunes to subscribe to podcasts that you might find useful in your classroom. We will show how to plan and format your own podcast program. You too can be a star! Hope to see each of you at the workshop.

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bobCast #20 The Welcome Back Podcast The Welcome Back Podcast This is the Welcome back podcast for Friday August 25, 2006. The first Duty Day for Fall semester 2006 was at the Omni Auditorium on North Campus. There were a lot of tables setup and people were presenting the things they were doing at the college. This was done last year and it seems that it was an even bigger success this year. Of course Instructional technology was there and we had several tables showing the things we are doing to incorporate technology into the classrooms of Broward Community College. Sharon Rifkin and company with their E- Learning Group WebCt light The new WebCt version 6 Mary Diaz The Mentor&Mentee Project We had the bobCast booth setup and we had several people stop by to say hello. Tech Events for the Fall Semester: We have several Podcasting workshops scheduled for the Fall Semester at BCC. Podcasting Resources: http://www.Lynda.com ...instructional resource website Movies on Technology In-depth online instruction Can be subscribed to Monthly or Yearly The TWIT Podcasting Network ... radio for geeks Nine different podcasts about technology presented by Leo Laporate This Week In Tech ... News from the world of technology Security Now ... Now to improve youe computer security Inside the NET ... what is happening on the internet Daily Giz Wiz ... all types of techno gadgets Mac Break ... Podcast about the macintoshcomputer Musical Selection The closing music for today’s bobCast is by Mark Heimonen ... entitled “Celebration”. This songs as well as all the music on the bobCast can be found at http://music.podshow.com. This is a part of the Podshow Network. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should give it a try. These songs are not that expensive, and most of the money that you pay (if not all) goes to the artist and not some large music company.

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bobCast #19 A Mid-Summer's bobCast In this bobCast, I talk about setting up of two roundtable podcasts, and introduce the newest podcast in town known as the "ToddCast". The ToddCast This podcast is produced and presented by Dr. Todd Westerfeld of the Student Affairs Department on Broward Community College's South Campus. Todd covers events that come under area of Students Affairs which includes some of the workshops to help improve student performance. The ToddCast can be accessed at http:www.broward.edu/~twesterf/podcasts . Check out this podcast and drop us an email and let us know what you think of the new show or even the old show for that matter. You can reach me at rbuford@broward.edu and Todd at twestf@broward.edu . Roundtable Discussions The Broward County Library approached me a few weeks back about creating a podcast on a couple of events they were having at the South Campus. The first of these was Roundtable discussion on Terrorism and the second was Roundtable on Fatherhood in different cultures. The first event was to be held in the "Mass-media Room" of the Library and the second was to be held in what we refer to as the "South Campus Theater" also known as the Teaching Auditorium by some of the old timers at the campus. Check it out. I think you will find it interesting.

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bobCast #18 Finding Good Podcasts Finding Good examples of Podcasts Remember the teacher in school who made you want to attend class so that you wouldn?t miss anything? Not because you might not do well on the final exam, but because you enjoyed the class and you did not want to miss what the teacher had to say. Well podcasting let?s this type of teacher shine. Looking for examples of podcasts I ran across a teacher named Bob Packett who has an easy going style of presentation that makes you want to come back for more. As some of you may know, I enjoy history, and the part of history I like the most is the "people part". Stories of the people from history who shaped the world we live in today. Too many times people get the idea that these people are just characters in a book, but tese were real people who lived and breathed. This prospective makes history come to life for me. Professor Packett does many of the things that makes history interesting while allowing me to learn the important points that make the events important. History According To Bob This is a daily podcast that is produced by a man and wife team. Professor Bob does the recordings and his wife acts as his technical support. She posts the files to his website and creates his RSS feed, and might even post the changes to his website. This podcast can be found at http://www.summahistorica.com or http://www.historyaccordingtobob.com . Discription from website. Professor Bob Packett has been teaching history for thirty-one years. His passion for history permeates his entire life, from the thousands of primary resouce materials in his personal library, to his collection of historical artifacts. Professor Bob loves to tell stories of the real people behind the often sterile descriptions found in history texts. His conversational style, filled with anecdotes, quips, and humor, will bring to life the characters of history. Now, through the technology of podcasting, you can also enjoy what Professor Bob's students have been enjoying for years ? history that comes alive. Check it out. I think you will find it interesting.

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This is the bobCast for The Week of March 20, 2006 It That an class in your iPod on Professional Development Day? This is part of a recording made on Professional Day Feb. 24, 2006. This is an over view of podcasting and using podcast audio in an educational setting. Podcasting can be used to help students cover or review material that they may have missed in regular class meetings. In this podcast we look at some of the software and hardware that makes this possible. While the whole workshop lasted almost one and one half hours this is only a segument of the total workshop. This workshop was presented by David Shulman, Mary Diaz and Robert Buford.

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This is the bobCast for Friday Feb. 3, 2006 TECHNOLOGY NEWS Today we will be looking at the technology news at BCC and the big news item is the the approval of the Podcast Project grant. Podcasting has been called the TiVo of the classroom. In many ways it brings the classroom to the student anytime and any where. Check out Apple's Educational Podcasts @ Itunes U http://itunes.stanford.edu Upcomming workshop on Feb 7th Is That A Class In Your iPod? MUSIC SELECTION 21 Years by 77 South 77 South is recognized as one of the top country groups this side of Nashville. With vocal harmonies rooted in the Beach Boys and Country rhythms like Lonestar and Toby Keith, the band has gained a large following. WORKSHOP PLAYBACK On Janurary 26th the Department of Instructional Technology offered at workshop entiled Small Wonders - Tabletpcs - PDAs-Smartphones & Ipods. This is the first part of the workshop. Second Music Selection by Rob Costlow Checkout all the music at The Podsaft Music Network - http://music.podshow.com

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This is the bobCast for Friday Feb. 3, 2006 TECHNOLOGY NEWS Today we will be looking at the technology news at BCC and the big news item is the the approval of the Podcast Project grant. Podcasting has been called the TiVo of the classroom. In many ways it brings the classroom to the student anytime and any where. Check out Apple's Educational Podcasts @ Itunes U http://itunes.stanford.edu Upcomming workshop on Feb 7th Is That A Class In Your iPod? MUSIC SELECTION 21 Years by 77 South 77 South is recognized as one of the top country groups this side of Nashville. With vocal harmonies rooted in the Beach Boys and Country rhythms like Lonestar and Toby Keith, the band has gained a large following. WORKSHOP PLAYBACK On Janurary 26th the Department of Instructional Technology offered at workshop entiled Small Wonders - Tabletpcs - PDAs-Smartphones & Ipods. This is the first part of the workshop. Second Music Selection by Rob Costlow Checkout all the music at The Podsaft Music Network - http://music.podshow.com

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This time we meet and interview some of the faculty that makeup the "Podcast Group" here at Broward Community College. These faculty members will come together to learn how to podcast and how to apply the technology to their classrooms. In this interview they will discuss their plans as to how they will use this technology in the classroom. Our "Podcast Group" consists of the following South Campus faculty: * Dr. Patrick Ellingham - of the English Department * Prof. Francisco Grisales- Spanish (MFL) * Dr. Kate LeGrand - Office Systems Technology * Prof. Steven Godby - Soc./Bev. Sciences * Prof. Robert Buford (bob) - Speech and Communications Once again we will feature the music of Ms. Adrina Thorpe. I know this is twice in a row but I like the way she sings. I hope you enjoy the podcast and each and everyone has a very Happy New Year and a great semester!

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We wrap our ears around some "podsafe music" from the podsafe music network. This podcast will feature a young lady with a beautiful voice, Adrina Thorpe. The following is the discription from here podsafe music network page: We will talk about some of the podcasting resources that Bob listens to in order to get his dose of teckno news. Digitallife TV http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx This Week In Tech http://twit.tv/ Diggnation http://revision3.com/diggnation And last but not least, we will talk briefly about the up comming "Podcast Project" where several Broward Community College professors try podcasting to develop both audio and video resources for their classrooms.

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This bobCast is a follow-up to the Instructional Technology workshop held this week where we took a look at some of the smaller mobile technology devices on the market. This workshop was entitled Small Wonders: Tablet-PCs, Handhelds,Smartphones & iPods. This is the second of two workshops/demos that Mary Diaz, David Shulman and myself will do at the up coming League Of Innovation Conference in Dallas, TX. In addition to showing and demonstrating some of these devices, we discuss how they might be enployed in a classroom setting. Several people arounf the college were not able to attend this event and this podcast is intended to share with them some ofthe information that they might have missed.

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This week we meet with Professor Sharon Rifkin and speak with her about WebCT Lite and the workshops that the e-learning team is putting together to introduce this new effort to spread the use of technology in the classroom. We, also, talk with Dr. Greg Reeder about his workshops on Computer Performance System (?clicker?) technology. This new technology helps the students provide feedback to the teacher in real time and provives the teacher with a better insight into how well the students understanfd the material covered in class. David Shulman and Mary Diaz and I discuss the workshop "Is That a Class in Your iPod?". This workshop provides the attendee with an understanding of what procasting is, how it is created and how it can be enployed as a teaching tool by faculty. A couple of strange characters (other than Bob) and some great "podsafe" music round out the lineup. "Put Your Ears" on and give us a listen!

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This week we meet with Mary Diaz of the Instructional Technology Department's Mentor/ Mentee project. Mary tells us about the program, and how faculty at the college can get involved and become mentors or mentees. We travel to South Campus for the opening of the Art Gallery's first show of the year which features Latin American Art. Patrick "Jethro" Ellingham, the bobCast raving reporter, has talk with both Professor Kyra Belan, the director of the South Campus Art Gallery and Raul Oyuela, the director of the Museum of the Americas in Miami, FL. In addition, we Take a walk with the Jim Morrison and Oscar the Grouch in a Mashup.

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Thursday August 22 was the first day back to work for many folks at Broward Community College . We started off the new academic year with a general meeting at the Omini auditorium on the BCC North Campus. This year we started with an Informational Market Place where different programs and activites around the college were setup to show their finer points and offerings, and of course, the bobCast was there to capture the excitement of the moment!

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Today's bobCast includes an interview with Russ Adkins and the bobCast's first musical segment provided by Robert Koppelman of the BCC English Department on the Central Campus. Also included is a BCC News segment in which we talk about the tabletPC and the HP grant awarded to the Central Campus Biology Department. We introduce a new software called Castblaster. Castblaster is a new software from The Podshow Network for creating podcasts, and we introduce our new bobcast podcast format.

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On Thursday June 23 I attended the Emerging Technologies Conference held at The University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. This conference was a part of the Partnership for the Advancement of Distributed Learning program at the University. This workshop covered several of the newer technologies that are being used by faculty in the classroom. These technologies include blogs, vlogs, podcasting, rss feeds, news aggregators and exposure to several different types of portable devices such as iPods, PDAs and Blackberry devices. This podcast discusses some of the information and ideas that were presented and how these technologies might be employed in the mobile classroom.

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In this bobCast we take a look at using the technology of podcasting as a teaching tool. Several students from my Introduction To Speech Communication class give a classroom presentation on decisions that they have made regarding their group discussion project. In the project the students must select two people from a list to recieve scholarships that will allow these people to complete four years of college. Should they base their choices on merit or on need? Podcasts such as this will allow the students from different classes to hear what other students with the same assignments have to say about their solution to the same problems.

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In this week's bobCast, we meet with Professor Mary Diaz and with David Shulman thrown in for good measure. The "IT War Room" (a.k.a. The Roasted Bean) is the scene. We discuss the up coming League of Innoviation's CIT Conference to be held Oct. 2005 in Dallas, TX. Mary, David and I have been invited to present at the League on new upcomming technologies such as "podcasting", and explore some of the technologies making news, which may soon find their way into our classrooms as teaching tools.

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Today I talk with David Shulman of the Instructional technology Department at Broward Community College. We discuss the up coming plans for mobile technology at the college and some of the plans for the summer workshop on digital music and podcasting.

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Welcome to the bobCast program for April 25th 2005. Today we take a look at e-learning at Broward Community College. In this podcast, I interview Sharon Parker and Sharon Rifkin about e-learning and it's role and future at the college.

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Welcome to the bobCast program for April 18th 2005. Today we take a look at podcasting. How it got started and how it can be accessed by the user and used as a mobile source of information.

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Welcome to my first real podcast. In this podcast I will welcome everyone to the new bobCast podcast and explain what I hope to do with the podcast format.

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Welcome to my test podcast of the bobCast which I will use to support my speech classes here at the college

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Welcome to the second test of the podcast process. I hope to learn more about podcasting as I go along. It seems to be taking me a long time!

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