A woman juror has been arrested after she was allegedly caught listening to an MP3 player hidden beneath her hijab during a murder trial in London.

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One Day Podcast File

Probably the most interesting thing I have heard on this subject is that “Fair Use” is an argument made in court! So be careful. It is always good to have infromation like this handy….

Podcast Legal Guide

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Podsafe Music Network

Here is the grandaddy of all podsafe music!This site allows you to use any songs in your podcast. In fact artisit that post on the site agreeing to terms including the right for people to use their songs in a podcast. See the terms here.

What you as a podcaster must agree to is:

•You agree to report back to the system every track played
•You give credit to the artist both during your show and in your show notes
•You give credit to the Podsafe Music Network

One trick to this site is you must register with them before you can download music. You must have a valid RSS before they will let you login! They make it very easy to download songs (most are free) and report when you use their music. Great site and works good, there are so many songs it might be difficult to find ones that you like.

Here are the podcasts I find both useful and interesting. All of these can be found on iTunes, you can also download episodes off their web sites. I listen to these every week when there are posts, and I have put in my descriptions ones that have had some inappropriate language, but this is only occasionally and not frequent in any. One word of caution, I do tend toward the geeky side!

Buzz Out Loud

Daily podcast hosted by Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont that covers daily tech news. This podcast is posted very regularly and is normally posted in the afternoon. I generally listen the next day, but you could listen to it in the evenings too!

DL.TV Digital Life TV

Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron this podcast (video and audio) tends to be much more techie than any of the others and goes into more detail into specific products. It is a regular podcast that comes out on Tuesday and Thursday. You can also watch this streamed live from their web sites. The recently changed the time and I think it is live around 3 p.m. EST.

TWiT This Week in Tech

This is hosted by Leo Laporte of the old TechTv. Leo brings in many other hosts to talk about the tech news of the week. Generally lasts about one hour and is safe for high school listeners. They can get a bit campy sometimes. This podcast spawned several other podcasts and is now more of a network. There are several other podcasts at www.twit.tv.

Windows Weekly

Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte host this somewhat weekly podcast about MS Windows issues, new and upcoming projects.

Fly With Me

This is as close as I get to a podcast for just fun! Joe Deon a pilot with a “major airline” takes you in the cockpit to hear some interesting stories from both other airline workers, passengers and anyone else he can get to allow him to record them. He does an excellent job and this is a great sounding podcast. Since becoming a captain, I have noticed a sharp drop in the posting on this podcast but….still worth a listen!! There are occasionally some bad words so use with caution in the classroom.

After a teacher confiscated an iPod in class, two students assaulted him in the hallway breaking his neck. While not paralyzed he does have two broken vertebrae.

Read the article here….Teacher Assaulted

Update on Teacher Here

Great article that discusses some technology trends that should be on all our radars!

PDF of Article

eSchoolNews Link

Here are a couple of great resources for podcasting!

Podcasting KWL and Adoption-level Podcast Uses

Podcasting

Here are a couple of articles for your consideration! Enjoy

Building for 2020

Education on Demand

Banning iPods on New York Streets 

Here is a document that gives a great overview of podcasting!

Podcasting

One of the biggest benifits of using Firefox are the extensions. I have a few favorites that I like to install on Firefox, there are lots of these but here are my favorites….

GooglePreview

Brings up a screen shot of the page within Google searches.

GooglePreview

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/189/

Google Video Downloader

Adds a button to the lower right hand corner of the brower screen that allows you to download video from sites like, Google Video, YouTube and others!

Google Video Downloader

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Google Browser Sync

Allows you to synchronize bookmarks and other browser settings on different computers…even on different platforms! !

Google Browser Sync

http://tools.google.com/firefox/browsersync/index.html

Google Notebook

With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add clippings to your notebook. You don’t ever have to leave your browser window.

Google Notebook

del.icio.us

Keep, share and discover all your favorite things. This is the “classic” official extension for del.icio.us, updated to work with Firefox 2.0.

del.icio.us

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532/

Dekalb Podcast

 
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podcast docs

Short Presentation

Gwinnett Presentation

 
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Stephen Rahn from the ETTC @ KSU has created this presentation on RSS. Enjoy!

RSS Presenation

Check out Stephen’s web site and blog….

Blog

Web Site

Introduction this is the audio file….

Show Notes….

TWiT

Joe Podcaster aka Joe Deon

Mabry Middle School

Music Links…

Little Thom (opening and closing music) …ok really check this guy out…he lists prime numbers as influences

Smokehouse Ramblers

Podsafe Music Network

 
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This is the company that hosts this site. I have not used them very long but so far I am very happy with their support. Most problems were fixed within minutes. The down side is that this the only way to contact them! Not sure how that will work but so far so good! They also offer a Moveable Type site too!
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Livingdot.com

Podcast Presentation

This is the presentation in PDF format on Podcast.

Fly With Me

This is one of my favorite podcasts. He is not updating them as much as he used to but what a great example of what a podcast can be! Enjoy this one!

Blue Host

Offers one basic plan, with 15 gigs of storage and one click installation of several popualr web sites (WordPress, Moodle, ect.) price ranges from 6.95 - 9.95 depending on contract length.

Offers Several Plans from $2.99 to $99 a month.

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Creative Commons Audio

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. We’re a nonprofit organization. All of our tools are free.

jamendo 

jamendo operates based on following rules :

  • We publish online music and links for online music under Creative Commons licenses. Any publication that doesn’t agree to this licensing agreement is immediately removed from our website, along with any of its references. We reserve the right to prosecute anyone who intentionally publishes on jamendo music that they do not have the rights to.
  • We are not an exclusive representative for artists who appear on our website. Artists are free to promote and distribute their music with all other means, subject to the limitation of the copyright.
  • We use a system of rating based on the opinions of our listener community. Only the listeners can give an opinion and influence the visibility of an album and its artist on the website.
  • We make a reasonable and moderate use of advertising.
  • Our downloadable archives on peer-to-peer networks are free of any advertisment.
  • We are committed to exclude all “explicit” content (sex, racism, …) both in the music and in the advertisements.

jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music.

On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their music freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century.

These new rules make jamendo able to use the new powerful means of digital distribution like Peer-to-Peer networks such as BitTorrent or eMule to legally distribute albums at near-zero cost.

jamendo users can discover and share albums, but also review them or start a discussion on the forums. Albums are democratically rated based on the visitors’ reviews. If they fancy an artist they can support him by making a donation.
jamendo is the only platform that joins together :

  • A legal framework protecting the artists (thanks to the Creative Commons licenses).
  • Free, simple and quick access to the music, for everyone.
  • The use of the lastest Peer-to-Peer technologies
  • The possibility of making direct donations to the artists.
  • An adaptive music recommendation system based on iRATE to help listeners discover new artists based on their tastes and on other criterias such as their location.

This is an excellent free hosting service. One of my favorites for sure. You get 100mb of storage and so far this has not been widely blocked by the school web filters!

Google Pages

podpics

This is great option for recording on the go! Very portable and good sound too. I am using a Shure SM58 Microphone here. Marantz PMD660

 
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Higher End Setup

Notice this post says higher end and not “high” end. High end equipment could included microphones that cost more than all of these components together! Complete Professional

 
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