CALIOPOLIS

I came home from the store just now and was listening to a fascinating discussion about RSS and the transparency of corporations and business models of blogging and aggregation. When I hit the driveway, I sat in my car for a few moments because the discussion wasn’t over yet I didn’t want to turn off […]

Interesting article that speaks to one of the main experiments we are conducting with the Legal Education Podcasting Project: Classroom recordings vs. Weekly summaries. "…Recording a lecture may not produce a good podcast. This point was madeby a colleague, Michael Rappa, who produced podcasts for his Fall 2005course. His says, "It is not as simple […]

A recent survey by Kineo of the use of audio for learning provides some insights for the law faculty podcasters. You can listen to a Matt Fox of Kineo walk you through the survey results here. The best tip … …And a best practice tip? Make sure audio learning is sufficiently andsuitably chunked for non-linear […]

DemoPodcastLesson3.mp3 This is another prototype of CALI lessons as podcasts. In this one, I used a text-to-speech application and AT&T Natural Voices (one for the narrator and a different one for the instructor) instead of my own recorded voice. I think it sounds pretty good, but I plan to listen to it several more times […]

DemoPodcastLesson2.mp3 This is the same audio file, but I added some page-change sound effects – just to see if it adds anything or if its too distracting. This is very subtle stuff – have to walk a thin line between giving the listener audio context and jarring them out of the zone of listening and […]

DemoPodcastLesson.mp3 The podcast linked to this post is a manually created simple prototype of my idea of CALI lessons as podcasts. I simply read the portions into Audacity using my laptops on-board microphone – nothing fancy here. It does demonstrate some of the ideas that I was thinknig about . There is some intro music […]