Psychology and More

Humble Daisy has created a $35 application that automates the synchronization of screen images and lecture audio in an enhanced podcast. It captures the lecture audio, and notes when you change slides, and creates all the chapter information.

This may be the boost I need to put my lecture notes into Keynote or PowerPoint format…

ProfCast - About ProfCast:

Role:

ProfCast is an application to record presentation given by a teacher. It records the audio, the slides, the animations and the timing of the slide change to publish the lecture as a Podcast after the presentation.

Goal:

Make the process for recording a presentation and publishing it as simple as possible. More Importantly it was decided that no complexity should be added to the process of setting up for a presentation.

Solution:

The interface was kept simple. More importantly we limited the number of questions asked prior to giving the presentation. Moreover we were able to keep the number of clicks to start a presentation to the same number that it would take if the presentation was simply done using PowerPoint or Keynote.

Technorati Tags: podcasting, teaching

Tama’s eLearning Blog covers a Newsweek story about “Course Casting,” the act of making lecture material available through Podcasting. Since that is my current experiment in pedagogical methods, imagine my delight when I found out another community college professor is doing something very similar. Read on to the comments in this entry:

Course Casting in the Media:

Yes, visuals, video and the physical presence of lecturers can be extremely important. That’s why almost no one would ever consider replacing lectures, but rather allowing student the flexibility to re-visit the lecture later, or to hear it if they were sick!

Technorati Tags: podcasting, community college, teaching

Since we’re covering Neuroscience in General Psychology, here’s something for ya. The ever-omniscient Mind Hacks covers a place called “Brain Mart” where you can get - you guessed it - brains! Well, maybe not real brains, but enough brain stuff to max out your credit card.

Mind Hacks: Is that a brain charm in your pocket?:

Brain Mart, an online shop for everything (and I mean everything) brain-related. They sell a great deal of educational material as well as a range of ‘brain novelties’.

Technorati Tags: neuroscience, psychology

My latest General Psychology podcast is available. If you’re subscribed to this weblog feed (http://danaleighton.edublogs.org/feed/) in your podcast reader, it should be able to detect the new episode.

This episode covers Chapter 1 of William James’ Principles of Psychology (published 1890). Also neuroanatomy and brain anatomy and function.

UPDATE (June ‘06):
Download using this link to subscribe (if you have iTunes).

If not, subscribe to the following feed: http://homepage.mac.com/danaleighton/podcast/General_Psychology_Lectures.rss

Well, the experiment begins folks. I have created a Podcast of my lecture from this week. Try this out and listen using your favorite podcast client. Subscribe to http://danaleighton.edublogs.org/feed/ in the podcast client, and the newest podcast will be downloaded automatically.

Some podcast clients:

Free, open-source, multiple platforms:
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

Free, Windows & Mac OS X:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Free, Windows only:
http://www.nimiq.nl/

Shareware, Windows only:
http://www.dorada.co.uk/

Shareware, Mac OS X only:
http://www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/

UPDATE (June ‘06):
Download using this link to subscribe (if you have iTunes).

If not, subscribe to the following feed: http://homepage.mac.com/danaleighton/podcast/General_Psychology_Lectures.rss

This posting initiates a new weblog specifically for my Psychology classes - Psychology and More. Let me know if you encounter any problems reading it or using its features. I will also be commenting on teaching and research in general here, so stay tuned.