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  • Learning where the money went

    Spent my drive up to Edmonton for Netspeed listening to episodes of the new NPR podcast Planet Money.  Fascinating stuff.  Kinda makes me wish I hadn't taken my final undergraduate semester's Economics class as a pass/fail option.  Since it was P/F, and my last semester, and a 3-hour course to boot, I ended up playing…

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  • Automated Lecture Capture – Camtasia Relay

    Techsmith has launched a new product that automates the process of capturing and distributing lectures.  Camtasia Relay makes use of desktop software (Mac or PC) and a back-end server that handles the encoding and redistribution.  Some good background information in the Techsmith Education Newsletter, where I learned of the product.  Apparently a lecture can be…

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  • AideRSS – Great idea, but…

    Saw a mention of AideRSS go by on Twitter the other day, and just tried it out.  The idea is great – give AideRSS a blog URL and it purports to sift through all the posts and then offer separate feeds to you so you can subscribe to only the “best post” the “great”, “good”…

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  • The Journal of Distance Education – archives now online

    Infobits points out that The Journal of Distance Education has made its complete run of archives (1986-2008) available online.  From their website, “The Journal of Distance Education is an international publication of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE). It aims to promote and encourage Canadian scholarly work in distance education and provide a…

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  • Cuecast.com – free online teleprompter

    Betsy Weber on the Techsmith Visual Lounge Blog posts about Cueprompter.com, a website that allows you to type or paste in a whack of text, and then scrolls it back at you just as a teleprompter would.  She suggests it would work well for screencasting, but I think that’s only true if you have a…

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