John Merrow on College Athletics

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a podcast from John Merrow, in which he spoke with Harry Edwards on the business of college athlethics. The original podcast was published on 23 March 2006 at:

http://johnmerrow.blogspot.com/2006/03/college-sports-john-merrow-podcast-25.html

Dr. Harry Edwards is a professor emeritus at the Univesity of California at Berkeley, and he serves as a consultant to Major League Baseball, the Golden State Warriors and the San Francisco 49ers on issues of racial diversity within professional sports.

The show notes included:

"A March madness special. Sociologist Harry Edwards on the business of college athletics."

John Merrow has been an education reporter for over 30 years and correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He profiles significant issues in k-12 and higher education. His biosketch is at:

http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/young_scientists/YSJM_merrow_bio.pdf

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: John Merrow, Harry Edwards, podcast, college athletics

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John Merrow Bio

John Merrow began his career as an education reporter with National Public Radio in 1974, when he created "Options in Education." That series earned more than two dozen broadcasting awards, including the George Polk Award in 1982. From 1985 to 1990 he was education correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and in 1993 he created The Merrow Report for PBS, followed by the NPR series of the same name in 1997. In 2000 he returned to The NewsHour to provide occasional reports on education. Learning Matters, Inc., Merrow's production company, has been co-producing documentaries with the PBS series FRONTLINE since 2001. Merrow won a Peabody Award in 2001 for "School Sleuth: The Case of the Excellent School," which aired on PBS. Merrow earned a Bachelors Degree from Dartmouth College in 1964, a Masters Degree in American Studies from Indiana University in 1968, and a doctorate in Education and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1973.

An Interview With Dr. Patricia Busk

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a podcast from Dr. Margaret Maag, of the University of San Francisco School of Nursing. The podcast is an interview with Prof. Patricia Busk, of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. It was originally published to the web on 9 March 2006 at:

http://margaretspod.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-dr-patricia-busk.html

The show notes included:

"This morning I had the opportunity to go back to the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and meet with my former professor, Dr. Patricia Busk. As a graduate student I had the good fortune to take many courses with Dr. Busk, and it is an honor to interview her today. Listen to Dr. Busk share her views of the challenges facing higher education in the United States and what some of the solutions to the challenges might be during this century."

More about Dr. Maag at:

http://www.maagnursing.com/bio.php

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: podcast, Margaret Maag, USF, higher education, Patricia Busk

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Gardner Campbell on the Growth of Mobility

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a podcast from Jarret Cummings, of EDUCAUSE and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). In this podcast, he speaks with Prof. Gardner Campbell about mobile learning. Prof. Campbell teaches literature and film at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, where he's also Assistant VP for Teaching and Learning Technologies. He also is a prolific blogger - see:

http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/

This podcast was posted to the web on 21 March 2006 at:

http://connect.educause.edu/blog/jcummings/gardner_campbell_on_the_growth_of_mobility/2170

In the shownotes, Mr. Cummings wrote:

"On March 29-30, ELI will host its 2006 Spring Focus Session, Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning, at the Inn and Conference Center - University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, MD (adjacent to College Park). In conjunction with the event, we are conducting a series of podcast interviews to get a better understanding of mobility and mobile learning issues. In this interview, Gardner Campbell joins me to discuss the rapid growth of mobility in American society and the related expansion in higher education's interest in mobile learning. "

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: podcast, Gardner Campbell, mobile learning, Jarret Cummings, EDUCAUSE

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The Wisdom of Crowds

Hi everyone! Today's selection is (indirectly) from Laura Blankenship, who works at the Educational Technology Center at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia). Bryn Mawr College is a private college for women. She included a link to this podcast in her blog on 15 March 2006 at:

http://www.brynmawr.edu/etc/etcblog/2006/03/wisdom-of-crowds.html

This podcast features James Surowiecki's talk, "The Wisdom of Crowds", which was recorded at the recent SxSW 2006 conference.

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Potpourri from NY Times Science Times

Hi everyone! Today's selection is something a little different - the weekly

science podcast from the NY Times. This podcast was posted to the web on 21 March

2006 at:

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/scienceupdate.xml



The show notes state:

"David Corcoran, a science editor, explores the topics addressed in this week's

Science Times. This week: Genetic diseases in the Middle East, schizophrenia and

barn swallows."

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: podcast, NY Times, science, David Corcoran, genetic diseases

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Leadership Development: The Future

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a recent podcast from Elliott Masie, of the Masie Center (http://www.masie.com/). Elliott is the organizer of the Learning 2006 conference, which will be held in Orlando on 5-8 November 2006. This podcast was posted to the web at:

http://www.learning2006.com/university

The show notes state:

"This is an 11 minute Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript of an interview with John Alexender, the president of the Center for Creative Leadership. John addresses changes in the how leaders are being developed in organizations."

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John Alexander

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.masie.com/l6/podcasts/l6_u_podcast-01.pdf

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: podcast, Elliott Masie, John Alexander, leadership

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About Elliott Masie:

http://www.learning2006.com/who-is-elliott-masie/

Potpourri from Go Digital

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a recent podcast from the "Go Digital" show on the BBC. Host Gareth Mitchell presents a real potpourri of topics. This podcast was posted to the web on 14 March 2006 at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm

The show notes state:

"The new ideas and gadgets from the Cebit technology fair and how Jamaica is updating TV education with mobile phones. And why Go Digital is to be renamed Digital Planet."

"Welcome to Go Digital, the weekly BBC World Service programme that looks at how technology is changing our lives. Each week we explore the world of digital technology in all its forms. Almost every country on the planet has the internet and the mobile phone. The world is truly switched on to the digital age. But what does it all mean, what benefits can such technology provide, and who's in control? Tune in to Go Digital to hear the answers. Each week we will be speaking to leading figures in the computer industry. We tap into the BBC's network of reporters around the world to bring us the technology stories making the news where you are, changing the world around you."

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: podcast, BBC, Go Digital, Gareth Mitchell, Cebit, mobile technology

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About Gareth Mitchell:

"Gareth Mitchell is the never-ageing face of Go Digital. Starting out as a broadcast engineer, he traded climbing TV transmitter masts for science and technology journalism about 10 years ago. His favourite gadgets include his digital radio, digital camera and ancient Psion personal organiser."