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MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Podcasting for educators – Everybody is looking for grant money to do this, but come on, it ain’t that expensive. Classcaster is open source, and we recommend a sub $100 digital recorder that works just fine. Quality is good enough and it is easy for teachers to use and students to listen to.
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To ‘cast or not to ‘cast. It seems to be a much hotter topic than it deserves to be these days. Here’s how it boils down. Are you producing media for the web: Yes/No. If you check the Yes box, why not create an RSS feed for it? If you check the No box, why aren’t you?
Peterson’s – a Nelnet Company–Syndication for Higher Ed » Podcasts Passe – Or were they ever “In”?
As usual, Dan asks a good question. I left him this comment:
One year ago we launched a simple service for law school faculty to create podcasts of lectures and course summaries at www.classcaster.org. Now we have over 60 active bloggers and podcasters, more than 2500 hours of audio material, a lot of satisfied students. I think you need to look past the hype about podcasting and ask a basic question: is there value for the student in having this supplemental material? If the answer is yes, you can create an effective infrastructure for recording classes and summaries with less than $100 digital recorders and open source software. All the information on how we built Classcaster, including the software we used, is at http://www.classcaster.net/.
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The Chroncile of Higher Education is reporting that the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will be recognized as the sole accreditor of American law schools for the next 18 months, rather than for five years, the standard usually agreed to by the department’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. Staff members of the advisory committee cited concerns that the bar association’s accrediting council has no controls or rules in place to ensure the consistent application of its diversity standards.
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The American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has voted to grant provisional accreditation to the Charleston School of Law, Dean Richard Gershon announced today. Provisional accreditation is the highest form of accreditation that can be granted any school at this stage. The vote means the first class of students who graduate from the new school next May will be able to take the South Carolina Bar Examination.
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