He should win a Tony award ...

Ahhh .. it's definitely time for school to start. Know how we know? Because we have a brand new Learning Tech podcast to share! This week we feature some song and dance (well, song anyway) worthy of a Tony (well, worthy of our special guest, Tony Gaddy). Sit back, relax and watch our offering that has the new web site as its focus.

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Show notes:

Jana's tip this week is the indispensable and ever growing LibriVox from Internet Archives. [Link] This is a library of audio books, all in the public domain. Instructors can use snippets of the audio to make a point, students can use sections for presentations. Besides it's just plain fun!




Joe's tip of the week centered around the idea of using available online lectures as well as creating recorded lectures of your own to upload and provide to your students to view in your classes. Bill Gates has provided a classic lecture series on physics delivered by Dr. Richard Feynman (pictured on left) given in 1964 at Cornell. In addition to the lecture, Project Tuva (Microsoft's research/education venture) also provides annotations and transcripts for the series.

In addition to this site are other sites like Academic Earth delivering lectures from Scholars and professors from top U.S. universities sch as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale on a wide assortment of curriculum areas and topics. Finally, I want to make an appeal to any instructors who are interested in capturing what you are doing in class, or any material you want viewed/listened to before class to contact us in Learning Technology. We have a wide assortment of tools and media to capture and deliver many different types of academic content.

Emily's tip of the week is a website called Print What You Like. How many times have you printed a web page only to find it full of ads, empty space and other things you didn't want. PWYL is a free online editor that lets you print only what you want. No more pasting into Word! There's no downloading. Just type or copy/paste the URL into the box provided and click the start button. Then you can remove unwanted material, change the font size and even remove the background. You can save snippets of pages, put them together and create one document for printing. PWYL documents can also be saved as a PDF or HTML. Remove the junk you don't want, save money and the environment by reducing paper and ink usage. Go to PWYL and see how it works for you. Print What You Like