Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged iTunes
Shifting Our Schools Podcast Season 3
Nov 23rd
Last week David Carpenter and I kicked off season 3 of the Shifting Our Schools podcast. It’s taken us a while to get this season going and I’m not short on the excuses why, so I won’t even bother getting started. Needless to say we are started and we’re excited to be back for a third season.
As usual I can’t keep well enough alone and decided to push the podcast just one step further this year. So now not only can you listen to use live and chat on the website, or download the podcast later via iTunes. This year we’re More >
Sharing Podcasts across your Network
Apr 9th
I had an idea the other day (don’t laugh…I do get them once in awhile!) that seems to be paying off.
We have these nice older iMacs sitting in our ES HUB (a.k.a. Library). We use one to sync our 10 iPods that the PTA bought for us last year and….well….that’s it. It’s sitting there with a 150GB hard drive and all that’s on it are audiobook files.
So I had and idea while running the other day that I could download podcasts to that machine and then share the library over the internal network so that any teacher or student could More >
My Podcast Set-up
Dec 8th
I like it when other podcasters share their set up. A thanks to Leo Leporte, one of my favorite tech podcasters….or is that netcaster. I’ve learned a lot about podcasting just listening to the different shows he produces.
I wrote this page for the Shifting Our Schools site to share with others the set up I use to stream, record, and converse all at the same time. I thought I’d share it here as well. You can find links to the different equipment I use at my Amazon Store as well.
Google Earth and Audio Books
Dec 4th
Two recent lessons I have been involved in are using Google Earth with 2nd Graders and having 5th graders create audio books for Pre-K students.
Google Earth Lesson (2nd Grade):
Have students pair up. (I always have kids number 1 and 2, it makes it easy to say “OK, #1 your turn to ……)
Students start Google Earth and each person is allowed 5 minutes to explore the program. Click here, click there, spin the Earth this way and that. I find I have way less interruptions if you just give kids time to explore the program “their way”. Giving just 5 minutes gets More >
Adding Album Art to a podcast
May 14th
I’m writing this to share with others as it took me way to long to find the answer on how to do this.
I’ve got two podcasts; On Deck and Gourmet Geeks that are syndicated via iTunes (here and here). I noticed that when you download them to your iPod that the Album Art wasn’t coming through so I did a little research.
I use PodPress on a WordPress install and thought (wrongly) that the Album Art for podcasts was picked up via the RSS feed like everything else in iTunes. But the Album Art actually comes from the ID3 tag on an mp3 file.
Confused? Yeah More >
Back from Digital Darkness 2008
Apr 28th
I’m just getting back to things this morning after taking me week of Screen Free Time off. The first thing I did this morning was turn on my computer and start iTunes to download all the podcasts I missed last week. Interesting, I didn’t realize that was the first thing I would do until I did it. What does that say about communication and learning for me (I’m an auditory learner, BTW)? My hour bus ride is my podcast time and I missed it last week but did accomplish other tasks.
When I got to school I looked up last years post More >
