Category Archives: podcasts

For One Week Only: King James Bible

Posted on January 11, 2011 by cpjobling

2011 apparently marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. To mark the occasion, the BBC made a bit of a splash last week with a sequence of three forty-five minute documentaries fronted by James Naughtie … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #7: Pythagoras’ Trousers

Posted on October 14, 2010 by cpjobling

The title of this occasional series is a bit of a joke as it’s been several weeks since my last Podcast of the Week post. Nonetheless, it’s worth breaking my silence this week because this month‘s podcast of the week … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #6: Digital Planet

Posted on September 6, 2010 by cpjobling

Digital Planet from the BBC World Service was one of the earliest podcasts that I picked up when I got my first MP3 player — which wasn’t an iPod! I’ve been listening to it every week for several years and … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #5: The Changelog

Posted on August 25, 2010 by cpjobling

Git sounds like an insult, but it’s actually a distributed version control system which was originally invented by Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel. GitHub is a phenomenally successful open-source code hosting site build around Git. GitHub is … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the week: #4 Sprachbar

Posted on August 18, 2010 by cpjobling

An odd one this … but bear with me.Sprachbar is part of the Deutsch for Ausländer (German for foreigners) programming of Deutsche Welle, the German equivalent to the BBC World Service.To quote from the website Sprachbar is an offering that … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the week: #3 Thinking Aloud

Posted on August 11, 2010 by cpjobling

Thinking Aloud, a long running BBC Radio 4 show, is a weekly discussion of the latest research in social science. It might seem an odd choice for a lecturer in engineering. But since it’s been a Podcast, I’ve been hooked! … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #2: Tech Weekly

Posted on August 4, 2010 by cpjobling

It’s actually a fortnight since the last one but … this week’s Podcast of the Week is The Guardian’s excellent Tech Weekly podcast. Every Wednesday, regular host Aleks Krotoski along with regular contributors Guardian Technology Editor Charles Arthur and Digital … Continue reading →

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Blackboard 9.1 Tips – #1 Campus Pack

Posted on July 30, 2010 by cpjobling

Learning Objects Campus Pack, used to provide for blogs, wikis and podcasts in Swansea University’s VLE, was updated at the same time as Blackboard. If you have one or more Learning Objects blog(s), wiki(s) or podcast(s) in your Blackboard (learning … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #1: E-Learning Stuff

Posted on July 21, 2010 by cpjobling

I read a lot of blogs and I listen to a lot of podcasts, so I thought I’d use this blog to tell you about some of my favourites. Here’s the first of an occasional series of recommendations: It’s e-Learning … Continue reading →

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