[ED-TECH] Podcast interviews on education - www.pbs.org/merrow/podcast

Ed-tech list members,

I suppose everyone has heard of podcasting, but how many of us are using it? I listen to John Merrow's education related interview every week. John Merrow is a correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and he produced the documentary "Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk" (www.decliningbydegrees.org). Some of the podcasts deal with higher education, some with K-12 education. I find all of them stimulating.

The easiest way to listen to them is to go to his site (www.pbs.org/merrow/podcast) and click on a link to listen at your computer. I use the iTunes program to automatically download each week's interview to my iPod so I can listen while walking our dog, but that is a bit more complex, if you don't have iTunes installed. Contact me if you would like help with the iTunes process.

Note the "MORE PODCASTS" link at the bottom of the first page. It takes you to previous interviews including one with Lee Shulman on "College Teaching" and one with Tony Marx on "Liberal Education."

Bill Vilberg
305-284-3949 (work); 786-218-3052 (cell); 305-255-9138 (home)

-----Original Message-----
From: John Merrow [mailto:news@merrow.org]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:37 PM
To: Vilberg, William R.
Subject: Slipping Behind: This Week's Podcast

Friends,

This week's podcast is a conversation with Pat Callan, President of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. His research has angered many by suggesting that instead of better preparing unqualified students for college, much of higher education spends its time and money lusting after prestige. In our conversation, he discusses how this unbalanced system is hurting the country and its chances of staying competitive with the world.

I invite you to click the link below and listen at your convenience.

http://www.pbs.org/merrow/podcast/

Thanks,

John

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