Sounds of the Bazaar - February 2007

05-February-2007

A new edition of Sounds of the Bazaar - my regular, monthly podcast

Welcome to the first Sounds of the Bazaar in 2007. Sorry for the winter break - have been horribly busy. But we are back now - and I have had the very kind offer of technical assistance in producing the programme - so I am more confident of keeping up the monthly schedule. However hard I try to improve the workflow Sounds seems to take about five or six hours to produce and upload - and i guess there is no real way to educe that other than by more people working on it.

If anyone else would like to contribute to Sounds of the Bazaar just give me a shout.

Anyway, this issue focuses mainly on e-Portfolios.

First up is the by now traditional introduction from me.

Thsi is followed by a exploration of some of the issues involved in developing e-Portfolios - including the question of ownership, difficulties over assessment and the different media to be produced. The main focus of the broadcast is however, the different skills and knowledge needed top develop and maintain an e-Portfolio and how that might be attained.

The following short feature is about the new slang kids in the UK are using to describe older techies and not so techies.

Do you know what am 'i-screamer' is? Thanks to Jen Hughes who emailed this contribution and to Owen Grey who came clean with the jargon.

This months interview is with Peter Rees Jones form the UK. Peter works on various e-Portfolio development projects and is also leading the efforts by JISC to develop an e-Portfolio reference model.

Web site of the week features Helen Barrett who describes herself as the grandmother of e-Portfolios. Her web site is called Helen Barrett's electronic portfolios.

This weeks featured music is called Anna dub style remix and is by cdk.

The music is form a competition on the ccmixter web site. The site says:

"Creative Commons, Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to present the Vieux Farka Touré / "Ana" Remix Contest. Vieux Farka Touré — a highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Mali — is offering the audio source files from the song “Ana” online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, so that producers worldwide can use the sounds in remixes and new compositions." Who knows - I might have a go myself


Graham Attwell; 05-February-2007 20:22:42;