Category Archives: umwnewmedia

A Real Podcatcher for the iPhone

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Andy Rush

Sometimes Apple leaves features out of products for inexplicable reasons . We’re on version 3.0 of the iPhone software and their iTunes application does not allow you to subscribe to a podcast using the standard itpc:// protocol, nor can you … Continue reading →

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All sun and no clouds makes for six more weeks of winter

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Andy Rush

I was getting nostalgic about my blogs (as nostalgic as I can get with something that started in 2004). I wondered how I could get an easy view of my blog posts, and review where I had gone over the … Continue reading →

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Boo Ya Later

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Andy Rush

I’m still not sure about this Internet time thing, but I think it was yesterday morning that Patrick asked me if I saw Cole’s post about mobile podcasting in regards to Penn State’s iTunesU setup. Since then I’ve gone from … Continue reading →

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New Media Faculty Academy

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Andy Rush

This is just a quick post that will be used as an introduction to my New Media Buffet presentation. Actually this is old, new media, but the Video Toaster/Webcam Max/Ustream.tv was put into service once again this year to stream … Continue reading →

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Re-thinking YouTube Downloads

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Andy Rush

Do a search for “download youtube videos” and the results you get will offer up countless websites with instructions, services, tools, and videos dedicated to the subject. You would think that it was popular to download videos from the YouTube … Continue reading →

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Small Pieces Constantly Changing

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Andy Rush

An interesting thing happened on the way to, and from, our presentation on “Small Pieces To-Go” at the ACCS 2009 conference. Change. Alright, change isn’t a big deal in our world, but it’s one that I found very exciting and … Continue reading →

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Making YouTube More Cinematic

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Andy Rush

Here’s a neat trick to use next time you want to show a YouTube video in class, or in your home theater (h/t to WebWare). You need to have the Firefox web browser and an add-on/plugin called YouTube Cinema. So … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous YouTube

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Andy Rush

Sarcasm notwithstanding, the sentiment in the above video is held by many people – “YouTube is a site of millions of sucky videos.” I have, in the past, argued against that statement here, here, here, and here. Until recently, a … Continue reading →

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Stick THAT in your Google . . .

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Andy Rush

Just a quick post to tell folks about two nifty plugins (add-ons) for Firefox that make Google searches more . . . well . . . interesting (especially when you search for Edupunk). The first is Search Cloudlet which will … Continue reading →

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Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline – v2.0

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Andy Rush

A little over a year ago I posted Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline using various tools to allow the embedding of YouTube videos in PowerPoint presentations. In the mean time, YouTube has added a bazillion more videos, and some … Continue reading →

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