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I had the opportunity this week to speak with Dr. Rita Girondi, the owner of Training Masters, Inc. Her company produces the Klickers system demonstrated in the video above. When I was in school (too many years ago), multimedia meant cheesy filmstrips narrated with cassette tapes. Now, it's PowerPoint slides with remotes where students can vote on the correct answer to questions. 

We had a great discussion and we touched on the fact that it's…

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For quite some time, I've hand a keen interest in the educational potential of podcasting. I've listened several podcasts and vodcasts, mainly through iTunes U, for my own personal enrichment and I've considered using them in some of the classes I teach.



To give a little background about myself: I teach science at a community college in Pennsylvania. Teaching at a community college is different than teaching at an elementary or secondary school or even at any other college. Most of… Continue