Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers

• Author(s): Ann Bell,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Pages: 134
• ISBN_10: 1586832123
  ISBN_13: 9781586832124
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Educational Software , Education / Computers & Technology , Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / School Media , Technology & Engineering / Mobile & Wireless Communications ,

Description:... And challenge -- Utilizing and preparing eaudio -- Educational value of audiobooks -- Selecting audiobooks -- Audiobook industry -- Sources of audiobooks -- Ripping audiobooks -- Direct audio on a handheld device -- Converting text to audiobooks -- Learning foreign languages -- For the disabled -- Online radio -- Summary and challenge -- Utilizing and preparing podcasts -- What is podcasting? -- History of podcasting -- Educational uses of podcasts -- Legal and copyright issues in podcasting -- Hardware needed to listen and produce a podcast -- Software needed to listen and produce a podcast -- Locating and listening to podcasts -- Recording a podcast -- Hosting and publishing a podcast -- Summary and challenge -- Locating and downloading evideos and vodcasts -- History of vodcasts -- Sources for educational evideos and vodcasts -- Selecting software and media players for video playback -- Converting video formats to play on a handheld device.