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GA Politics Podcast

GA Politics Podcast

A panel discussion about politics in Georgia.
Hosts: Joseph G

Blue laws, healthcare, education, and Sonny for VP (Episode 10, February 11, 2007)

Posted February 16, 2007 - 8:33am by Joseph G

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Panel:

Topics:

  • Sunday Alcohol Sales
  • Sonny for VP?
  • PeachCare and education in the legislature
  • Georgia says "no" to National ID
  • Speeders pay for GA trauma care

Length: 24:47 minutes
File size: 17 MB

Fort Gordon purchases iPods for foreign language training

Posted September 10, 2006 - 4:52pm by Amber Rhea

Last week, Augusta's Metro Spirit reported that the Navy contingent at Fort Gordon has purchased at least 700 iPods this year. After apparently being given the standard military run-around, reporter Corey Pein spoke with a public affairs officer who informed him that the iPods were purchased for foreign language training. One iPod - this is the 30GB model we're talking about - can hold "an entire study course of Arabic, Farsi or Mandarin" (or, one imagines, basically any other language). Oh, and they're video iPods... so porn, too.

About this podcast:

GA Politics Podcast

GA Politics Podcast

A panel discussion about politics in Georgia.
Hosts: Joseph G

Interview - GA House Candidate Melanie Eyre

Posted June 5, 2006 - 7:03am by Joseph G

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This show was a special interview edition of the Georgia Politics Podcast, recorded June 3, 2006. Rather than have a panel discussion, we interviewed Melanie Eyre, who is running as a Democrat in the 46th Georgia House District.

Interviewers:

Discussion topics:

  • Education — School vouchers, student testing, and improving quality in Georgia schools
  • Return of the Gay Marriage Amendment — Constitutionality of the original amendment, the amendment's affects on gay families
  • Running as a Democrat in North Fulton — Support from the state party, North Fulton Democrats

Length: 30:12 minutes
File size: 34.58 MB

Georgia College & State University uses iPods in curriculum

Posted March 12, 2006 - 7:20pm by Rusty Tanton

Georgia College & State University might be the most Podcast-friendly university in the country, judging by the percentage of the faculty that puts out podcasts. From the Macon Telegraph:

At least 100 of the rural Georgia school's employees use the digital music and video players as an education or research tool - impressive for a college with only about 300 faculty. Rather than simply making class lectures available for download to iPods - a practice now routine at many colleges and even a few high schools - the school's educators are pushing to find more strategic uses of the device.

History professor Deborah Vess asks students to download 39 films to their devices so she doesn't have to spend class time screening the movies. Psychology professor Noland White has found a new-age answer to office hours: a podcast of the week's most asked questions.