Weekly Tech Tips - Podcasting

Weekly Tech Tip:

Related Links:

• Tools shown in this video:

Vocaroo

Audiopal.com

Gabcast

Podbean.com/

• Original "Ask a Ninja" clips that were remixed in this tech tip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVSub...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khS4zl...

• Superhero clips created with: Xtranormal

• Other useful sites about podcasting:

Find more podcasting tools in the Digital Backpack

How I create and publish podcasts » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

AudioBoo - Create podcasts from your iPhone or iPod Touch

The Education Podcast Network | A Landmark Project

Teacher Magazine: Classroom Podcasting 101

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / podcasting

Link Stew:

• Fantastic talk by S. Craig Watkins on cellphones & social media and youth culture.
  

• Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 Introduction and Opening Keynote from UCHRI Video on Vimeo.

• Student Suing School Over Sexting Scandal- TYT
  

• Alan Levin - Tulane Tech Day 2009 Keynote: Being There in the Real Time Web
• Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers - The Onion
• LuminAR - I could see myself using one of these. When can I buy one?
  
• 3D Hologram Meetings? Unbelievable Real Telepresence - Simply Amazing! (I wonder how long before Dr. Marzano is hired to sell this technology to schools. Actually, on this one I can see Michael Horn and Clayton Christensen weighing in as a well.)
  
• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address - I realize this is five years old but given the time of year it is I thought it was fitting. I am fascinated by how he describes how taking a calligraphy course most likely is the reason we have so many font and typestyle options available on computers today.
  
• VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge
• Ignite | Ignite Show Video
• Tools and Tips for Creating Relevant, Authentic & Dynamic WebQuests
• Ex-teacher learns the hard way: Watch what you put online
• We Might All Be Watching Online Videos by 2015 [STATS]
• Web 2.0's Top 1,000 List! - not sure who made this list but there are plenty of tools in here I have never heard of and many I am surprised were not included.
• 70 Web 2.0 Tools in 70 Minutes
• Full 3rd Circuit Weighs Student Web Speech

Blog Carnival:

• Professional Development & Social Networking by Joe Bower on For the Love of Learning
• Death of an Awards Ceremony by Chris Wejr on The Wejr Board
• Do We See the Beauty in Every Student? by Shelly Terrell on Teacher Reboot Camp
• Question of the Day: Term Limits by Shelly Blake-Plock on TeachPaperless
• Higher Education's Big Lie by Anne Larson on Inside Higher Ed
• Embrace Standardized Testing by Paul Bogush on Blogush
• How COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth by danah boyd on DMLcentral
• Is the Higher Education Bubble Going to Burst? by Alison Leithner on Change.org
• Disintermediation: The disruption to come for Education 2.0 by gsiemens on elearnspace
• Reversing the Curriculum by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Why write when content is free? By Doug Johnson on The Blue Skunk
  

Weekly Tech Tip: Integrating Clustr Maps in the Classroom

This fall, Jodi Alper's 5th grade students worked on a "Fractured Fairy Tale" project. For the project they wrote their own versions of popular fairy tales. Then we took them to the lab where they recorded themselves reading the stories. The students edited their recordings using Audacity to modify their voices, add sound effects, and add music. The recordings were then uploaded to Podbean, a free podcasting service, where they were made available to anyone in the world who wanted to listen. Additionally, we placed a map on the site to track visitors. This week's tech tip explains how Mrs. Alpers uses this map to engage students in learning about world geography and I walk you through how to set one up for yourself.

Tech Tip:



Link Stew:

• Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps on TED Talks
• Lego Augmented Reality
• Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered, summary of a UofM research project from 2008 on Science Daily
• 100 Ways to Teach with Twitter
• The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard of: All about Twitter Fantastic presentation about Twitter by Dean Shareski
  
• After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds on The Chronicle of Higher Education
• FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools | SAP Web 2.0
• Symbaloo - start simple
• Send Large Files for FREE - Send unlimited files, up to 2GB each
• Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds - Kaiser Family Foundation
• Digitally Inclined: A Study done by PBS on Student Technology Use
• The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine on WIRED
• Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?: Scientific American
• Facebook profiles for places - Interesting Facebook visualization tool comparing how people are connected
• iTunes U - in your web browser

Blog Carnival:

• Other teachers grade that way, too? by Matt Townsley on MeTA musings
• Are Stereotypes Ruining Our Kids? By Julie LaChance on The eJulez Perspective
• Beliefs and Change By Pete Reilly on Ed Tech Journeys
• Faceless on Facebook By sjtaffee on Blogg-Ed Indetermination
• Words Matter | Unit By David Jakes on The Strength of Weak Ties
• Dear E.D. Hirsch By Barry Bachenheimer on A Plethora of Technology
• What is Technology? By Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
  

Goodhue 5th Graders Trying to Reach 6 Continents

Click here to listen: Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

Mrs. Alper's 5th grade class in Goodhue, MN recently finished a Fractured Fairy Tales project. For this project they wrote their own versions of popular fairy tales, then recorded themselves reading them, and added sound effects and background music in Audacity. They have published them in a podcast and are currently working on illustrating these stories and compiling e-books using issuu.

They also included a Clustermap on their site and hope to reach all 6 continents (except Antarctica though that would be cool). Please take a moment to check out what they have done and populate their Clustermap.

Click here to listen: Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

Clustermap for Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

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Ask a Ninja - What is Podcasting?

SEMTEC - Techspo - Podcasting Basics - Bryan Berg

Notes from Bryan Berg's Podcasting Basics Presentation

rSchool gives districts only 750mb of storage space - $10/mo for every extra gig. Gabcast gives you 200mb for free and 1gb for $12/mo.

http://learninginhand.com/

Audacity has a program you can download and install on mobile devices.

Acid Xpress - Like Garage Band but for PC

Podcast Feed Generator

This was a very basic how-to session good for those who have never recorded a podcast before. I was hoping to hear some pedagogical stuff. Application examples were minimal. I would have blogged more but found it unnecessary.

AP US History at Goodhue High School - Podcasting & Class Wiki

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I have been wanting to blog about this project for some time but thought it would be best to wait until there was substantial student work to publicize it. Josh Grant, our AP US History teacher, came to me at the beginning of the school year and asked me if there was a way we could use wikis or podcasting to encourage his students to do more review of their notes. We discussed the idea for a while and decided to start with the podcasting idea first.

Our first attempt was something of a failure. I created a one page instruction sheet that students could use that explained how to record their voice using Audacity and then how to login to our website and upload it. The instructional activity was each student would be assigned a chapter and would take turns recording their chapter summaries. To kick this off I visited his class and went through the procedure with his students. A couple weeks later Mr. Grant approached me with a problem. Evidently six steps was too much to remember for students who did not have to record their podcast until weeks later. About the same time he approached me with this problem I learned about Gabcast from reviewing podcast presentations from the K-12 Online Conference.

The next day we set up a Gabcast channel for his AP US History students and linked it to the school website along with instructions on how to record a podcast with Gabcast. If you are not familiar with Gabcast it is a free service that allows you to record podcasts over the telephone. Students call a toll-free phone number, enter a channel number and four digit password, then have up to an hour to record their podcast. We demonstrated this tool to his class and let them play around with it. Then the podcasts started coming in. This is a still a work in progress as Mr. Grant's students will be using this tool all year but if you want to listen to some of these podcasts (or use them to cram for the AP exam yourself) you can find them at: http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=14547. This tool does two things for Mr. Grant's students:

1. It forces them to review their notes for the chapters they are assigned.
   


2. Students can download these files to an iPod or MP3 player to help them prep for the AP exam in the spring.
   

Record by phone with Gabcast.com via kwout

Our second initiative was a master class notes wiki. For this assignment we set up a free wiki with PBWiki, set up blank pages for each chapter, then assigned students a chapter to record their notes. A second student was assigned the same chapter for revisions, a third student was assigned the chapter for inclusion of hyperlinks to related online content, and a fourth student was assigned the chapter for inclusion of related digital media (pictures, videos, etc.). Each student was assigned each task on at least two different chapters (different than the chapter they were assigned in the podcasting assignment). Students are then assessed on the number and quality of posts on the wiki. This assignment forces students to review their notes, addresses the needs of visual learners, provides a tool for students to use who have to miss a class, encourages them to consult other sources, and forces them again to review their notes, and review their notes, and review their notes. This too is still a work in progress. It can be viewed at: http://aphistorygoodhue.pbwiki.com/.

AP US History wiki via kwout

So, how does a teacher track all this online activity without going mad? We set up an RSS aggregator for Mr. Grant to use to keep track of all postings to both the Gabcast channel and the wiki. We used Bloglines since I had already begun a school wide initiative using this tool. With Bloglines Mr. Grant is immediately notified when a new post is published on either of these sites and can review it for appropriateness, quality, and to give credit to the student publishing the post. Hopefully all this pays off in the spring when these students take their exam.

Bloglines via kwout