Digital Media

While reflecting on the class and all the technology we shared, and wondering how to take this information and all the rich opportunities it offers back to school, I found this clip on TeacherTube. I think it helps to answer the question, why blog…?
When I Grow Up…

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I subscribed to the podcast of This American Life. It is my first subscription to a podcast and I find it to be a dream come true. There were so many weekends when I was heard to utter, ” ugh, I missed it again!” and now I can listen when it works for me! If you haven’t [...]

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I selected iTunes software to download and try out. I was pleased at how really simple it was. With just a few clicks of the mouse it was loaded onto my computer and I was able to search the podcasts directory and select podcasts to subscribe to. 

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Here is my first solo attempt at a podcast using gcast.
Check it out at: gcast
Why use podcasts in education? Click and listen to what our study group had to say.

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JotSpot ( and Google)
Description of the site: Jotspot was founded in 2004 by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer the same people who founded Excite.com. It is a wiki company for wiki applications that enable anyone to create, publish, edit and share collaborative or personalized wiki applications. Google recently acquired JotSpot and as they [...]

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I just came across a job ad that requested a link to the applicant’s blog!
I think that makes it  critical that we address blogs and blogging in school.

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