How to explain RSS the Oprah way

I found this today ... click on the link in the title or go to the blog

The articles starts ... "Now to explain RSS the Oprah way
Today, I’m going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online.

We all have busy lives with very little time. Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if you could just get all the headlines of the most current stories from all your favorite websites and blogs in one place?

Well now you can, and it is called RSS feed.

The Oprah definition
The technical acronym for RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”, an XML format that was created to syndicate news, and be a means to share content on the web. Now, to geeks and techies that means something special, but to everyday folks like you and me, what comes to mind is, “Uh, I don’t get it?”

So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place."

How cool is that? ---- check out the image on the site!

Final Reflections

Please send me your final reflection by Wednesday.

Podbean

Another option to create a blog and upload audio and video is podbean.com

here is a link to a Nasbhoa podbean site

Audio Recording with Kerry (and listen in iTunes)

Here is my audio with Kerry using Skype and Audacity. I then uploaded to Ourmedia.org to be stored on the Internet. Here is the link

or go to this site http://www.ourmedia.org/node/313415
here is the direct link to the mp3 http://www.archive.org/download/Marottakerryinterview/podcastevalwithKB.mp3

Note: There are a few mp3 files in this blog. When you subscribe in itunes you will be able to listen to the recordings. In iTunes go to the Advanced Menu adn subscribe to podcast and paste this url in http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/hTZR. It will then bring only the audio files from the blog into iTunes.

Customize Google, add parts and Google Reader

Lab Time to practice using google and brng is a feed from the class
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/hTZR

or go to

Mac Users go to my ilifeintheclassroom blog http://ilifeintheclassroom.blogspot.com/

Here is a link for Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Sample of local Blogs and Podcasts

Class Discussion and your links
Use this post for comments, discussions and to post links and ideas that you want to share!
I attended Christa McAuliffe Conference last fall and a session by Ann Diott - adlott@hopkinton.k12.ma.us from Hopkington and a group of Shrewbury teachers on iLife and Podcasting that did with Elementary Students. I was very inspired.

Here are some of the links-
- http://spsmidweststates.blogspot.com/ Midwest states project
- http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/spring/ShrewsburyHistory/HistoryofShrewsbury.html
- http://hpsmathmatters.blogspot.com/ and http://hpsreadingcorner.blogspot.com/
- http://spsaudiotours.blogspot.com/- http://spspoetryproject.blogspot.com/

Other links covered in the session
- http://spsreadingstrategies.blogspot.com/ - Reading Strategies,Tips to become a better reader
- http://lewisandclarktrail.com/elearning.htm podcasts to download
- http://spsliteraturecircle.blogspot.com/ Literature Circle
- http://hpsthegrandescape.blogspot.com/ Virtual Book group

Part II of the class

Hope everyone is ready for class tomorrow -

What do you want to learn?

Link to your class blog - please post

How are your class blogs coming?

Post a link to your blog and comment on your classmates blog.

New Magazine on Blogger & Podcaster Magazine

Check out Will Richardson's blog this week
and the new Blogger & Podcaster Magazine

Technology & Learning Magazine - April 2007

Blogs Are Not the Enemy by Jeff Utecht
Why teachers need to reconsider their attitudes toward blogging and how blogs can help students learn to express themselves. Plus: Vicki Davis shows us how to blog like a king or queen. Article

From this month's
Technology and Learning Magazine http://www.techlearning.com/content/about/tl_current.php
Note: the author is responding in the blog!

Digital Students @ Analog Schools

Here is a video from Marco Torres a keynote from Alan November's conference and teacher from Fernando Valley High School in LA
link

The students who made this movie did this on their own after graduating from San . They moved onto higher and and enrolled in several prestigious colleges. The students did all the work on the movie while attending college and working collaboratively and online. How impressive is that!

Assignment - Signup for edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/ and review this artilve on Marco Magazine and review website. More on Marco, sweatshops

Uploading files to the web (blog or podcast)

To upload file to the web -

Options
1. School folder on the web
2. ISP account, comcast, verizon, etc
3. Create Accounts on ourmedia http://www.ourmedia.org/ and http://www.archive.org
4. See handout for other suggestions (.mac account, etc)

One file file is uploaded copy the hyperlink to your blog and thei file will open
Here is a word document in Ourmedia (links to location http://www.archive.org/download/marottatesttestsounddoc/testsound.doc)

Note: You can also use other integrated tools that allow you to upload a file directly into a blog, example podbean.

Welcome to Class

Welcome to Podcasting in the Classroom.

Please post a comment and introduce yourself to your classmates.

If you would like the post to have your name, you must create a blogger account first.
Go to http://www.blogger.com/start

If you have created a blog post a comment.

Rubric for creating a blog http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalblog.html

Did you know?

Did you know?

Paying Attention

Are you paying attention to how your students learn?

Blogger and Podbean

We will review a few options to connect podcasting to a blog during this class.

Blogger (by Google) along with places to store your audio files and
Podbean

You can import blogger into podbean http://mmarotta.podbean.com/

Please create an account http://www.podbean.com/ and an email will be sent to your account. You may use this in your next class.

Accounts

Part I - Internet accounts on:
1. Blogger create account and blog http://www.blogger.com/
2. Bloglines http://bloglines.com/ to collect and read blogs
3. Skype - http://skype.com/ to chat and record audio for fun and podcasting
4. Download itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/
5. Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and (lame for mp3 files)
6. How to podcast tutorial on audacity - http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm click on the recording video and watch!Note:
Need ideas
The teacher records a lesson onto an iPod using a voice recorder. Students follow the lesson
http://www.apple.com/au/education/ipod/lessons/

Part II
6. ourmedia http://www.ourmedia.org/ and http://www.archive.org
or other web hosting service *problems this week
7. feedburner http://www.feedburner.com/
8. Link to your feeder to your blog

Link: http://ourmedia.org/ia/details/marymarottamarytest