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