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5th April 2006

Informational Text and Literacy

posted in disruptive-technology, literacy, podcasting, web 2.0 |

Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast from March 25th titled “Informational Text and Literacy” is outstanding and well-worth listening to. The show is a rebroadcast of a staff development workshop in Wells, Maine, by Kevin Perks about the need to focus more on informational text (rather than just fiction) in our classrooms as we prepare students to be literate netizens of the 21st century.

Many thanks to Bob for podcasting this, and Kevin for giving permission. This is level 2 technology use / infomation in the parlance of Alan November for sure. There is no way, without Bob’s podcast, that I would have listened to Kevin’s ideas last week driving in my car to and from work.

Podcasting can enable the conversation in the blogosphere to extend far beyond the computer screen. That is why podcasting as well as blogging are examples of disruptive technologies. I love being able to have a professional development lesson at virtually any time of the day, just by turning on my iPod.

I have been using Podnova now for several weeks to subscribe to podcasts and add/delete shows from my iPod. I now have more podcasts downloaded into iTunes than will fit on my 2 GB Nano, so it is important to be able to manage the podcasts that are actually copied over to the iPod. I do this both by using the “cleanup” menu item in Podnova, and selecting the Podnova-generated iTunes playlists for different podcasts that are synced to my iPod.

Podnova is free, cross-platform, works great with iTunes, and I highly recommend it. If you are already subscribed to podcasts directly in iTunes, you will have to resubscribe with Podnova (either using the website interface or the downloadable client-side application,) but once you have your feeds stored with podnova you can share them as OPML files (here’s mine) that others can import into OMPL compliant aggregators/podcast catchers, as well as share an RSS feed of the latest episodes of the podcasts you’ve subscribed to.

Another example of web 2.0 content sharing. The conversation goes on! :-)

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