Category: podcasting
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Feedvalidator
Feedvalidator (www.feedvalidator.org) is a useful, free tool for helping troubleshoot problems with a blog or podcast feed. Using this for my feedburner podcast subscription URL (http://feeds.feedburner.com/speedofcreativity/podcasts), I learned that it is not “best practice” / recommended to either: include HTML code in the subtitle include HTML code in the summary I am wondering how to…
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TiVo for Videoconferencing
My educational technology update presentation from this morning, “TiVo for Videoconferencing: Streaming video to the Desktop” is available as an online streamed video. Click on this link, and when prompted login with the username “guest” with no password. This is a 35 minute session. (Free QuickTime player or Real player software is required.) Referenced websites…
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Podcasting101 workshop video
My 1.5 hour workshop last Friday, “Podcasting101 for Educators,” is available online as an archived web video. (Login with the username “guest” and no password.) The workshop curriculum for this class is also available free from my Moodle website, and does NOT require an enrollment key to view/join. To view the streaming web video, you…
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Synaesthesia in podcasting
I have never heard of the term “audio synaesthesia” until reading this blog post by Jon Udell. Apparently it refers to a reaction where one type of sensory input triggers another reaction. This happens frequently to me when I hear an old song, and I can remember a place and time from my youth (oh…
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RSS-Mix
The concept of RSS feeds is an essential topic for every educator. Will Richardson has a great 11 page “RSS QuickStart for Educators” (downloadable PDF) that can be used as a workshop resource, along with a great list of helpful RSS links: www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_links The RSS Mix website (www.rssmix.com) looks like a super resource for combining…
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Podcasting 101
I have created an online curriculum entitled “Podcasting 101,” open to anyone and everyone to access and use. In the philosophy section at the top I discuss what I am hoping– to collaborate with at least a few other educators on the creation and refinement of this curriculum, and then use it for workshops I…
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Notes on Angus King’s remarks
Tonight in the Microcomputer Applications course I am teaching, we listened to Bob Sprankle’s podcast from July 13th, 2005, which features a speech made by former Maine Governor Angus King. We googled for a photo of Angus King and had that onscreen during the podcast– it was like he was a guest speaker in our…
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Blogsieve: Creating a feed river
I have been thinking about wanting/needing this tool for several months, and apparently an innovative team of programmers have now created it: Blogsieve (www.blogsieve.com). The concept is simple: you have multiple RSS feed sources that you want to monitor, but you want to receive / read / download them as a single stream. This could…
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Great links from a podcast listener
Alan November encourages teachers to use technology to “infomate” learning activities in their classrooms (do things impossible without technology), rather than merely “automate” activities” (doing things they have already been doing, but just use technology to accomplish the same tasks.) I received feedback via email today from my last podcast, from Eric Langhorst, an 8th…
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5 conversations about podcasting
I am amazed I had 5 conversations today about podcasting, the first three initiated by other people. This morning I met with Vicki Allen, who works for Southwestern Bell here in Texas and helps K-12 as well as university folks with technology integration– especially classroom videoconferencing. She had been in Amarillo yesterday at the ESC16…