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  • Compressing Audio Lecturecasts for Publishing with Switch Software

    Switch is a free software program for Windows and Macintosh computers which lets users (among other things) compress audio files so they can be transferred faster over the Internet. If you publish podcasts, and specifically audio lecturecasts, Switch is a great program to have and use. It’s one of the optional software programs we recommend…

  • Be sure comment moderation is turned ON for your school website

    It’s 2010, and all of our K-12 schools should have dynamic, interactive websites. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, that is not the case today in many schools. I’m contacting different school leaders and educators in advance of my December 14th and 15th workshop series on Google Tools in Oklahoma City, and ran across the…

  • A sad (but true) video commentary on higher education publishing

    I’ve spent almost the entire day writing on my dissertation. Although the final results of this labor are months away from completion, my Friendfeed channel reveals many digital breadcrumbs from my research today. To take a short break this evening, I watched the 4.5 minute video Valerie Strauss shared in her Washington Post “Answer Sheet”…

  • Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work

    This is a short article I wrote for the November Educational Technology Newsletter of Gadsten City Schools in Alabama. Feel free to republish this with attribution. Personal computers have been with us for over thirty years.1 In the last five years, mobile devices like smartphones and mp3 players have become much more common in our…

  • Welcome to the golden age of writing and publishing

    Maybe I’ll become an analog/atomic/paper-based published author sooner than I thought, and maybe you will too. Borders has partnered with Bookbrewer, which lets bloggers turn RSS feeds into ebooks and now printed books with relative ease… and relatively little up front cash: Less than $100 if you don’t want to own your ISBN, and $200…

  • Platform agnostic developers will help redefine print and literacy

    Great quotation from yesterday’s Mashable article, “The Reinvention of Print, One App at a Time.” The final advantage is that because the app is built on an HTML5 base, the process of taking the app from the iPad to another platform is going to be less complicated. Portability and platform agnosticism is going to become…

  • If you take more Accelerated Reader Tests, I’ll give you more cell phone minutes

    In 1996 at Wheelock Elementary School in Lubbock, Texas, were I started my teaching career, K-6 teachers had recently received their first classroom computers. They were Macintosh LC 575s, without CD-ROM drives. They had 5 MB of RAM, they could be upgraded to Mac OS 7.5.3 which supported DHCP (woo hoo)… and they were wonderful.…

  • Publish student stories online with artwork, text and audio narration with StoryKit (free)

    StoryKit is a wonderful, free application for iOS devices published by the International Children’s Digital Library. I learned about the application and installed it on my iPhone several months ago, but until this month didn’t take time to actually use it. I’m delighted at how easy it is to use and publish student work. This…

  • News Literacy and the Basics of Journalism: Be Fair, Accurate and Clear

    This summer for the second time, I had an opportunity to present and learn with other educators gathered for the week long “Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers” workshop at the Gaylord School of Journalism on the campus of OU in Norman. Tammy Parks, a broadcast journalism teacher in Howe, Oklahoma, has got me involved in this project.…

  • Creating a course audio lecturecast (podcast) with Podcast Generator

    Podcast Generator is an open source content management solution specifically customized for podcasting.* Since it’s open source, it’s free but you need to have access to a webserver supporting PHP scripts to use it. It permits users to upload audio files directly using a web browser, and share them as podcasts within a created RSS…