Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Podcasts

September 12, 2006
Sue Gallaway

Powerpoint Presentation

Resources

Shortcuts:

• Podcasting
• Wikis, Blogs, RSS - Resource links
• Creating Wikis
• Creating and Exploring Blogs
• Web 2.0 sampler

Podcasting

• Finding podcasts
  • http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ - allows you to find and subscribe to podcasts
    
  • http://www.podcast.net/
  • http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
  • http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/
• Podcast aggregator application: Juice
• \Podcasting Session from the 2006 Teaching & Learning Conference
• Sample Educational Use of Podcasts
  • Speaking of History ...
    By Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade history teacher & graduate education instructor at Park University
  • Education Podcast Network
    Brings together "the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."
    • Dan's Math Cast
    • Drexel eLearning Podcasts
      Short podcasts introducing students to online learning
    • Podcast for Professors at Fordham University
    • iTunes U at UC Berkeley
• Sources of Royalty-Free Music for Podcasts
  • Creative Commons
  • Royalty Free Music
• Software for Recording Podcasts
  • Audacity (sound editor)
    • Manual and Tutorials
• Podcasting Legal Guide

Wiki, Blogs, RSS

• Further reading:

• Richardson, W. (2005, May). The ABCs of RSS. Technology & learning, 25(10), 20+. Retrieved June 1, 2006, from ProQuest.

  This article provides a great overview of what RSS is and offers details on how to use an RSS aggregator, specifically Bloglines. Ideas for use of RSS in the classoom.

• Richardson, W. (2005, November/December). What's a wiki? A powerful collaborative tool for teaching and learning. That's what!. MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, 12(6), 17-20. Retrieved June 1, 2006, from ProQuest.

  This article discusses Wikipedia. The author also explains wiki technology and offers some ideas for how this collaborative tool can be used in the classroom.

• Richardson, Will (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. New York: Corwin Press.

  This book is on order for the library. If you would like to be alerted when it comes in you can email Sue. Here's the Table of Contents.

• McLaughlin, L (2005, June, 30). Everyone's blogging. PC World, Retrieved June 1, 2006, from http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121663,00.asp.

  This article provides a good overview of blogging and links to some of the common blogging tools.

• Exploration Guide:Educational Uses of Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, etc.

  From TLT group.

• Creating wikis

• PBwiki - A free, password-protected wiki creator. Easy to use.
• seedwiki - Another popular, free wiki creator.

• Creating and exploring blogs - This not an exhaustive list, but just a few of the more popular/enduring services. You can also link to a blog you create in your web page or coursepage, essentially incorporating that content into your own space, although you are using the service to easily publish blog content.

• LiveJournal
• MSNSpaces
• Blogger.com - possibly my favorite tool for creating a blog
• Bloglines - RSS aggregator - you can add blogs manually or by a search feature
  • Sue Gallaway's Blog Feeds
• Technorati and Google Blog Search - blog search engines

• Sample of Web 2.0 coolness
  • Flickr - photo storage and sharing
  • del.icio.us - bookmark manager
  • Connotea - bookmark manager --"...a free website to help researchers...manage and share information."