Keeping Up: Using Web Tools to Stay Current in Your Field and Enhance Instruction
September 13, 2006
Sue Gallaway and Judy Metcalf
------->Handout on how to setup journal alerts
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Blogs, RSS, and Podcasts Resources
Shortcuts:
Podcasting
- Finding podcasts
- Podcast aggregator application: Juice
- Sample Educational Use of Podcasts
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- 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."
Blogs and RSS
- 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, Will (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. New York: Corwin Press.
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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 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.
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