Transcript Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs OH MY!

Podcasts and Wikis and
Blogs! OH MY!
Jody Klopp, ASO K-12 Academy,
Oklahoma State University
Jason Noble, Ogden High School, Ogden, Iowa
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas
any more.
As Coroner, I thoroughly examined her. And
she's not only merely dead, she's really
most sincerely dead.
Then this is a day of independence for all
the munchkins and their descendants.
Yes, let the joyous news
be spread the wicked old
witch at last is dead!
Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick
road, Follow the, follow the, follow the, follow the,
follow the yellow-brick road. Follow the yellowbrick, follow the yellow-brick,follow the yellow-brick
road….
Podcasts
What is a Podcast?
The official definition:
A podcast is an episodic program delivered via the
Internet using an XML protocol called RSS. Podcast
episodes can be audio files, video files, documents,
or any combination of the three. The publisher or
broadcaster podcasts the program by posting the
episodes and the XML document to a Web server.
The consumer subscribes to the podcast using a
client application, such as iTunes, which regularly
reads the XML file and downloads new episodes.
Taken from Apple iTunes website:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/fanfaq.html
What is a Podcast?
The “plain English” Definition
“A podcast most commonly refers to an audio
file, but can also be a video (vodcast) or text
file, that is subscribed to via a web format
known as an RSS feed (Rich Site Summary).
Whenever the podcaster updates or adds
content, the RSS feed sends the new content
to an aggregator like iTunes or other sites.”
- Jason Noble - 2/26/09
How to begin using
Podcasts
First…..
• Listen to / subscribe to world language
podcasts/vodcasts
You can subscribe to “podcasts” through any number of
free aggregator sites:
• Podcast Ready (podcastready.com)
• Miro (miroguide.com)
• iTunes (iTunes Store - Podcasts - iTunesU
• Create a list of podcasts for your students
How to begin using
Podcasts
Then…..
• Listen to a podcast as a class activity
• Create a podcast for your class
• Have your students create a podcast
So what do I need?
• Necessary:
• Computer with
Internet connection
• Computer
Microphone - You
can record from
your phone using
the website:
www.drop.io
• Optional
• iPod or other mp3
Player (to listen on
the go)
• Audio editor
(audacity.com is a
free web tool)
Some Podcasts to Check
Out
Notes in Spanish
http://www.notesinspanish.com
Cody’s Cuentos
http://www.codyscuentos.com
Coffee Break Spanish
Spanish News Bites
http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/
Extraviados (“Lost”)
http://extraviados.es/cat/podcast/
• Poducate me - an online guide to
podcasting
• http://poducateme.com/
Dorothy : “ Don't be silly, Toto.
Scarecrows don't talk.”
Wikis
• Wikis and Bulletin Board Analogy
• A wiki is a website version of a community
bulletin board. Both are places where
anyone within a community is free to publicly
post announcements, ads, ideas, and/or
solicitations. The main difference is that wikis
allow the items that are posted to be edited,
reworked and remixed.
• Imagine that you are looking at a community
bulletin board.
• What if you could digitally edit a misspelled
want-ad, or add artwork, music, or other types
of files to a concert flyer to make it more
useful or aesthetically pleasing? Finally, what
if your bulletin board could be viewed not only
by local residents, buty by the whole world?
• That is a wiki.
• http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikisplain-english
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Student Website
Student Workspace
Projects
Collaborative Textbooks/Journals
• Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,”
and start saying “Publish it.” - Alan November
Free wiki site
• Wikispaces.com
• Wikispaces is very easy to use, reliable,
and k-12 teachers can get a plus
membership upgrade for free.
• Full privacy, only people you allow in
can see your wiki
• No advertising
• Unlimited use
My favorite wiki sites
• http://swcolt.wikispaces.com
• http://worldlanguages21stcentury.wikisp
aces.com/
• http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/
• http://larcsocialmedia.wikispaces.com/
Other free wikis
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Wetpaint.com
Wikidot.com
Pbworks.com (formerly pbwiki.com
Wiki.com - search wikis
Blogs
I could wile away the hours conferrin' with the
flowers, consultin' with the rain..and my head I'd be
scratchin’ while my thoughts were busy hatchin’, if I
only had a brain.
What’s a Blog?
• A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is
a type of website, usually maintained by an
individual with regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other material such
as graphics or video. Entries are commonly
displayed in reverse chronological order.
• Definition taken from Wikipedia 6/24/09
• http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Blog
An Example of My Blogs
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http://jodyklopp.wordpress.com
http://osusolsp1.wordpress.com
http://osusolsp2.wordpress.com
http://osusolsp3.wordpress.com
http://osusolsp4ap.wordpress.com
Where do I start?
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Class Blogmeister
Edublogs
WordPress
Blogger
TypePad
More blog sites
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LiveJournal
Moveable Type
Tumblr
Windows Live Writer
Thingamablog
For great tips on using blogs in your
classroom http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/21/
50-useful-blogging-tools-for-teachers/
How to Begin
• Read/Subscribe to Ed.Tech/World Language
Blogs
• Connect with teacher bloggers
• Create your own private blog
• Play with your blog
• ….before you integrate technology into your
classroom, you’ve got to integrate it into your
lifte. -- R. Richard Wojewodzki
(@TeachPaperless) via Twitter 6/23/09
Uses for Blogs
• Use your blog for posting class assignments
• Use your blog to post useful links for your
students
• Have students read and then post a comment
on your blog or another blog
• Student journaling
• Place for reaction/response to material
• Individual and collaborative projects
• Teacher uses - expand your PLN
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was the Wizard of Oz is
one because because, because, because, because,
because…because of the wonderful things he does.
OH MY!
OH MY
• CLEAR conversations and audio drop boxes
(clear.msu.edu) Rich Internet Applications
• Twitter (twitter.com/osusol)
• Polldaddy
• Dvolver (http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies302071)
• Voxopop
• FM Blip (http://blip.fm/osusol)
Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh why
can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond
the rainbow, why, oh why can't I?
Courage! What makes a king out of a slave?
Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave?
Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk
in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes
the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!
From now on you'll be history ….You'll be
his…..You'll be his….You'll be history.. You will be a
bust….Be a bust…be a bust in the hall of fame.
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Come back! Come back! Don't leave without me!
Come back!
Wizard of Oz: I can't come back! I don't know how it
works! Good-bye folks!