EDTEC 700

You know from the title of this class that we’ll be talking about podcasts and vodcasts, but here’s an example of a screencast.  A podcast is an audio file, and a vodcast is a video file, but a screencast is a narrated screen recording made with something like Adobe Captivate, or Tech Smith’s Camtasia or Jing.

I have a brief 3 minute screencast that I made with Camtasia.  It’s intended to show you how I added all of your blogs to the right column of my our class blog.  In the video, I show how to add a new link, how to manage your links and a little bit about the Blogroll widget.

Click here to watch. 

What’s not in the video is the difference between categories and tags, but this article does a good job of explaining it.

Prompt

1. Add a new link to the sidebar of your site.  By default you all have links to wordpress.com and wordpress.org.  Add a link to this blog (edtec700.edublogs.org) and any other links you’d like.

2. Visit at least 10 of your classmate’s blogs and leave a comment.  If you have something meaningful to say in response to their initial post, please say it.  If you have a great link that you think they’ll appreciate, go ahead and leave it there.  If you don’t have either, just leave a comment that says “Hi.”  The reason for this exercise is to get everyone some experience moderating comments on their blogs. 

You all should get a number of comments in the next 48 hours. Approve anything that isn’t spam. I’m doing a follow-up post tomorrow on some of the settings.  

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