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You can create a flash player using gCast, Classroom 2.0, or Odeo. The flash players, or badges are a little bit of code that you can copy and paste into your page to share media. This ODEO player is much slicker than the audio plugin that comes with our Edublogs.

Classroom 2.0 is similar to a myspace or facebook profile, which is great if you’re into that. It’s a great resource with plenty of other good options, but I’m mentioning it looks like a good, teacher-friendly way to get the code to embed in another place.

Once you’ve got an audio file, you can upload it to your Classroom 2.0 page.  You’re allowed to upload a total of 100 tracks, each of which can be up to 20 mB.

Then you can click the Get More Badges link on the right side of the page and you’ll get a player that you can embed in your site. I uploaded a royalty free song from my computer. If I had uploaded more files, it would play all of them in a playlist. Note: The badge actually plays your playlist, which will work well if you want to play through all the student’s podcasts.  It’ll work poorly if you’ve uploaded your favorite Snoop Dogg track to listen to as you grade papers.  So plan accordingly.

You can share music and movies on the Edublogs.tv site, too. They also will generate the embed code to run audio or video players.

I used to recommend Odeo.com as my favorite podcasting resource, but can’t say it’s the best place to go. If you’re curious, you can read about their last 3 years in this techcrunch article. If not, here’s the way Odeo displays and episode of an ESL podcast. You, too could upload your files to odeo, then get badges that look like this. (I think they’re better than the badges from Classroom 2.0. )

Nothing required for you to do here… just including it as good info to know about.

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