Posted on August 9th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Here’s the link to our final class archive. Thank you all for an enjoyable summer session. http://edbreeze.sdsu.edu/p66634145/
Here are a few other links that came up today in class.
Thank you, Matt for finding the link about setting up multiple email addresses. http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=64#post-1391
Misty, for providing the link for Voice Thread
http://www.voicethread.com
Craig for the humorous imitation of the [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Karl Richter
I’ve received a number of questions about the assignments for this course. Here’s a list of everything I’m looking for.
Your responses to my blog entries on this site.
Your individual wiki “smackdown” or comparison.
Your contributions to the group articles. List your contributions on the Discussion page of each article you’ve contributed to.
Your 1 minute Podcast, [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Karl Richter
This upcoming Saturday will be our last session together. I’m going to provide lots of examples of collaborative projects, and you’re going to tell me whether you think a blog, wiki, or podcast is the best way to do it.
I’m going to share my feedback on what I’ve seen of your collaborative articles, and [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Karl Richter
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 [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Karl Richter
You’ve got 2 assignments where you’ll be making podcasts. The first is a 1-minute audio podcast. Be sure to include your voice and some background music and/or sound effects. You’ll upload that audio file to your edublog as I’ve done below. Listen to my sample for a little more information.
1minute
Here is a link to the [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
Here’s a link to the archive of our session on 8/2.
In class we mentioned a number of changes to the timeline, which have been updated on the the schedule page.
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
Thanks to this article on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog, I think I’ve found a great resource for teachers to use for podcasting or video podcasting. Edublogs.tv just launched in July. Typically I wouldn’t recommend something I haven’t had a chance to use, but the edublogs crew that has put together this wonderful blogging community has earned [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
Sure, it’d be great to have your podcasts overlap with Billboard’s Hot 100, classic Beatles songs, or your favorite band, but as you know, copyright restrictions keep them out of the classroom. Be sure to use Podsafe music for your podcast projects.
Here are a few resources for free or royalty-free sounds. If you’re using Garage [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
Of course there are lots of ways to spend money on the iTunes Store, but there are also great resources available to download for free.
You only need the iTunes application installed, you don’t have to have an iPod to listen to podcasts.
If you like, you can go to iTunes U free of charge. [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
Sometimes too much control is a bad thing. Sitting at your desk in front of a microphone can be intimidating. It’s tough to start talking to yourself without feeling like your cheese is sliding off your cracker. Powerful editing software and lots of background music gives you unlimited options, but is it too much?
Consider the [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Karl Richter
I thought I’d point you toward a few good wiki resources. If there are wikis I don’t know about, but should, please add them to the comments.
The Classroom 2.0 group has fantastic user community. (If you’ve never seen them you should check them out.) The users have created this wiki resource with resources for [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Karl Richter
I’ve been reading your wiki comparison articles, and for many of you, I’ve included some comments at the bottom of the page. If your page doesn’t have comments yet, it will soon.
I’d like you all to begin posting to your blogs. I want to learn more about your projects so that I can know what [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Your comparison of 2 wikis is due tonight, so I won’t give you an additional assignment to comment on.
(Special thanks to Marty whose Wiki Smackdown article has this picture.)
Even though not all of your articles have pictures of angry kangaroos, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen of your articles. Make sure your name is added to [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Karl Richter
There are people out there who think Wikipedia should be banned. Senator Ted Stevens, believes you should Ban Wikipedia in all schools and libraries. This is the same man who famously described the Internet as a “series of tubes.” He doesn’t have what you could call cyber street cred, so he’d be easy to dismiss, [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Karl Richter
I’ve enjoyed reading your comments about being Pioneers, Settlers, or Colonists, the classic roles that people play in adopting new technology. I really saw that exercise as a warm-up for the links I’m sharing with this weekend.
Wikis need to be adopted by a larger group to add info from multiple vantage points, and to take [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Karl Richter
I hear the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Let’s be honest with ourselves. We’re EDTEC students, and we like to try new things. Why learn about emerging technology? For some of us, it’s just because it’s new.
I buy a new iPod just about every time they come out with a [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Karl Richter
A news reader allows you to read everything that’s happening on a Web site without ever viewing it. Without my newsreader, there is no way I’ll be able to see what you all are posting to your blogs for this class. You’re all teachers. Could you imagine visiting all 20-something of your student’s blogs every [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Karl Richter
I’d like you to watch this screencast about the evolution of the heavy metäl ümlaüt. The screencast is a few years old, so the current wikipedia entry has changed since then, but it’s a great look at how collaboration is happening on these articles.
The discussion pages are fascinating to me, and are a critical ingredient [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Sadly, this is a true story. I popped over to my own blog today after our class to write a quick post, and when I signed in, I saw that I had 53 comments waiting for moderation. All of them are spam. What happened?
I don’t post to my own blog very often, and don’t get [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Thanks for a good session. Good luck in Wikispaces this week. Here’s a link to our recording.
Here are my slides from today.
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Karl Richter
I’ve enjoyed reading all of your comments. I’ve been blogging since 2003, but am quite sure that I’ve had more comments in this week than I have in 5 years of blogging. Of course I realize that you all are posting because it’s a requirement, but I’ve really enjoyed checking your comments each morning. (Hang [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Isn’t youtube great? I know it’s probably blocked in your district, and can be tough to use it in the classroom, but I love the fact that we can find, make, or share videos with other people from around the world. There are lots of youtube spin offs, like Teachertube.com is a youtube for educators. Or [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Yesterday’s screencast showed you how to manage your links and how I set up the links to everyone’s blogs. Hopefully you aren’t having any trouble moderating or leaving comments on your classmate’s blogs.
Now that nearly everyone has added the email addresses you used to register for edublogs.org, I’m going to to add you all as [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Karl Richter
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 [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Should you be blogging?
Well, of course, I’d say that you should be blogging because you have assignments. (Just to clarify, each week you are required to respond to my entries on this blog. A reminder that you need to have your Edublog set up and have your first post written by midnight Tues. You have [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Karl Richter
A short post from me today, because I want you to spend time reading some of 2007’s top Edublogs. Visit the EdublogAwards.com Web site, and look for a blog that interests you.
There are 14 categories for different Edublogs. Visit the links on the right side of the page to see the nominees for any of [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Internet Explorer
One of my pet peeves is people that call this icon “the Internet.”
Yes, it takes you to the internet, but no, it isn’t the program that runs it. Internet Explorer (IE) is just one of many tools you can use to browse pages. This post explores a few of the alternatives, and hopefully you’ll [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Throughout this course, we’ll be looking at both the benefits of new technology and the risks that come with using it. Blogs and Wikis are vulnerable to spam, so your settings are a critical part of set-up. As I’m writing this, you all are posting comments on our first post.
I used Jing to make a [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Karl Richter
Here’s the link to the archive of our first session together. This site is really the best resource for information, but if you’d like a copy of my slides, you can find those here.
There is no prompt for this post, so you don’t need to comment unless you’d like to. Thanks for a good session. [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Karl Richter
This post is my chance to introduce myself. I’ve been teaching classes in our department since I graduated in 2006. It’s the second time I’ve taught learning through blogs and wikis, and the third time I’ve done the podcasting class. However, it’s the first time I’ve combined the two, which is going to be a [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Karl Richter
We’ll be using Edublogs.org for this class. If you’re familiar with Wordpress, you’ll recognize the publishing software. If not, don’t worry. There are a number of wonderful video tutorials to help you get started.
I chose Edublogs over some of the other multi-user blogs for educators, because they’re free, they’ve got great support, stable software, and [...]
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