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 * Blog resources (Please feel free to update and add new resources to the following):**
 * About Blog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
 * Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/start
 * Edublog: http://edublogs.org/
 * The Edublog Award: http://incsub.org/awards/2005/the-edublog-awards-2005-shortlist/
 * RSS feed reader: [|http://www.bloglines.com]
 * RSS feed: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/feed101
 * Ulises’s blog: http://ideant.typepad.com/

Blog Resources:
 * Google page creator: []
 * wordpress: http://wordpress.org/
 * http://www.blogger.com/
 * How to create blogger: http://www.blogger.com/features
 * http://www.easyjournal.com/
 * http://www.xanga.com/
 * http://www.weblogger.com/
 * ClearBlogs: http://clearblogs.com/

More Blog Resources: [|teacherlingo] [|usatoday]


 * How to add links to your blog**:
 * When you get to the Template and see “Add and Arrange Page Elements”
 * Click on “Add a Page Element” on the right-hand side of the page
 * A new window opens, click on Link List / Add to Blog
 * A Configure Link List window opens:
 * Title: You can type something like “Special Links”
 * New Site URL: just type in the address of your link www.
 * New Site name: whatever you want to refer to that link by
 * Select save changes
 * Preview
 * View Blog
 * To add more links, edit your link section


 * Podcast:**


 * Free Online Services:**
 * Gabcast: [|http://www.gabcast.com]
 * gcast: [|http://www.gcast.com] Gcast review: //Information Week// [||http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183700930&subSection=Breaking+News]

__Incorporating your gcast podcast into your blog__: Design your player size, color and themes on __Step 4: Add the player to your page__, click on "copy code to clipboard" sign into your blog ([|www.blogger.com]) choose "Add a Page Element" choose HTML/JavaScript In the window, paste your gcast code Save**
 * BELOW IS WHAT YOU NEED FOR PODCAST ASSIGNMENT*
 * Listen to your podcast and then click on "Love this podcast? Add it to your blog or myspace."

There was a free online service for podcast from [|audioblogger.com] but I'm not sure if it still works.

Podcast Resources: a. Podcasting News [|http://www.podcastingnews.com] b. Educational Podcast Network [] c. Apple Corporation iTunes U [] d. Duke University [] e. UC Berkeley [] f. Arizona State University []


 * How to Create a Podcast:**
 * Step by step" on podcasting: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11293_7-6246557.html?tag=txt
 * http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/
 * How to make Enhanced Podcasts: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/how_to_make_enh.html
 * Use free downloadable audio editing software: Audacity 1,2,3 and $10 microphone to make podcast (by Suzie Ridgway!) sounds fairly easy: http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=4075489&nav=menu7_8_15 (amster)

What you need to create podcast:
 * Audio recorder: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 * Feedburner (XML): http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
 * Podcast directory: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
 * Publishing a podcast: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

How to create a vodcast:
 * http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/07/howtovodcast/index.php

Applications of Podcasts: ° [|www.coffeebreakspanish.com] free 5-minute basic Spanish lessons for traveling and talking to Spanish friends ° [|www.desdeelbano.blogspot.com] more advanced Spanish with idioms and slang phrases podcast from Argentina ° [|www.frenchpodclass.com] weekly French language and culture programs with songs and book reviews ° [|www.learnitalianpod.com] basic Italian lessons ° [|www.chinesepod.com] Mandarian Chinese lessons broadcast daily from Shanghai ° [|www.spoonfulofrussian.com] "learning Russian one bite at a time" vocabulary and Russian songs from: "Podcasts Make Learning More Portable" by Catherine E. Schoichet, //St. Petersburg Times// printed in the //Cincinnati Enquirer// 28 Jan. 2007, F6. (Amster)
 * Podcast applications in clinical setting:
 * Dr. Margaret Maag's podcasting/vodcasting lectures: http://www.maagnursing.com/podcast/
 * iPod Imaging: http://www.primidi.com/2005/01/06.html
 * Dr. Burks Oakley's Podcast on Learning:
 * how to podcast: http://burkso2.blogspot.com/2005/09/burks-on-podcasting_20.html
 * Podcasts: http://burkso2.blogspot.com/
 * Podcast from Mrs. Mills' Second Grade Class http://burksselect.blogspot.com/2005/11/podcast-from-mrs-mills-second-grade.html
 * The Education Podcast Network: http://www.epnweb.org/
 * Art Museum: http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/art/2007/01/tafts-luminist-podcasts-are-delight.asp Cincinnati's Taft Museum of Art has created podcasts with original music and actors' narration to "complement and augment" the Luminists exhibit. Other area museums are expected to follow suit.(amster)
 * Foreign Language Lessons:

News and fun on Postcasts:
 * Harvard Crimson, November 22, 2005: "Harvard Offers Course Via iPod" - about an introductory computer science course offered through Harvard Extension that has all its lectures available as podcasts. See: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510065 The course is "Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet"
 * Science Friday: http://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/
 * Learning Circuits: Trend: Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning http://www.learningcircuits.org/2005/jun2005/0506_trends.htm
 * Cole Camplese ( [|http://camplesegroup.com/blog/)] talks about innovative uses for collaborative spaces and Podcast in distance learning in higher education: http://necc.dmit.asu.edu/archives/050630_NECC_ADE-Cole_Camplese.mp3 or http://necc.dmit.asu.edu/archives/2005/06/cole_camplse.htm and then click on the link
 * http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/
 * Covering the Hurricane Coverage: http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/07/10/
 * Podcast interview of John Alexander, the President of The Center for Creative Leadership on Leadership Development Trends (Audio Download and Text Transcript versions at: [|http://www.learning2006.com/university)]
 * How to Podcast Campus Lectures: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i21/21a03201.htm

Blog tools:
 * Blog Studio [|www.blogstudio.com]
 * Blogger [|www.blogger.com]
 * DiaryLand [|www.diaryland.com]
 * Free Open Diary [|www.freeopendiary.com]
 * Manila http://manila.userland.com/
 * MoveableType [|www.moveabletype.org]
 * Multicity [|www.multicity.com]
 * Pitas.com [|www.pitas.com]
 * Radio UserLand http://radio.userland.com/
 * TongueWag [|www.tonguewag.com]
 * TypePad [|www.sixapart.com/typepad/]