ch. 8 Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, and Live Streaming

Multimedia Publishing for the Masses

I spent so long on this chapter. I tried out some of the sites that are recommended, and had mixed results trying to figure out what's most useful and for what purpose, and which sites/tools are most user friendly.

• Podcasts: Radio Willow Web  Cut idea. Seems simple to do. The URL did not work, but I found it by an Internet search. I could adapt this to do a Spanish radio show. Maybe connect with students in a Spanish-speaking country. Maybe we could use Skype also to connect with those students. I'm very interested in ways to connect my students to the cultures and authentic use of the language.
• I also explored Brent Coley's Web site for his 5th grade class...Very easy to navigate, and loaded with resources for students and for teachers. He explains all the tools he used to set up his site and to publish student work on the site. For example, he (or the art teacher) published student artwork using simpleviewer.net to make a nice gallery of student work. I think the work is taken first from Flickr, so I wonder if we can just use Flickr to do something similar. He also used http://kidblog.org/home/ which looks pretty easy to use, to record comments about books they were reading. Just like we're doing with our book reflection blogs for this class.
• SCREENCASTING This is probably one tool that I'll be able to use immediately. I've already started to play with it using Screencastomatic. Richardson recommends Jingproject.com. I started to look at the site. I wonder if it's easier to use...If I understand correctly, after setting up the screencast, then it still needs to go through screencast.com if you want it published to the Internet.