Happy [Belated] Birthday

EdTechClass turned one year old on August 13, 2006. It all started as a sandbox for me (Brian) to play in and learn about Blogger and blogs in general. EdTechClass has evolved several times thoughout the year and I imagine that it will continue to evolve. For the most part it has been a place to solicite feedback about the courses that we teach. In the future, I [Brian], plan to learn more about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to edit the template we use in Blogger. This is to make this blog a worthy resource for our colleagues, but more importantly a friendly place for teachers to visit and use as a valuable resource in implementing technology into their curriculum.

So, thanks to all of you who subscribe to our blog and please send us your suggestions at edtechclass@gmail.com.

Podcasting

Watch out Rush, we are podcasting now! Thank you for taking this class today, we hope that you have left with an understanding of what podcasting is and why you might want to do it.
Here are some additional resources you might find helpful when you are planning a podcasting experience for your students.

Educational Podcasts

• Yahoo! Education Podcasts
  
• Room 208 Podcast
  
• My German Class Podcast
  
• Military History Podcast
  
• Visit your iTunes Music Store and search Podcasts
  
  Creating Podcasts Resources
  
• Creating Podcasts
  
• Segment Planning Booklet
  
• Podcasting in Education Video Series
  
  Podsafe Music Resources
  
• The Free Sound Project
  
• FreePlayMusic.com
  
• ACIDplanet
  
• Podsafe Audio
  
• MacAudioGuy
  

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• What is one thing that you learned?
• What is one thing that the class instructor could have done better?
• What is one way that you plan on using this in your classroom?

Blogging 101

We covered a lot of information about blogging today. We often have told people that to understand blogs and get a feel for what they are capable of, they need to subscribe and read blogs. We have chosen Edublogs (a Wordpress service) as our choice of blogging service because of the easy user interface, control features and quick publishing of posts and comments.

Please remember to use our wiki resource to remind you how to use certain features of Wordpress. We hope that this class has gotten you thinking in terms of what weblogs could do for classrooms, schools and for you professionally.

Educational Blog Examples

• Literacy in Math, Science & Technology
  
• Room 208 Blog
  
• Cool Cat Teacher
  
• Get Your Blog in Shape
  
• ScienceBlogs.com
  
• History is Elementary
  
• Blog search at Technorati
  

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* What is one thing that you learned?
* What is one thing that the class instructor could have done better?
* What is one way that you plan on using this in your classroom?