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News and Online Education pages for blogs and podcast links.
Blogs and RSS
- Class Blogmeister
Site designed specifically to allow teachers to create shared blogs for their classes; allows teachers to preview student submissions before they are published.
- The Edublog Weblog Awards
"Awards for scholarly and education focused bloggers."
- EduBlogs.org
"Blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education." Also sponsors EduBlogs Campus, for class and student webblogs and eportfolios.
- EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Podcasting and Blogging
a FAQ and introduction to podcasting and blogging for teachers.
- Reading, Blogging, and 'Rithmetic?
A March 2005 article in the NCTE journal "The Council Chronicle" about the use of weblogs by teachers and students.
- Voicethread
"A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways..." Includes free accounts for educators.
- The Youth Bloggers Network
"This is a blog and forum for young bloggers to find resources and communicate with bloggers their age."
Podcasts
- ClickCaster
Podcasting host with tiered pricing system.
- How To Podcast
"The definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast without breaking the bank." Includes nice tutorial on using the popular free audio editing program Audacity.
- Podcasting 101 Wiki
A wiki for librarian podcasters and others.
- Podcasting and Blogging
a FAQ and introduction to podcasting and blogging for teachers.
- Podcasting Legal Guide
Information on copyright for podcasters, including information on 'podsafe' sources of music and various options for licensing your own podcasts.
- Podcasting News
News about podcasting, lists of podcasts, podcast search, and a wealth of links to resources for podcasters.
- Podsafe Music
From the SCC Library Music Online page, a selection of sites offering music which is freely available for use in podcasts.
- PoducateMe
Site about podcasting in education, with lengthy Guide on every podcasting-related topic imaginable.
Wikis
- So You Want to Build a Wiki?
Though aimed at librarians, this guide has good information for everyone.
- Using Wiki in Education
"10 case studies written by teachers that describe how they're using the wiki to transform courses and engage today's students."
- Wikispaces for Educators
Free version of Wikispaces' $50/yr plan specifically for educators. "We've heard countless stories of excited students and empowered teachers. They've told us about their collaborative essays, group study guides, online lesson plans, and classroom notice boards coming alive on Wikispaces."
