New Tools for Student Communication

Podcasting

Tools for podcasting

• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• Garage Band 2 http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

• Apple iTunes 4.9 http://www.apple.com/podcasting/

• Audioblogger http://www.audioblogger.com/

• iPodder http://ipodder.org

• Podcasting Resources for Educators and Students http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html

About Podcasting

• Education Podcast Network http://epnweb.or

• Room 208 Podcasts http://bobsprankle.com/blog/

• School Blogs Educators’ examples http://www.schoolblogs.com/listTheSchoolBlogs

• David Warlick’s 2 Cents http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/index.php

• Bobby Bucket Show (Sprankle’s celebration of books and reading) http://www.bobbybucket.com/blog/B96573213/index.html

• Barnaby Wasson’s NECC Presentation: What is Podcasting? http://necc.dmit.asu.edu/archives/05_06_28_NECC_Podcasting.pdf

• Yahoo! Groups: Podcasting-Education http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Podcasting-Education/

Wikis and Blogs

Tools for Blog Creation

• BlogMeister http://classblogmeister.com/

• LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com

• Blogger http://www.blogger.com

• Movable Type http://www.moveabletype.org

• Xanga http://www.xanga.com/

• Edublogs http://www.edublogs.org

• Easy Journal http://www.easyjournal.com/

• School Blogs http://www.schoolblogs.com/

About Blogging in the Classroom

• Read-Write Web in the Classroom (Will Richardson) http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2004/04/27

• Peter Scott’s School Library Blogs http://blog.xrefer.com/schoollibraryblogs.html

• David Warlick’s 2 Cents http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/index.php

• Educational Bloggers Network http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/

• Blogs and Wikis as WebQuest Tasks (Dodge) http://webquest.sdsu.edu/necc2004/blogs-and-wikis.htm

• Blogs in Education http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/

• All About Blogs (Warlick) http://davidwarlick.com/classpage.php?page_id=3162&status=nomore   

• Tom McHale's Open Classroom: Using Technology, Transparency, and Discussion to Transform Education http://tmchale.blogspot.com/

• Hunterdon Central American Studies Weblog (McHale) http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/americanstudies/

• Journalism 1(McHale)  http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/mcjournalism

• Lewis Elementary Blog http://lewiselementary.org

• Edublog Insights http://anne.teachesme.com/

• Weblogs Compendium http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html

• M & M Online Magazine (Brandon Middle School--George Mayo) http://mrmayo.typepad.com/magazine/

Tools for Creating Wikis                   

• Seed Wiki http://www.seedwiki.com/

• List of Wiki Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software

About Wikis

• Wikipedia Entry: Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not (Brian Lamb) http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp

• What’s a Wiki? Tap Into the Quickest, Easiest Way to Publish on the Web (Brian Lamb)
  http://www.e-strategy.ubc.ca/news/update0401/040121-wiki.html

• Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
  http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04/richardson.shtml

• My Brilliant Failure: Wikis in the Classroom (A constructivist teacher's cautionary tale) http://kairosnews.org/node/3794

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