To create audio files on the fly, store, and embed them into the blogs:

1. Audioboo  3 min recordings, integrated with Twitter, Facebook, no storage limit yet 🙂 This is an example of embedded boo: listen to ‘Happy Birthday, Emily’ on Audioboo

2. SoundCloud   2 hours total free, integrated with Twitter & Facebook. This is an example of embedded link to SoundCloud: Happy Birthday 2

To record audio files and the ability to edit them (intermediate level):

1. Garage Band on Macs
2. Audacity — free software the mp3 export addition for recording audio.
3. Check this digital audio guide for more info.

To store audio files:

• Audioboo
• Soundcloud
• DivShare

Resources for teaching/learning podcasting:

• 7 things you should know about podcasting
• ELI Discovery Tool: Guide to Podcasting
• 4 mistakes I made when assigning podcasts & comments

I know you are looking forward to Blogging Palooza on January 6th, right?  To get us into the blogging mood let’s read Integrating, Evaluating, and Managing Blogging in the Classroom and ponder some issues you would like to discuss after reading the article.  Please leave your comments, questions, and observations below by clicking “Leave a comment” link. See you on Friday, January 6th!

This assignment is meant to sharpen your skills of critical evaluation and keeping up-to-date with research. You will also gain further familiarity with ERIC database, which can be used for other educational research projects.
Instructions:
1. Choose a textbook topic from the suggested list provided by your professor (e.g., multiple intelligences)
2. Search ERIC on the subject of your topic by limiting to peer-reviewed full-text journal articles and set up an alert (RSS feeds)
3. Create your blog and subscribe to RSS feeds of your search topic
4. Monitor RSS feeds for 2 weeks and choose 2 articles for your reflection
5. Provide a reflective analysis of the two articles and compare them to the textbook article. Do these articles expand the textbook explanation of your topic? Do they contradict? Do they add anything new? Did the articles change your mind about your topic?

User Rating: ******** 8/10 25 votes

Writers: Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol, Mark Lenker, Liz Kocevar-Weidinger

Release date: June 10-12, 2010 (Calgary, Alberta)

Genre: Transcending borders/Exploring new techniques and new technologies

Tagline: Think twice before you ask for feedback

Plot: What is the happy medium between what students want and what we (librarians) think they need? Join us for an interactive hands-on session that replicates the students’ experience of providing feedback on web 2.0 technologies for instructional use. Experience how student feedback changed and improved our library services. Learn about how collaborating with students can have an unexpected impact on your instruction program.

Cast: Librarians, English 150 students, Communication Studies Students, First-Year seminar students, and teaching assistants in Longwood’s first year experience program.

Additional Details: Leaders in higher education are stressing collaboration in both the implementation and development of our services. Longwood librarians responded by developing an iterative process of conducting needs assessments, usability studies, and follow-up surveys to deliver services that respond to the needs of our users.

Find out how our library received feedback from both novice and experienced users on our research guides and how we used that feedback to improve our students’ research experience. During this session, the presenters will provide a simulation, during which participants will be “students” taking usability surveys and then have the opportunity to be “librarians” evaluating the feedback process and responding to the user-suggested changes.

Learn how we built a collaborative relationship with student teaching assistants in Longwood’s first year experience program and how their feedback inspired us to create an online game to help incoming freshmen use the library effectively. Participants will get to play and figure out — which of our librarians is really a dangerous android in disguise—before it’s too late?