Podcasting

This was another new experience for me and just like the others, once I got everything downloaded it seemed quite simple. I used gabcast.com because I didn't have a microphone to use the audacity software. Gabcast allowed you to record over the telephone and provided you with 5 free minutes worth of talk time. I was able to listen both over the phone and on the website, delete, re-record a couple of times and I was provided with two links to post onto my blog. For those that don't have access to a microphone I would recommend googling other options, there were pages and pages for podcasting with the telephone, so I'm sure there are others out there.

Gabcast! School #1

Photo Share

I decided to explore with PhotoShow for my photo share blog. PhotoShow allows you to upload photos from several different places (facebook, shutterfly, flickr, etc) and create a photo slideshow. Since I already have the majority of my photos in a shutterfly account, it was definitely the best fit for me. PhotoShow is very user-friendly, everything is right there at the click of the mouse and you can actually see what changes you're making before finalizing them. I also liked the different options that were available to help me personalize my slideshow. The only tip I have for new users is to play around with the different options and styles to see what you like. I think I went through all of them until I found one that fit with the pictures I used.

RSS Feeds

Oh, so that's what that orange icon represents?!?! I know I've seen it several times on different websites and even in microsoft outlook, but I never really knew what it was used for.

It was kind of hard for me to get the feeds onto my blog as a matter of fact I'm still not even sure that I have them on there correctly. I choose the Department of Education website as my educational site because I'm always looking at differnt things with schools, espesically with I-STEP coming to and end, I'm interested in the results. My technology website was kind of hard to find, I kept looking until I found somethin I thought would be of interest and went with it. CNN and Indystar were both easy because I like to keep up with current events and I'm on the website frequently. One of my favorites is Global Grind. I've been following that one since I saw it on MTV - it usually has all of the latest celebrity gossip and happenings as well as current events.

I think I will use these feeds frequently and will keep them on my blog. I definitely didn't expect to have access to this much information right at the click of my mouse.