Robin Young on February 23rd, 2009

I had a request from the 6th grade science teachers to create a video tutorial on Audacity so kids who choose to make a podcast in an upcoming webquest, could do so if they so chose.  I thought I would share the video here as well. Here is the handout that goes with it.  Audacity [...]

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Robin Young on June 11th, 2008

This post explains a work around to posting audio files when you don’t have the space to host and stream the files. Back in the fall the US History teachers wanted to post student created audio files and videos quickly (24 hours turn around). We didn’t have a space to host these types of files for [...]

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Robin Young on May 29th, 2008

Final exams are wrapping up and by all accounts it looks like our little experiment is working out well.  What was it?  I have been exploring using iPods in the classroom and had mentioned the possibilities to a colleague on campus.  She ran with the idea and next thing I know we have all the final exams recorded and saved [...]

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Robin Young on February 19th, 2008

I have been trying to send out various podcasts in hopes of inspiring you to become listeners of what is happening online.  Ridgeview will be launching it’s own podcast forum in the next few weeks (look for it before Spring Break).  In getting away for a few moments from education I thought this week I’d show [...]

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Robin Young on January 25th, 2008

To become more familiar with what podcasts are and what they can offer us as educators, I thought I would send out links to good podcasts for teachers to listen to from time to time. These podcasts can be subscribed to so you are notified when new shows are broadcasted. They can be listened to [...]

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