2.0+Web+Tools-Photosharing+and+Podcasting

What is Flickr? Flickr is an online photosharing site. It is a lot like a wiki or a blog, except only for pictures. You can post up to 100 MB of pictures per month (about 500). This is a great way to share your classroom with the community, school or parents. Flickr is not an online editing site, though, so you should edit your folders on your computer before uploading them to Flickr. Flickr does have the ability to be a private network, where you invite those you want to look at your photos. This would probably be a good idea for classroom use. [|Here is a video on how to get started with Flickr]. To start, go to [|Flickr.com] Flickr does require a yahoo id, so you will have to get a yahoo account prior to registering with Flickr. If you haven't seen yet, it's probably a good idea to have a google account and a yahoo account as most of your free webtools use one or the other. Here's a Flickr site for the NBEA national convention - [|NBEA] An example of a business education classroom using Flickr-[| Mrs. Knox]
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**Picnik is a Web 2.0 tool that will allow you to edit your photos if you do not have the expensive photo editing software. The website is [|http://www.picnik.com]**

What is Podcasting? Podcasting is more simple than you think. It's really just recording your voice onto your computer and putting it in a public venue. Reading your PowerPoint slides could be considered podcasting. The neat thing now, is you can podcast anything. You can create your own radio and your own movie. The reason it's called a podcast is because you can download it to your iPod and take it with you. A great place to find podcasts is, of course, iTunes. When you have iTunes on your computer, search education in the podcast search box. You will get numerous examples of podcasts that you can put on your iPod, or just download onto your computer, and usually for free. There is also a website that has a bank of educational podcasts: [|Education Podcast Network] [|Southwest High School Podcasts] [|Apple's Lesson Plan Ideas] [|The Education Podcast Network]
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To do Podcasting yourself, you will need some type of recording program like Audacity and a class set of headphones with microphones.

[|Audacity]is a free program. All you will need is a headphone/microphone set. If you use a Mac, Garage Band will also work. Once you are in Audacity, there are tutorials online that you and your students can use to learn how to do Audacity- [] . You can also use PowerPoint to create a podcast and insert the slides into Movie Maker. This will allow you to talk through the slides. iMovie on a Mac works the same way. These are great tools. And, your students will have a lot of fun doing it!

If you would like to use something other than moviemaker, there are free tools online where you could make commercials or other videos with your students. One such tool, suggested in this summer's session at MTSU, is Animoto. Check it out! [|www.animoto.com] Here is a PDF on the Nuts and Bolts of How to Create your own Podcast:

A great majority of this information came from my course work at UT. Particularly, from this book: Richardson, Will. __Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful WebTools for Classrooms__ 2nd Edition. Corwin Press. 2009.
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