Room With A View

Wesley Fryer presented a session entitled I’ve Recorded a Podcast, Now What? He focussed on tools that are free or low cost that teachers can use to post their podcasts. I’ll post some of his links below in case you want to follow them.

Though I enjoyed Wesley’s presentation I’m not convinced podcasts hosted outside of our school is the right way to go at ISB. Externally hosted sites help with some of the support issues of local hosting and lessens the load on our school’s servers/bandwidth but local hosting is better for us. By hosting locally we don’t have to worry about the slow connection speeds we face when we try to surf outside China. Also, we don’t have to worry about investing a lot of time into a site to suddenly find China has blocked it and we can no longer access our content. Finally, we learned from the earthquake north of Taiwan in December 2006 that it’s best to keep our content close to the principle users. For several months many of us had trouble getting to our wikis at http://wikispaces.com because of a broken pipe. Lesson learned, keep content close to those that need it.

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/podcasting2
http://teachdigital2.wikispaces.com/podcasting2
http://www.podcastpeople.com/

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