Merry Christmas & Happy Vacation!

Merry Christmas to all my students! I hope everybody has a fun-filled Christmas with family and friends.

Safe travels to all, and Happy Vacation!

See you back at school on January 7th, 2008...

Our First Podcasts!

Today was an awesome day in computers! We recorded our first video podcasts and it was up to Mr. Dooley to put the video together and up on our host (comp17-8.podomatic.com).

Are you ready for it? You sure? You really want to see our first podcasts? Well...here you go!

Just kidding! Looks like we had a HUGE error with the webcam, and we did not capture any audio to go with the video. We'll be working on this again next class...

Podcasting - Episode 1

Class - I am out sick today, but I want you to begin preparing for podcasting! Start to think of a topic that you would like to cover in a podcast and discuss with some friends in class.

If you want to comment on this blog post about your interested topic(s), that will give me a head start so that on Thursday we can assign groups and begin working on Episode 1!

Want to embed music into your personal blog?

For those of you wishing to embed music or audio into your blog, it's easy!

Go to your template tab and 'Add a Page Element.' Select the 'HTML / Javascript' option and then copy and paste the following text:

<embed src="replace with your link" type="audio/mpeg" autostart="true" loop="true"> </embed>


This will only work when you find a song or mp3 file that is ALREADY on a website! Replace the link inside the quotes with the link to the audio file you want to include.

This is what it will look like:

What is Podcasting?

Watch the following video on podcasting so we are ready to introduce it for our next class. I want every student to post a comment and in *your own words* tell me what a podcast is. This will help us all understand podcasting really well, so help each other out!

Did you know you can get FREE podcasts, and you DON'T need an iPod to listen to them!?
We'll discuss this in class!

Do NOT Drink Near Your Computer!

Any comments?

Free Blogging & Search Blogs

Any student wanting to create their own blog, remember to discuss this with your parents first due to the age requirement of 13. Feel free to visit the following sites to create a FREE blog with your parents and/or older siblings:

http://www.blogger.com
http://www.wordpress.com

To search other blogs out there on the internet, check these out:

http://blogsearch.google.com
http://www.technorati.com/blogging