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		<title>Podcasting Workshop for 4J</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec 2, 2008, I&#8217;m running a workshop on Podcasting for Eugene 4J.&#160; We&#8217;ll be learning to create, upload and share podcasts.
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		<title>VoiceThread Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I mentioned VoiceThread before &#8211; the marvelous web site that lets you present a slide show and record comments, captions &#38; doodles. The other innovation of VoiceThread is you can invite others to comment as well, creating a visually guided dialog about&#8230; well, anything.
One of my favorites:
See also Kenya Escape, the incredibly powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Holiday Wish List&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/bamboo-fun/2007/12/13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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Sometimes, I want something because it just looks like so much fun&#8230;  Wacom clearly wants us to think that about their new graphics tablet, so they&#8217;ve put fun in the name: the Bamboo Fun, a spiffy little (or medium) USB graphics tablet that has a &#8220;pen and paper feel,&#8221; a patented &#8220;touch ring&#8221; (think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flocabulary &#8211; Learning to a hip hop beat&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flocabulary &#8220;&#8230;uses the educational power of hip-hop music to foster literacy and promote academic success in the classroom and beyond.&#8221;  In other words, get your kids to study by delivering content to a hip hop beat.  You can listen to tracks online or purchase books and CD&#8217;s.
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		<title>Scribbles &#8211; simple, elegant, fun art!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, a new product comes along that takes nothing for granted and comes up with a whole fresh new way of doing things &#8230;that actually really works.  Enter Scribbles&#8230;  a delightful new paint program for Mac OS X.  Gone are the busy tool bars and obnoxious sound effects.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Podcasting Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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Create Your Own Podcast &#8211; A step-by-step tutorial on podcasting from About.com
Educational Podcasting &#8211; Extensive list of podcasting resources, from Gary Stager. Links to tutorials, articles and tools.
PoducateMe &#8211; Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education
Gcast &#8211; Create your own audio broadcast online, where you can easily record voice messages, mix in your favorite music, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edison Student Animators Gets its Start!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just had our first of two weekend workshops for students interested in stop motion animation with Legos and other stuff.  I worked with 2 students (4th &#38; 5th grade) who helped lead the workshop, and another 5th grader who signed on for tech support.  With 14 other 4th and 5th graders as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Started with Podcasting</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/podcasting/2007/11/30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparing for a podcasting workshop this week, I&#8217;ve been collecting new podcasting tutorials.  Some helpful finds:

How to Podcast: Four Basic Steps &#8211; Plan, produce, publish, promote&#8230;
How to Podcast &#8211; from Podcasting Tools
Howstuffworks &#8220;How to Create Your Own Podcast&#8221;
Make Your First Podcast
How to Create Your Own Podcast &#8211; A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Podcasting

Most of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Publishing</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/lulu/2007/11/18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With student publishing projects in mind, and my own projects as well, I was recently reminded of one very cool site,  Lulu.com , which lets you self-publish your own books in a way that books are produced and shipped &#8216;as needed.&#8217;  I have a dream of putting together many of the resources I&#8217;ve developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn a Foreign Language Online &#8211; for free!</title>
		<link>http://haugenka.edublogs.org/mango_languages/2007/11/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Haugen</dc:creator>
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&#160;
Mango Languages &#8211; HomeMango beta is an online language learning system freely available to everyone. Learn at your own pace with a suite of features that make language learning more engaging and fun.
(tags: multilingual free cooltools tutorials language/foreignlang)

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