Making some Noise: Podcasting & the Power of RSS
Why RSS?
1. Better consumers of information
2. creating content for users
Student Life blog for institution (hcc central) push rss feeds from library into webct, student life blogs etc…
Articles relevant to course content funneled to own pages
askaninja.com
[Podcasting is a factory for making apple pies for whales]
Library’s are recording book talks, story time, newbooks, blurb reading, local history. Participatory web
To podcast you will need sound reducing microphone headset.
Look for podsafe music
RSS building tools:
• Rss to javascript: http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
• Feed2JS: http://feed2js.org
• Feed Digest: http://www.feeddigest.com/
RSS enabled blog:
Blogger.com
Wordpress.com
Podcasting Tools
• podcasting creation
o studio.odeo.com (free use website)
o audacity.soruceforge.net (free download, don’t forget the LAME mpe encoder download)
This was a fabulous session by Shell Drumm a dynamic speaker with an easygoing style. It was a fun, interesting and informative session!!
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