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The folks at Edublogs were kind enough to share my list of ten classroom podcast ideas with participants in their Better Blogging With Students course as well as with all of their Twitter followers. This morning I asked the Edublogs folks if they were ...

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Here are the latest updates for nurhasaan10@gmail.com "Free Technology for Teachers" - 4 new articles How to Include Podcast Episodes In Your Blog Posts How to Add Voice Comments to PDFs and Word Documents My Top 5 Choices for Making Multimedia Quizzes Quit Social Media - Do Deep Work More Recent Articles How to Include Podcast Episodes In Your Blog Posts The folks at Edublogs were kind enough to share my list of ten classroom podcast ideas with participants in their Better Blogging With Students course as well as with all of their Twitter followers. This morning I asked the Edublogs folks if they were allowing the embedding of Anchor episodes into blog posts (Edublogs hasn't always allowed every embed code source). It turns out that they are. I made the following video to demonstrate how to embed Anchor.fm podcast episodes into your Edublogs blog posts. (This process will also work in Blogger).   Applications for Education If you already have a classroom blog running and have people following it, include your students' podcast episodes within blog posts to make it easier for people to listen to what your students are producing. That is probably easier than trying to get parents and other blog followers to remember to visit another web address to listen to the podcast. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories 5 Audio Recording & Editing Tools - Feature Comparison Chart How to Create a Podcast How to Schedule Blog Posts   • Email to a friend • How to Add Voice Comments to PDFs and Word Documents People who subscribe to the weekly Practical Ed Tech newsletter got this tip yesterday. But this is too good not to share with everyone. Kaizena, originally just a tool for voice commenting on Google Docs, can also be used to add voice comments to PDFs and Word documents. The process of using Kaizena for voice commenting on PDFs and Word documents isn't quite as streamlined as it is for Google Docs, but it's still fairly easy to do. Watch my video that is embedded below to learn how to add voice comments to PDFs and Word documents.   Applications for Education Adding voice comments to your students' documents can be an efficient way to give them feedback on their work. Voice commenting allows you to give full, customized explanations to your students. It also helps to have students literally hear the comments in your voice as opposed to trying to interpret the tone of your written comment. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories My Top 5 Choices for Making Multimedia Quizzes ViewPure Now Offers Curated Playlists This Is Why I Share Interesting Videos   • Email to a friend • My Top 5 Choices for Making Multimedia Quizzes Over the years I have tried and written reviews of dozens of tools that teachers can use to create multimedia quizzes. But at the end of the day there is just a handful of tools that I consistently think of when it is time to make a quiz myself. Those tools are included in the following chart. Links to video tutorials for each tool are included in the chart. Click here if you cannot see the embedded chart. A few points about the items in the chart: Formative supports embedding media from third parties. That means that you could include an embedded audio file from a source like Vocaroo or Anchor.fm.  Vizia responses land in a spreadsheet or CSV file of your choosing.  If you're wondering why I didn't include Kahoot or programs like it, I put Kahoot in the category of "game" and not something I would use for an assessment that would go into my gradebook.  This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories Ranked Responses - New Microsoft Forms Question Types Avoid This Common Google Forms Mistake ViewPure Now Offers Curated Playlists   • Email to a friend • Quit Social Media - Do Deep Work Last night I watched Dr. Cal Newport's TEDx Talk titled Quit Social Media. In this thought-provoking talk Dr. Newport presents the case for quitting social media. He presents the case from the standpoint that social media fragments our attention and prevents us from doing deep work. To help people come to grips with the idea of quitting social media Dr. Newport gives rebuttals to the three most common reasons for not quitting social media.    Applications for Education This video could be a fantastic discussion starter in a middle school or high school classroom. And as Monique Bakken stated on Facebook, ironically, the video was a good example for her students of a professional oral essay. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories Making Maple Syrup - A Science and Math Lesson ViewPure Now Offers Curated Playlists This Is Why I Share Interesting Videos   • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles Making Maple Syrup - A Science and Math Lesson ViewPure Now Offers Curated Playlists Why I Created "From Blog to Job" Puzzles, Rockets, and Podcasts - The Week in Review The Cat In That Hat Knows A Lot About That - Educational Activities Inspired By Dr. Seuss

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