After reading her comment on Blogger, I decided to check out her blog, which turns out to be blogs plural, and found even more amazing technological resources that helped me out incredibly. What I want to discuss this morning is extremely pertinent to one of my recent entries. It turns out the she is the PODMASTER of Nauset Public School Podcasts.
Her well-designed site provided me with a great example of how to organize a school or classrooms podcasts. Speaking of good and bad design, Kathy's sites are extremely user-friendly, easy to navigate, and aesthetically pleasing. Truthfully, her information is presented in such a way that I actually felt more comfortable with podcasts and technology after reading through her sites. Using her own podcast evaluation tool, I looked over the site and it scored very well. From the site, it is very clear how to subscribe to the broadcasts or download individual shows. She provides useful links to a variety of related resources and information about podcasting in general. From this site, I can link to the programs I need to listen to and aggregate podcasts. Overall, this site provided me with an excellent example of how to model a similar site of my own in the future. Thanks Kathy!
In addition, I also highly recommend checking out her own blog on educational insights, Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch. Jessica, this site is too cool!
2 comments:
WOW! Not only is it cool that one of your references read your blog, but to find out she has additional information that makes you more comfortable with podcasting is great! I agree with what you said about her website. It does rank high using what we have looked at. I also felt a little more comfortable with the concept of podcasting after looking over her site. I may actually use it before the year is over in my classroom. Are you going to share with your kids what you have discovered and that someone "famous" has responded to one of your posts?
I should show my students this blog, if just to show them the power of blogging that Rick discussed in the forum. It's amazing how connected people really are!
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