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basic blog building blocks July 20, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in global, groups, learning, miniLegends, other countries.
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links from the CEGSA07 state conference what do others link to?

Read and Comment         Write and Manage

     Posts and Pages

     Text and Pictures

[Audio and Video]

site - staff/students

broader community – parents/care-givers

district

state

national

global and connected
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Test podcast using box.net July 20, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in Edublogs, Telling Our Stories, animation, connect, filtered sites, global, groups, learning, literacy, miniLegends, other countries, podcasts, safe and savvy, search, technology, video.
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Why is Web 2 Important to Education? Al Upton 2 MB Nov, 2006
[this file has now been 'embedded' into this blog]

Stored on box.net – a free storage site http://www.box.net/
Upload your mp3 (sound file) – perhaps use audacity

To get the link, click the file in box.net and copy the url (address at the top of the player)

You can also paste in the public link
(IE visitors to your blog can link across to box.net to listen to recording/podcast)
http://www.box.net/shared/qd1kz42r6g
BUT this technique is likely to be blocked/filtered in SA government schools. This means you will need to upload and embed the files away from your site. It is possible for a site administrator to unblock sites at the local level but I do not promote this.

In the editor (when you write a post or a page) there is an icon with an ‘A’ on it. This is for embedding (copy and paste) the URL of different media files such as You Tube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm etc – not all are recognised but it’s worth a try – very quick, easy and powerful. NB You do this in the Visual editor (not Code) but will see code until you save the post or page.