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==**Back to School 2009 Presentation:** 21st Century Classrooms (PDF)==

**Using Blogs in the ELA Classroom**
 
 * What are blogs and how can we use them in education?**
 * 7 Things About Blogs from Educause Learning Initiative
 * ViewBlogs in Plain English video from Common Craft
 * Paper Cuts Blog--New York Times Book Review
 * Visit the Edublogs blog Texas Schoolmarm to read and comment
 * Reading and Subscribing to Blogs**

 
 * Will Richardson in his book //Blogs,// //Wikis, Podcasts,// //and other Powerful Web Tools// //for Classrooms// points out that teachers need to become readers of blogs before using them with their students. //The first step is to take some time to just read some good Weblogs. A good place to find some that might interest you is the "Find New Blogs" list at Bloglines// (www.bloglines.com/topblogs)
 * Google has a Blog Search
 * Recommended Blogs Written by Educators**:
 * [|NCTE Inbox Blog]
 * [|NCTE Secondary Section Blog]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Donalyn Miller's [|The Book Whisperer]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Troy Hicks' [|Digital Writing, Digital Teaching]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Jenny Levine [|The Shifted Librarian]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Will Richardson's [|Weblogg-ed]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Anne Davis [|Edublog Insights]
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 * RSS Aggregators**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">View [|RSS in Plain English] from Common Craft
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Two aggregators which allow you to subscribe to blogs:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Reader **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**:** Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Bloglines] **: With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines.
 * Keeping Students Safe**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachers are obligated to teach students responsibility, appropriateness, and common sense as students publish to the Web.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Schools and libraries are required by the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) to filter content that is accessible via the Internet. In addition, CIPA requires that schools monitor the online activities of minors and to have a policy in place that addresses the "safety and security" of minors when online. (CGB System Support Office, 2005)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Parental Approval for students to publish online is important. Link to [|Sample Blogging Letter] to send home with students.
 * Creating Our Own Blogs**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Edublogs] or [|Blogger]? Advantages of a blog site set up for educators:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Ad free
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Increased privacy options
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Greater teacher control
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Easier to have unblocked at the district level
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a blog account at [|Edublogs.org]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Edublogs User Manual (in our workshop folder on your desktop) and [|Getting Started With Edublogs Help & Support]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Share your blog with us! Go to [|our workshop blog] and post your blog's name and URL so that we can read and subscribe to it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a couple of posts on your blog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Creating User Accounts] for students with email addresses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Edublogs Instructions: [|Creating blogs and accounts for your students]

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 * What are wikis and how can we use them in education?**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">View [|Wikis in Plain English] video from Common Craft
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|7 Things About Wikis] from Educause Learning Initiative
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Examples of educational wikis:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Classroom2.0 wiki] for educators
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Welker's Wikinomics], winner of the 2007 EduBlog Awards "Best Educational Wiki" award, for students and teachers of Economics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">List of educational wikis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Vicki Davis, a teacher at Westwood Schools in Camilla Georgia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">New York high school [|class wiki on Macbeth]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Honors British Literature class wiki using discussion tabs for class discussions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wikispaces wiki on how to create a wiki, including a Powerpoint presentation and handouts for getting started
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wikispaces discusses educational use of wikis []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Instructions on how to add references to your Wikispaces wiki []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|PBWiki]'s information on educational use of wikis, including [|K-12 examples of educators' wikis], [|engaging students in an online classroom] (webinar), and a [|library of resources] to help teachers use PBWiki; [|Adding footnotes to a PBwiki].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Wetpaint] wiki on using wikis in education
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Weebly] allows users to create a free website and blog
 * Creating our own wikis at Wikispaces.com**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Visit our workshop wiki at Wikispaces
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a wiki for yourself at Wikispaces
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Share your wiki name and URL with us on the Wikis page at Wikispaces

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 * Online Research**

Online tools have revolutionized the research process, making 3X5 notecards and manilla envelopes definitely "old school."

We need to admit to our students that googling (using search engines) has become a credible way to research information. Case in point: [|On CNN Your Money Show,] host Ali Velshi interviewed Richard Sloan, co-founder of[| Start-up Nati]on, who advised business people to "Google like mad."

VELSHI: You have a few tips, Richard. It's your passion. Take stock, taking stock of your skills and commit to your concept. Test drive your concept, but you know what I like? Google like mad. Your fourth point. What do you mean by that? There's free research out there.

SLOAN: Well, look, you've got to have the passion and that's going to be all about playing to your passion and you have to take stock of what your real resources are. You have to make sure you have a tight concept and you want to test drive it with other people, but Google like mad means you have information available to you today to be strategic, to be smart, to make great decisions in strategies based on all that data that's available to you by being a good googler. Pull in that information, use it, incorporate it into your strategy and you'll have much better chances for success.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Portable Applications for USB devices make it possible to carry your data with you where ever you go. Download [|Mobile Firefox Web Browser][|Delicious toolbar], [|Google Notebook extension], and [|Zotero] (a Firefox extension that helps you keep track of your information and cite it.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Learning to Ask the Right Questions is the key to effective research. Jamie McKenzie's "[|The Question IS the Answer]" at his //From Now On Website// contains a wealth of information on asking good questions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Searching the Internet is easier and more efficient these days with [|Google's Advanced Search] and Meta Search Engines like [|Dogpile][|Clusty] that search across numerous search engines. and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Online Citation Machines: [|Son of Citation Machine] and [|KnightCite Citation Service] generate citations from data that users enter. These services allow students to spend their greatest effort writing their papers instead of laboring over citation formatting. Library databases like [|EBSCO] now have a feature that creates citations for any article accessed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Colleges and libraries have online resources for helping students write research papers and cite sources correctly.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Infopeople.org has a [|Best] [|Search Tools] portal worth checking out.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Berkeley Library] has [|Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask when Evaluating Web Pages], as well as [|APA and MLA Style Guides] for downloading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Purdue University has an excellent [|Online Writing Lab (OWL)].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Online library databases like [|EBSCO] make it possible to locate magazine, newspaper, and journal articles from any Internet accessible computer. Many also contain images and primary source documents. Check with your school librarian for the user names and passwords for the databases your school can access.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Online bookmarking sites like [|Del.icio.us] make it possible to bookmark websites from any computer and have them available anywhere by logging into your account. Students can collaborate with peers by sharing their bookmarks. Users create a free account for themselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Google Docs] allow students to record ideas and create drafts of their work and save them so that the documents can be accessed from any Internet accessible computer. Students can also share documents with others and collaborate on projects.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wikis are great places to post assignments and links for students. [|PBWiki] and Wikispaces both offer free wikis for teachers. Students can also build wiki pages for a research project. Check out the Discoveryisms wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Intel has created a [|database of assessment tools] that teachers can access for free. Rubrics can be personalized and saved to the user's workspace or printed as they are.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Digital Storytelling in Secondary ELA Classroom**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Extension of a memoir writing unit
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">View samples and resources from [|BBC Capture Wales site]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Talk about how it has to be about the story and then finding images that help tell the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discuss elements of a good story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write a 200-250 word **story** and save it in a **project folder** on the desktop.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find 5 or 6 **images** that help tell the story; save them to project folder.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Open PhotoStory 3 and import your pictures.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Record story using the PhotoStory3 narration tool, clicking through the images and recording the chunk for each image.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find music at [|FreePlayMusic.com] . Save it to the project folder.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Import audio file and images into Photo Story3 to create video.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Create title and credits. You can do this in PhotoStory or in PowerPoint. Powerpoint slides can be saved as a jpeg (picture file) and then imported into Photo Story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make sure that story length and pictures match. PhotoStory will cut off the sound file when the last picture has displayed. To change the length the pictures are on the screen, use the Customize Motion button on the Narrate Your Pictures window in Photo Story.
 * Other Resources**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Digitales Website] (Bernajean Porter) Sample videos and teacher resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Center for Digital Storytelling [|http://www.storycenter.org]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tokoni Website [] is a collection of digital stories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Stories for Change [] is another collection of digital stories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|YouTube video about ELL students] creating digital stories after interviewing someone.

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 * Podcasting** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">

E**ducational Uses of podcasting:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find and use quality podcasts like the ones listed below in the lessons you already teach:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Grammar Girl]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|NPR This I Believe]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|NPR In Character]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|NPR's American Experience] also has a [|podcast.]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Memory Palace] is a history podcast of short, surprising stories from the past.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Listen to this podcast about the students who produce the [|Portable Radio podcast]:[| http://www.carleton.ca/midweek/audio/clip20070214-2.ram]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Radio WillowWeb Podcast: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|SIRS Podcast Contest on Leading Issues] Check out the contest finalists' Enhanced podcasts at []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Check on [|Thinkfinity.org]'s website regularly for lessons that use podcasting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Dan Schmidt's Kidcast podcast has great information about improving the quality of students' podcasts at []
 * Understanding Podcasting**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting from Educause []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Podcasting in Plain English from CommonCraft []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">P odcasting Tools [|http://www.podcasting-tools.com] has simple explanations of what podcasting is and how to do it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Learning in Hand [] is a site geared to education that explains what podcasts are, how to find and listen to them, and create them. Great resource!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Learn Out Loud's Introduction to Podcasting: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher Tube video introducing podcasting []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher Tube video on how podcasting enhances oral language in the classroom:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Will Richardson's book [|Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools for the Web]
 * Finding, Subscribing, and Listening to Podcasts**

>> [|Google Reader] [] allow you to listen to your favorite podcasts from any Internet accessible computer without downloading them onto the computer you are using. > **Podcast Alley** [|http://www.podcastalley.com], > **EPN (Education Podcast Network)** [|http://epnweb.org], and **Learning in Hand** [] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Readers are tools that allow listeners to subscribe to podcasts they want to listen to on a regular basis.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**[|iTunes]** will download the newest podcasts automatically and save them to your computer when the iTunes program is opened.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Online readers** like [|Blog Lines] [] and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Search for podcasts with **iTunes**,
 * Podcasts for Educational Use**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">T.E.D. Talks


 * Free Tools for Creating Podcasts**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> You will need to download [|LAME MP3 encoder] to convert your file to an mp3 format. ( Because of software patents, Audacity cannot put this encoder inside their program.) > Sign up for a free account and record audio files using your telephone. Each recording can be up to 60 minutes in length. You dial an 800 number, type in your channel number, channel password, and record your episode. The episode is saved as an mp3 file to your account where you can download it to your computer and open it in Audacity. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Audacity** is a free audio editor that can be downloaded from the following link: [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Free Play Music** [|http://www.freeplaymusic.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Gabcast** [|http://www.gabcast.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Edublogs** [|http://www.edublogs.org] Posting podcast episodes to a blog creates RSS feed for them so that others can subscribe to them.
 * How to Cite Podcasts** : Name of author, host or producer (if available). "Title of podcast." Date of podcast. Podcast. "Title of Podcast show." (if different than title of podcast). Title of larger site (if available). Date of download.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Examples:
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Mondello, Bob. "Charlton Heston, Old-School Gentleman, Dies at 84." 8 May 2008. Podcast. "NPR Movies". __National Public Radio__. 10 April 2008. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89421208> Source: Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 15, 2008 from []