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Podcasting via Email? Yay!

Posted by tektrekker on 19 May, 2009

While preparing for a workshop and a webinar on audio tools, I happen to run across Posterous and was immediately intrigued.  This blog tool lets you easily post via your email and even cross-post simultaneously to a number of other sites, including Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, Blogger, WordPress, and more.   And, while those are really cool features, what really got my attention was the ability to podcast via email.

I’ve taught a lot of podcast workshops and I’m always looking for new tools that make it easier to become a podcaster without having to learn a lot of the technical stuff.  Posterous is that new tool.  Imagine it – create your mp3 audio file, email it to your blog, and voila! You’re a podcaster. Posterous takes care of the rest – putting your file into your blog so that it can be listened to there and also having a feed automatically generated so people can subscribe to it in iTunes.

If you’ve been waiting for a simpler way to podcast, then give Posterous a try.  And, while you’re at it, check out how easy it is to use the other features of this blogging tool: you can send ppt, doc, pdf, jpg, avi, mpg files and more to your blog just by sending an email with an attachment. They’ll be put in a format that can be read online and even downloaded and shared with others.  You’ll be amazed at the simplicity and usefulness of this cool blogging tool.

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Improving understanding with images

Posted by tektrekker on 11 May, 2007

If you’ve ever tried to explain complex information with words, you know how frustrating and time consuming that can be – for you and for many of your learners – and images can often be the way to go. However, visual literacy is a skill that many of us have never fully developed…oh, we “get” info in images pretty well, but that’s entirely different than trying to express ideas through images. People who can do that are gonna rule our hyper-rich-media world. So, if you wanna rule the world, Read the rest of this entry »

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