Today, we’re going to look at some of the blogs and podcasts that a few St. Laurence teachers have started using Posterous. Take a look at them below and let me know if you want to get one started for your classroom or event.

SLCS Tech Blog – http://slcstech.posterous.com

This blog is mainly an archive of all the tech emails I send to the staff, including this one. If you visit the blog, you will be able to search for entries by keyword. Or you can click the tags to the right to drill down your search. Application: you could use a blog to collect emails you send to parents thereby creating a searchable archive and/or an FAQ section.

This I Believe Essays – http://klavery.posterous.com

From Katie Lavery’s Journalism class – students recited, recorded, and posted their essays to a blog. What a great way to share what students are doing. Also, when students know they are performing for a wider audience, the quality of the work increases.

Texas Weatherbugs – http://weatherbugs.posterous.com

From Fran Rice’s class – students use the Weatherbug system to record the current weather and to forecast the weather for the week. This is a collaborative project between our school and Dr. Green Elementary School in El Paso. This is a “proof of concept” blog at this point to show how two classrooms can collaborate and share information.

The last two sites I mentioned are also podcast enabled. What that means is that you can subscribe to the sites using iTunes. By doing this, all new episodes will be pushed to iTunes once they are published. This happens almost automatically. To subscribe to these podcasts, do the following:

1. Open iTunes.
2. Go to the Advanced Menu and click on Subscribe to Podcast.
3. In the window, enter the feed address of the site by adding “/rss.xml” to the end of the address. For example: http://klavery.posterous.com/rss.xml.
4. Click OK and you will then see iTunes begin to download the latest episode.
5. Click on the GET button for each additional episode you wish to download.

OK, I hope you enjoy the sites I listed. It’s time to get out there and blog and podcast your heart away!