Learning and Leading - November 2009

is Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand blog. The site has video tutorials on podcasting.

Resources

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net CDS News: www.cdsnews.net Feedburner: www.feedburner.com Fetch: http://fetchsoftworks.com GarageBand: www.apple.com/ilife/garageband i Tunes: www.apple.com/itunes Learning in Hand: http://learninginhand.com/

podcasting/ booklet.html Libsyn: www.libsyn.com

Plurk: www.plurk.com

Podcast Maker: www.lemonzdream.com/ podcastmaker

PodOmatic: www.podomatic.com podPress: www.mightyseek.com/podpress SiteGround: www.siteground.com Teach with Video: http://teachwithvideo.com/

podcast.html

Wordpress: http://wordpress.org

—Steven Katz is director of educational technology at Country Day School in Escazú, Costa Rica. He maintains three websites: www.teachwithvideo.com, www.stevenkatz.com, and www.cdsnews.net.

Tip

Track Substitutes with Google Spreadsheets

Problem: it can be difficult to track the availability of substitute teachers when several schools in the same district are drawing from the same pool.

Here’s a solution: Use the spreadsheet function in google apps to track substitute teachers. We create a spreadsheet and then share it out to the personnel who handle substitutes for each building. This allows the person at each building to see which subs are already spoken for and gives us some limited reporting on substitutes without having to pay for a substitute tracking program.

This tip comes from Colin Byrne, director of technology for the Blind Brook School District in Rye Brook, New York. If you have a tip to share, post it on the comment wall on the L&L group page of the ISTE Community Ning at www.iste-community.org/ group/landl or e-mail it to dfingal@iste.org.

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