learning with technology

Many people heard of YouTube, how about TeacherTube? It looks very similar to YouTube except it was created by a lot of teachers. You can also upload the video for sharing and making comment. However, you need to declare the video is for teaching and learning purpose only and copyright free. It is more safe to view TeacherTube in classroom. Here is a video from TeacherTube. It is a quick look about a street in Nanjing, with the viewpoint from Western people. They descirbed this as a teaching material in school.

There is a lot of freeware that can support collaborative drawing of Mind map. Bubbl.us is one of the most simple concept map drawing that can support multiple users. Hers is a drawing produced with bubbl.us .

The concept of Podcasting is easy to understand but far more difficult to implement, produce and publish. For receiving Podcasting materials, the most easy way is to downloand itune from http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and then you can subscribe a lot of interesting podcasting materials, such as CNN, BBC and other Pop songs. Some are free and some are marked with price for subscription. However, if you want to produce your own Podcasting station and for others to subscribe. You need to have some basic knowledge in audio recording, mixing and podcasting. Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net)is a easy-to-use and powerful freeware for audio recording and mixing. After producing your mp3, you need to upload the mp3 to a server and then you can make use of itune to podcast your mp3. The logistis is simple but difficult to a lot of beginners.

Podcasting is to broadcast your mp3 to the people who has subscribed. Most of the time it is combined with the function of RSS , Really Simple Syndication. Here is one of the examples. How to capture your voice into Windows Movie Maker. mp3

You are browsing a blog and I am sure you should know what is a blog. Here is a simple and easy to be understood video about blog.

Social Bookmarking Del.icio.us is a wonderful social bookmarking freeware for you to share your favourite websites to others. Similar to other web 2.0 technology, keyword tagging is applied for easy categorisation and information retrieval. Here is my del.icio.us . People having same interest might group into a community to share their bookmarking, with the function of subscribion and RSS, latest updating can be shared without delay. Here is an example called markazine created by a group of Hong Kong media people.

Armidale of Australia, located midway between Sydney and Brisbane, is a place full of red leaves during April.