Learning Web 2.0 » Personal http://chriswherley.edublogs.org and Sharing Web 2.0 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Using MyPlick.com for podcast http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/using-myplickcom-for-podcast/ http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/using-myplickcom-for-podcast/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:32:43 +0000 chriswherley http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/?p=29 Maybe podcast isn’t the correct term or maybe it is.

MyPlick.com allows you to sync audio with slides. I find it much more informational than just uploading your slides, especially as it is becoming more popular to use less words on slides.

MyPlick allows you to upload slides from various sources such as PDFs, Powerpoint, and even Google Presentations. It allows you to upload audio to the site, so no need to host the .mp3 elsewhere.

Here is an example of a recent myplick “podcast” that our JH Principal put together. He is now scheduling a Tech Breakfast for the teachers to learn as we share the process. Give it a try and let me know what you think of myplick and what other tools and techniques you utilize for podcasting.

]]> http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/using-myplickcom-for-podcast/feed/ 2 Train or Earthquake? http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/train-or-earthquake/ http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/train-or-earthquake/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:48:06 +0000 chriswherley http://chriswherley.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/train-or-earthquake/ Thursday night I checked into the Union Station hotel in Indy. When checking in the front desk person let me know, “This is an active train station. Your room should be far enough from the tracks, but you may notice some noise or vibration and we just let patrons know that if you hear anything or feel any vibrations, that it is not a hurricane.”

I said, “You mean an earthquake.”

She said laughingly, “Yes. Not an earthquake and definitely not a hurricane.”

So on Friday morning at around 5:30 Indy time, I was probably the most relaxed person in the Midwest when I was awakened by the vibration and noise of the the closet doors in the hotel room. Not until I turned on the TV around 6:30, did I hear the morning news person say earthquake. I just started laughing and changed the channel and sure enough they were telling about the earthquake as well. 

I always thought that it was tornados, that sound just like a train.

It still makes me laugh.  It was an earthquake, but I just thought it was a train.

I think the hotel will need to need to retrain their front desk personnel and what they tell people when checking in. :-)

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