Another Firefox Add-on, (Needed for Podcasting)

Vodpod. Google it and install it in your Firefox browser.

It lets you download video and embed it in your blog.

More importantly, it’s the only way I’ve been able to embed my podcasts into WordPress.

Although I promised a video, it seems my screen capture software is not compatible with Vodpod, so next post, I’ll describe the process in excruciating detail.

Addendum: Once you get VodPod, you need to sign up and give it your WordPress log-in information so it can post stuff to your blog.

Podcasting Made Easy

Would you like to record a class for an absent student, or a review session before a big test, or instructons for students when you are out?

Go to GCast and set up an account. Then, if you have a blue-tooth earpiece for your cellphone, you can dial a number and record your class over the phone! Then you can go to GCast’s website and link to it on your blog or upload it, as I did here on my blog as an experiment. (Just click on the arrow to play.)

(BTW, you don’t need an earpiece; I just figured it would be difficult to teach with a cellphone pressed to your ear for 45 minutes. If you have a speakerphone option, that might work too, although most of them sound like you’re talking from the bottom of a large tin barrel.)

Inserting them into your blog is a big tricky and requires a work-around, which I will document in a later post with a little video.