// Langwitches Blog

I am back home in Argentina on vacation until the end of July. One of my projects will be to keep up a travel blog for my Spanish students.
You can follow along at Travel Blog: Argentina 2006

The free online tools keep finding me today.
Two SLIDESTORY sites seem to be promising in using them in the classroom.
1. Slidestory.com
You can offer transcripts with each episode.
2. Bubbleshare.com
Create albums, record stories, upload to bubbleshare or your blog.
On the top of my head, I am thinking of TPRS stories, cultural slideshows of target language countries, [...]

So what do you do, when you want to create, update and upload a podcast when you are on the road on vacation?
There is a free podcast utility that can help you do this in addition to many different other functions:
GABCAST
What is Gabcast?
Gabcast is a social broadcasting platform that offers virtual communities, individuals and organizations [...]

Once you have an account with MyTubes.com it is easy to create and upload your own videoclips.
The easiest way is to your still photo camera. Most of them nowadays will have a setting that lets you take short video clips with audio.
1. Download the video clip from your camera to your computer
2. Import the video [...]

More and more people are uploading their video clips to share with the world to the web. While obviously there is a lot of “junk” out there, there are also some valuable video clips that can be incorporated into your lessons. I have shown videoclips from Diego Maradona’s goal in the World Cup of 1986 [...]

Here is a list of online sites that I have been collecting that provide great services if you are creating your own podcast:

Podomatic: Hosting, Listener Call in Line, Record Video and Audio Online.
PowerGramo: Record Conversations on Skype.
K7: Messaging Service: Listener Call in Line.
FeedBurner: Create, Publish and Publicize your Podcast.
Vaestro: Audio forum software. Talk to your [...]

I just created an account in Flickr.com
According to Wikipedia.com:
In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs,
the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed.
There have easy tools to directly [...]

An introduction to the NEW World Wide Web

by Terry Freedman This is an awesome free resource for any teacher about the new Web 2.0 tools (blogs, vlogs, podcasts, wikis, etc.) and how to integrate them into the classroom with explanations and project ideas. It is a collaborative effort of 14 different leaders in the [...]