I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of familiar faces at the upcoming Virginia Society for Technology in Education conference in Virginia Beach! Today I’ve posted the handout for my “bring your laptop” session on blogging best practices. This presentation is also available in a movie format, which I published earlier this week in the Technology Times Live podcast.

At VSTE this February I will also be leading a workshop session on Adobe Photoshop. Some of the topics we’ll cover are already covered here on Hendron’s Digest. Hope to see YOU at VSTE.

In the book RSS for Educators, I mention using a WordPress blog plugin called PodPress. Today I created a video that covers its basic use.

Publishing a Podcast with PodPress WP Plugin from John Hendron on Vimeo.

This video was produced in a series of 5 instructional videos for introducing our new blogging installation to teachers next month and throughout August.

In this video tutorial, I explore how (easy it is) to use drop.io a free “storage locker” for your media. Using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), it allows you to easily publish podcasts or documents to your friends, students, or colleagues.

drop.io and RSS from John Hendron on Vimeo.

I will be presenting at the Virginia Society for Technology in Education this year in the Washington Lecture Hall on Monday at 4 PM. My talk is on how we can use podcast project-based lessons in the classroom, and tailor them to students who exhibit the traits of digital native learners.

Podcasting for Digital Natives from John Hendron on Vimeo.

I encourage viewers of this presentation, or live attendees of the conference, to post questions/comments to this blog post! Thanks!

Instructional Resources

• TechTimes Newsletter: PodPeople
• Podcasting with Garage Band
• Subscribing to RSS Feeds
• Podcasting with Audacity

Noteworthy Podcasts

• Principal Austin “Asks the Roadrunners”
• What do we do? (in Digital Graphics class)
• Mount Vernon x 5
• Art Smart Elementary Art Projects
• Yoakum-Doerr’s Podcasts

This is a presentation/workshop I am giving at the Maggie Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, VA.

Using Found Multimedia for Instruction from John Hendron on Vimeo.