NSW LearnScope Blog & Podcast

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You may have noticed that our blog now also has a podcast feed - check the right hand top corner of our webpage !

Robyn and I have debated at times how we can encourage readers of our blog to also access the associated podcast ( audio ) with a post in the blog which serves as the central word in and out of NSW LearnScope.

 Our Podomatic account has sufficed till now and yet we are running out of space and it’s going to cost more to maintain.

We have also debated and hummed and harred over the best ways to demonstrate to organisations that PHP driven environments with scalable , open-source and free alternatives with an internationally recognised accord and associated dvelopment community can and will make things easier for the management of content created by like minded individuals.

Hence, our extra efforts to show you ways in which you can reliablly bring into your organisation easy-to-install solutions which encourage open-web-publishing and networked learning economy.

This allows us to upload data from anywhere securely, tag appropriately, get onboard statistics, use of our existing massive bandwidth, generate cross-data appreciation from readers and most handy of all ……..”control” where and how our production looks to the reader - you ! …….our most prized associates !

So ………after much mucking around in the back end of WordPress ( this blog ) we have discovered how to integrate both and provide you ….the reader with the files whether for you to listen to ( pop-up ) or to download ( your own media player ) or to subscribe to - just add the feed URL to your feed reader ie. iTunes.

I’m now going to be able to interact with teams on the run, record interviews and upload them with ease, construct a post to ellucidate my experience and post them one-by-one into this space for your listening pleasure.

If you now go back a few posts you’ll see the associated podcast with each post…….

……and yes it’s a valid feed address and works on my iPod or iRiver or iGoogle or ……….perhaps you’d like to try Wordpress out for yourself before you attempt to host your own.

 Here’s an email that’s being forwarded around from EduBlogger who also use Wordpress . ( ps. we are not endorsing their product rather pointing to yet another tool for your use as an Educator )

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