I mentioned that I spent the weekend at a writing retreat.  At the retreat, a couple of my colleagues were curious about blogs and blogging, so I sent them here to take a look around.  I also mentioned that they could get up and blogging very easily by hitting sites like Blogger or Blog-City or LiveJournal.  I should have mentioned sites like this.  But I didn’t. 
        "Go to my blog," I told one colleague, "And I’ll post the links there for you." 
        So, Stan, there you are. 
       Now, I could have sent these links to Stan in an e-mail, but then I couldn’t have told you about the neat-o idea that Stan has (Only one of many neat-o ideas I’ve heard from the guy, which might be why he’s the co-director of the CSUWP.).  Stan is Stan McReynolds,  media specialist at Lincoln Junior High School in Fort Collins, Colorado.  He’s got some students traveling to Europe later this year.  He’s also got some iTalk microphones.  Stan put the two together and is now going to have his students record audio snippets of their trip on their iPods. 
        When he told me about his idea, I suggested that he should have the students blog from Europe to share their experiences as well as some of the audio they collect.  We talked, too about soundseeing tours, popularized by Adam Curry, and how his junior high students could record a tour or two, if they wished.  Flickr, the photo site that I am still experimenting with also came up.    These students, from an Internet cafe, can very quickly and easily update their families and other interested folks as they have their adventure.  Pretty cool travel journal, huh? #

        I did a little recording of my own on the retreat.  Do you think there’s an audience for teachers reading their own written work?  That seems like a good educational podcast application if you ask me.  #