Audio Postcards with Posterous

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I've been playing around a bit with Posterous and its ability to post audio recordings from my iPhone along with several images to create audio postcards. The example linked below is of a recent trip up to Mt. Tabor park for an evening concert. It is a pretty easy process.( a good description of this can be found on John Johnston's Posterous blog...) Basically I take some images, then using the iPhone's audio recorder app, I record a message and then select the email option. I paste a few images from the Camera Roll app and add any text and then email the message to my posterous account and I have a post with images, text and an audio file. I have created a separate Posterous blog for these audio postcards and I can route the RSS feed from this blog to my timlauer.org account and embed the audio postcard feed in the sidebar. Posterous is really an interesting tool for streaming content to lots of different places...

Concert on Mt. Tabor. If this was a SEC event I might be in trouble.

 

Soul City playing at Mt. Tabor Park

 

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picPosterous

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John Johnston has a post up about picPosterous, an iPhone camera app that allows you to post a series of photos to a posterous post. Nice for adding images to a gallery over the course of an event or through the course of a day. John points out a few limitations and from reading the developers blog it looks as if those will be addressed. One feature I would like to see is the ability to add images to various galleries rather than just the last one created. I could see using this to document classroom visits and samples of student work. Would be nice to have the ability to choose which of my recent galleries to post an image to. For example I might create a gallery for specific classrooms and as I take images I can post them in the appropriate classroom gallery.

picPosterous

Sunday 23 August 2009 at 10:18 pm.

picPosterous is a photo and video publishing app for the iPhone.

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At first glance I could not see the advantage of using this rather than the iPhone's mail application, and neither could TechCrunch but a tweet or two from Sachin, one of posterous's founders both put me on the right track and gave further evidence that the posterous guys never sleep.

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Questions to ask when your child comes home from school...

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Will Richardson has a nice post up about the start of the new school year and questions about school that he hopes his own children will have answers to when they are asked about their school day. A nice way to frame what we would like our students to experience in our classrooms. More suggestion from the folks in the post comments...

What did you make today that was meaningful?

What did you learn about the world?

Who are you working with?

What surprised you?

What did your teachers make with you?

What did you teach others?

What unanswered questions are you struggling with?

How did you change the world in some small (or big) way?

What’s something your teachers learned today?

What did you share with the world?

What do you want to know more about?

What did you love about today?

What made you laugh?

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