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Vocab Lesson: Podcasting

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Still one of the best sources for simple, to-the-point explanations of emerging tech concepts, Common Craft has now produced “Podcasting in Plain English.” Podcasting in Plain English explains, in about 3 minutes, the essential hows and whys of podcasting. The process is pretty easy and really requires only a microphone and some free software in [...]

Vocab Lesson: Blogs

Friday, November 30th, 2007

In case I haven’t mentioned before, I am a big fan of the folks at Common Craft. I think that somewhere deep down inside, these folks missed their calling into teaching. They’re very good at simple explanations of otherwise complex topics. Common Craft has produced “Blogs in Plain English,” the latest installment in their “Plain [...]

Vocab Lesson: RSS

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

RSS is a term probably unfamiliar to most, both in and out the education field. You may have noticed a “subscribe by RSS” option in the lefthand column of the blog’s main page. Same idea. The folks at Common Craft have a series of “In Plain English” videos where they describe some recent web tools [...]