Frustrating and Exciting!

There are so many things I should be doing at this moment, but needed to share this with all of you!! We have been working on uploading our podcasts to our blogs. Such a simple sounding task I know; but as always with technology there have been glitches. I am continually telling my students I am learning right along with them; hence the name of my blog, but today was able to model that for them. Students discovered our media player was displaying their first and last names; something we discourage for our 7th graders. I didn’t have the solution, so asked my entire class to stop what they were doing at that moment and search the “Tindeck” site for answers. I also shot off a quick email to Tindeck asking for advice. Jenn timidly raised her hand and shared her discovery. We could edit our tracks and change the name of the artist, thus solving our problem. Much to my surprise, I received an almost immediate response from Tindeck, who unknowing to me is based in Australia. They didn’t have the resolve, but were willing to see if they could go in to accounts and make corrections to user names. I replied with the student resolve. Thinking that would be the end of my communication with Tindeck, I didn’t pay much attention to my email. Well, I was wrong. That was not the end of my communication. Tindeck was interested in how we were using their site (this is actually when I found out they were located in Australia). So what started off as a very frustrating lesson, turned in to one of the better and more exciting couple of classes I’ve had in a long time.
It is interesting how quickly the world becomes so small and connected. Just one of life’s great “teachable moments”!!!

Adding Your Podcast to Your Blog

Adding your podcast from you Tindeck account is very simple. All you need to do if paste the HTML coding in to your post.
 **Make sure you have the "Edit HTML" tab selected instead of the "Compose" tab.  Both of these tabs are located in the top right hand corner of your post box.  Check with me if you aren't sure about what I mean. 
Go to Tindeck and log in. Click on my profile to find the selected track for your podcast, and open it by clicking on the podcast track. Once it is open, in the bottom right hand corner you will see a green check mark and the words "Get Embed/Link Code." You will need to left click on this tab. It will bring you to a page with a variety of options. Scroll down a bit until you see, "Embedded Player." Under this you will see a box with the embed code (HTML language) for your podcast. Simply select or highlight all of the code, I find grabbing it from the bottom to work best, and copy. You will then paste this code on your blog post exactly where you would like it to appear. Publish the post, and you will see your audio player there ready to go! Have fun!!


Upload MP3s using free MP3 hosting from Tindeck.