Comparing Audio Recording Tools

Tool	Record Directly On the Site?	Upload Recordings? Upload an Image?	Comment On or Reply to Other People's Recordings?	Create a Link To your Recording?	Embed Your Recording on Blog/Glog?	Share through Facebook, email, Twiter, other?	Use an RSS Feed?
Voxopop	The recording was pretty painless.	I tried to upload my recording for hours.  This was extremely difficult - maybe due to recording size.  Image- no trouble.	N/A	Easy.	Easy.	N/A	N/A
Podomatic	No problems here.	Recording- easy; image- same	N/A	Painless.	Easy.	N/A	N/A
Chirbit	Very easy.	Both were quite easy.	N/A	Very easy.	Very easy.	N/A	N/A
Vocaroo	Ok.	A bit problematic with the recording.	N/A	Easy.	Easy.	N/A	N/A
Audioboo	More difficult than the other programs.	Very hard time getting the recording to not come out all jumbled - tried it honestly 15 times.  Recording is still jumbled. Image-N/A	N/A	Easy.	Easy.	N/A	N/A

Twitter for Teacher Networking

    After reading the online articles for this week (Langwitches Blog and Free Technology) (and looking at the posts from the educators that I follow, I was able to connect the two easily.  The articles suggested that teachers rarely have time/opportunities today to connect like we should.  I remember hearing about the teacher's lounge from my teachers when I was in school - it was described as an area of comiseration among the teachers.  Now, we are so burdened by our ever-increasing workload, demands of keeping ourselves abreast of teaching practices, and a total lack of time.  Unfortunately, this means collaboration and moral support is hard to come by.  I myself have felt this and wanted opportunities to reach out to my colleagues.  Twitter seems to be the perfect way.  Not only can I "follow" educators, but I also have the ability to tag them in my posts or search for revelant terms (using hashtags) and find suggestions/tips/etc. from other educators.  I actually was able to "follow" one of my previous professors from undergrad who is a fantastic foreign language educator.  I was so fortunate to find her on Twitter and be able to follow her posts.  What a new opportunity we have now with this technology!