The Top 10 Ways to Engage Online Learners

Easiest Way to make a Podcast (for iTunes)

Embedding YouTube Videos onto Your Blog

• Find a YouTube video on (legal and non-offensive) area of interest
• Click on SHARE then copy EMBED code - right mouse click on highlighted code
• New Post in Blog - make sure you're on the HTML tag
• Right mouse click & Paste then click on COMPOSE tag to make sure video is there
• PUBLISH

WHAT IS A PODCAST?

PODCASTS

Podcasts - Personal On Demand news and information - when you want to watch it. Find 3 areas of interest that have a Podcast and tell me about them via a new post on your Blog. Also - tell me how you think a business could use podcasts.

FACEBOOK

Looking at Facebook & LinkedIn - social networking sites. Facebook is great to connect with friends, find old friends, and keep up-to-date with what everyone is doing. Also a good way to find out what your favourite businesses are up to (and who's having sales when!).
LinkedIn for some professional networking - great way to connect with professional people.
What do you think about "liking" business pages? Can you think of some advantages? Do you think having a Facebook page is a good way to promote a business?
Let me know your thoughts!

Thoughts on Blogs & Twitter

• Is Twitter easy or hard to use?
• What would be an advantage to using Twitter to promote a product?
• A disadvantage to using Twitter?
• Why might you use a Blog to promote a product?
• What might some advantages and disadvantages be?