The Webcast Academy - Collaborative Learning Community for Webcasters: Recent Episodes
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This is my brief audio file introduction. It is great to be on board! - SpEdTeach2
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1
Despite several computer glitches and other related technical challenges, all participants declared that the show was a huge success.
Here is the edited version submitted for your perusal and listening pleasure...Enjoy!!
Please click here for my Webcast Portfolio. My chatlog is below.
Ustream links: Gradcast and Pictures
Categories: * gradcast * Class of 4.1 * webcast portfolio * Gradcast
Show Notes: - Interncast #3
Due to my speaker not being muted, and another pc running the Ustream channel in the same room, there was some amount of feedback.
The Theme of this Interncast could best be described as “Music Fever.”
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 4.1 * Interncast#3 * recording a live show
During the recording of this show, I had several pc issues plus the quality of the phone service of the interviewee, who was in Atlanta, was at times not the greatest. Despite these issues we managed to get the show on the road. Overall, it proved to be very interesting indeed.
Cricket, lovely cricket!!!!!!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Class of 4.1 * sports * cricket
Show Notes - Interview with Shelly-Daly-Ramdyhan
Our special guest in today's interview was Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan, Lawn Tennis Star, Coach, and Co-ordinator, Guyana, South America.
We discussed matters ranging from Shelly's rise to stardom in the tennis arena to her passion for cooking as well as her recent experience as a tourist in Spain and New York.
She expressed her admiration for international tennis stars who motivated and propelled her towards her goals.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * New York City * Intern Assignment * Class of 4.1 * sports * lawn tennis * Wimbledon * ITF * GLTA * UNDP
This is an audio recording of an impromptu conversation I had on Skype along with three other participants. It was simultaneously aired on Ustream.tv.
We briefly discussed topics ranging from website hosting, community development in Brooklyn, poverty reduction in Guyana, South America, as well as a recent church visit to the White House.
Grateful for your questions, comments and/or suggestions.
Links: Ustream.tv: http://u.nu/5qkr3
Categories: * streaming * Intern Assignments * skype conversation * live * Class of 4.1
Here is my introduction.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1 * introduction merle hall
Hello,
I was not satisfied with the quality of the audio of the interviewee, and as a result edited the recording.
Here is the edited version of the conversation submitted for review.
Music used in recording: Duckett - Wired But Disconnected - ccmixter.org/files/duckett/17456
Phusion - I'll B There 4 U - ccmixter.org/files/phusion/653
Categories: * Intern Assignments * audio telephony recording * Class of 4.1
The second interview is with Rick Reo, an Instructional Designer at George Mason University and fellow 4.1 classmate. He's interested in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Open Educational Resources in enhancing education. An interesting discussion, and the audio was better--a little echo in the beginning that Jeff managed to fix!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 4.1 * instructional design
This is the first of two interviews I conducted in October. It took me a while to get the audio up here because I had to do some serious editing in audacity :-). My audio was clear, but in both cases the interviewee's audio was weak.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 4.1 * instructional design
Let me introduce me im a peruvian teacher from Lima Perú and invite you to visit my blog elmundodelaciencia
topics abiut sciences, technology and enviroment
http://elmundodelaciencia-educador23013.blogspot.com
Categories: * Introduction * introduction
Hello everybody
I hope it's not to late to get started and that my technical things are ok. I didn't seem to get the options when I wanted to record in mp3 - maybe this is because I haven't got the beta version.
Looking forward to your comments - as I'm in France, I seem to be sleeping when you're all active and vica versa !!
bye for now
helen
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1 * helen_davies_introduction
This is an introduction lesson. I'm using a Windows XP laptop, a Lexicon 2 channel mixer, a Sennheiser mic on a boom.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1
For the assignment where I had to record a conversation with another person, I chose to interview a good friend of mine, Rob Lee, about how he uses drop.io in his high school music classes.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Skype * Pamela * Class of 4.1 * class 4.1
Hello Everyone
Here is my interview with Vance Stevens. The interview ran 1 hour. There was so much to talk about and I could have listen to Vance for hours.
What I would like to learn is
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How to Edit - I have posted this interview without editing. Once I have learned how to edit I will go back repost the interview
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How to divide the interview into smaller chunks.
Here are the links we talked about in the interview
Categories: * Intern Assignments * webheads * Vance Stevens * Class of 4.1 * mireille massue * adVancEducation Blog * Vances Geekspeek Podcasts * Electronic Village Online 2009
A discussion about assorted Academy tasks and how best to help participants progress further along the journey.
Chat Log Below Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 4.1
This is my introduction for the 4.1 Class of Webcast Academy.
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * podcast * Class of 4.1 * class 4.1
A little bit about me and why I'm doing this.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1
Here is a little conversation between my 4 3/4 yr. old daughter. We watched a You Tube video of Kikko Swimming th English Channel, and then chatted about another great little swimmer. (Recorded using Audio Hijack on a Mac).
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 4.1 * Robert Squires Swimming Assignment Audio Hijack
A little (Call Graph recorded) two-way conversation beween me and my wife on what's for dinner tonight. Very nice I must say. I don't want to reinforce Scottish male stereotypes but I would have probably gone for something a little meatier and potatoier. Anyway, have a nice weekend all.
Categories: * Class of 4.1 * Call Graph * Domestic Bliss * Other Shows
Here is my short and sweet personal intro that is just over a minute in length. I used a Plantronics DSP400 mic to record it.
-rick
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Class of 4.1
Hi, I am an academy newbie, and I am looking forward to getting started with webcasting. I'm based in Missoula, MT, but am originally from Edinburgh in Scotland. Slainte!
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 4.1 * Robert Squires Introduction
I'm an Academy 'oldtimer' who currently lives in Bow, NH, but will be moving to Busan Korea
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 1.1
We did it, finally! After taking the Webcast Academy course, and teaching the course, and webcasting over 90 times Susan, Cheryl are joined by Alice for an evening graduation! We hope you enjoy the gradcast, the chat and the excitement. This is something you all can do. We will be there with you.
Cheryl
We are finally getting this published, posted and will all be together in NYC next week for a graduation bust! Stay tuned, we may have more.Here is the chat for our gradcast.
2008-08-27 Graduation Day!
19:28:46 lparisi -> -EdTechTalk: hi peggy
Categories: * Gradcast
This is my gradcast with Jeff Lebow, Sheila Adams, Peggy George and others. Find chatlog below!
Categories: * Class of 3.2 * Gradcast
This is my third part of Teacher Trek, in which i interviewed Glen Gatin, an acclaimed educator from Manitoba, Canada.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show)
A recording at Wiziq with the participants of an online session for Brazilian educators.
Categories: * Other Shows
Second part of TeacherTrek show with Peggy George
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show)
Even if it's not perfect, it's the best I can do... At least, for now...
Categories: * Intern Assignments
This is my first two-way skype call recording with Sheila. I am really thankful to her for this. Hope you'd like it.
Categories: * Intern Assignments
Webcast Academy Session 3.1.4a
August 08, 2008
Episode 3.1.4a of Webcastacademy. A clip of the audio from Thursday's show, congrats to Carlos, Kim and Linda! Thanks to all who joined via Skype and in the chatroom.
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
Hi this is my first audio for edtechtalk webcasting internship. This is my brief introduction of myself. I am really looking forward to be part of this exciting and nice community, and ofcourse to graduate :)
Categories: * Introduction
I need to learn how to adjust the volume of the remote caller, but i did manage to set all of the preferences right to make the recording! And I just discovered that the bit rate is too high.
Categories: * Intern Assignments
Hello fellow webcasters! I am looking forward to sharing and learning with you.
Categories: * Introduction
although it isnt try #1, more like try 1 million maybe
Categories: * Intern Assignments
It was my first experience and sound is far from being good... I still have to work on that... The system (I don't know why!) doesn't accept more than 16 bits... There is a persistant echo which I can't seem to get rid of... Nevertheless, it's done... The next step is the assignement... we'll see
Categories: * Intern Assignments
Webcast Academy Session 3.1.2a
July 24, 2008Episode 3.1.2a of Webcastacademy. A clip of the audio from Thursday's show. The plan is to have sessions on at two different times each week (Thursday evenings and Sunday daytime in North America) to help facilitate access for WCA Interns. Thanks to all who joined via Skype and in the chatroom.
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
It's my final version ( I hope!) of the introduction. I think I respected all the specifications... At least, I tried...
Categories: * Introduction
My audio introduction for the Class of 3.1. I too am really looking forward to working with each of the interns in the Class of 3.1 and invite interns from previous sections of the Academy to join in the fun, and help us tweak the content and delivery of WCA curricula. NOTE: Background music compliments of the Beastie Boys and ccmixter.org, and can be found @ http://ccmixter.org/files/wired/86
Categories: * Introduction
Thought I'd get the ball rolling for introductions. Look forward to virtually meeting 3.1 interns.
Categories: * Introduction
Check out Getting Started with UStream and comment with any questions you have.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * getting started * ustream * Class of 3.1 * register for an account
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * placeswithpeople peopleandplaces carlaarena criscosta japan culture show webcasting webcastacademy webheadsinaction
Some of the "usual suspects" get together to discuss the "state of the academy."
You can also catch more on WCA at this week's ETBS
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Jason * Jeff * Jose
Conversation with John, Jeff, Derrall, Matt, and Doug about this section of the Webcastacademy and how we approach the "moodle-ization" of course content and how to progress with the Academy.
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Derrall * Doug * John * Jeff * June08 * WCA
We're getting underway with another section of the Academy. We've discussed having meetings at 9:00 PM Thursdays [during the same hour as EdTechBrainstorm]; however, we're interested in having webcasts at times that work for interested interns.
This weekend we're going to have an open house World Date and Time here
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * randy * Derrall * Doug * Matt
Jason Robertshaw and guests, during "Ocean Hour" of Earthcast08. Categories: * earthcast08 * Jason Robertshaw * OceanHour * Other Shows
Here's the audio from Barbara Dieu's "Creating Ripples" presentation to the Braz-Tesol, Goiania Chapter, May 30, 2008.
Bee has shared the slides for her talk here:
http://www.slideshare.net/Bee/ripples1
Categories: * Barbara Dieu * Creating Ripples * Braz-Tesol * Goiania Chapter * Other Shows
Another edition of "Student Tech Talk." Listen to a small group of students talk a little bit about politics and educational technology. This is a group of students that I'm hoping will continue with the world of webcasting as they move into high school next year. If you listen to them I'll think you'll agree that they have some pretty awesome webcasting skills!!
Enjoy!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * students studenttechtalk
First Stop of People and places was Adelaide. We had a pleasant chat with Michael Coghlan about his home town and his travels around the world. A conversation worth listening to. http://peopleandplaces.bloxi.jp/ Categories: * CarlaArena * placeswithpeople * criscosta * Other Shows
Here it is! My Gradcast! A very special Thank You to Laura Vedeen for being my guest, and to all who participated and helped me out along the way! Here is the link to my portfolio!
Please see attached for chat log!
Categories: * webcasting * Webcast_academy * gradcast * Class of 2.4 * teaching online * Gradcast
This is a conversation with three of my students about technology, society and culture. My goal with these student webcasts is to kind of sit back and let the students take over. So they do the intro, the outro, and hopefully moderate the flow of the conversation.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * mattmontagne * youthvoices
We had a nice check-in meeting today to continue our talks about building the Earthbridges Community. The Earthbridges Crew would like to welcome both Sonja Gonzalez and Robin Ellwood to the team! Both Sonja and Robin joined Andreas, Sheila, Mrs, Durff, Joao and myself on the call today. I apologize to the Earthbridges Crew for moving the meeting up two hours. Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, June 8th at 18:00 GMT.
Categories: * earthbridges * Other Shows
Categories: * streaming * broadcasting * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * mp3 * music * culture * Class of 2.3 * academy * Jane * SpiceCN * Chinese * TV * Jiang * La * broadcaster * journalist * china * media * reporter * moderator * actor * radio * asian * anchor * north * american * america * cross * cultrual * jj * spice * new * aasha * Song
Here it is! My third interncast! This file is a recording of a final review session I held for students in my KNR 113 Personal Fitness class at Illinois State University. I did have a couple of students Skype in with their questions, however, the majority of students asked their questions through the chat room. Laura Vedeen, my graduate assistant, assisted as my "co-host." Categories: * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Class of 2.4 * final exam review
Earthcast 2008 Debrief
April 27, 2008
Joined in progress, not great audio quality, no streamer audio, but a recap of an awesome webcastathon, and the conception of a new Worldbridges community, Earthbridges.
Categories: * earthcast08 * Other Shows
We had another "Tech Talk" with a small little student webcasting team that I'm trying to develop. A special shout out to Durff, Scott Meech, JRod (Jose), hfeldman, and James Sigler for listening in and participating in the chat. The student team did a wonderful job, taking both the intro and outro for the show. I was simply there to scaffold the conversation and be the streaming robot. Unfortunately, I didn't archive the conversation! It is too bad, because we really had a nice conversation about jailbreaking the iPhone, portable/cheap computers, and
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interncast * students * techtalk
Here's an interview with Vance Stevens about Abu Dhabi.
He talks about:
Categories: * Intern Assignments * webheads * podcast * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * culture * webheadsinaction * vancestevens * Abu Dhabi * UAE
We're joined by Mrs Durff and a group of 4th grade students from her school. Categories: * MrsDurff earthcast08 4thgraders environment * Other Shows
Hour 20 Earthcast08 contribution from Peta White of the Faculty of Education, at the University of Regina. Peta and her guests bring us news of Earth Day 2008 activities from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Categories: * earthcast08 * Peta White * University of Regina * Faculty of Education * Earth Day 2008 * Other Shows
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * earthcast08 EarthCast08 earthday2008 webcastathon carlaarena
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * earthcast08 EarthCast08 earthday2008 webcastathon carlaarena
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * earthcast08 EarthCast08 earthday2008 webcastathon carlaarena
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * earthcast08 EarthCast08 earthday2008 webcastathon carlaarena
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * earthcast08
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * earthcast08
Robin Ellwood gave a very interesting and passionate account of her Antarctica explorations. Middle school students asked her questions and she talked about her fascinating experience on the waters of Antarctica.
I divided her talk in small parts having in mind classroom use. Teachers might choose to focus on one aspect of Ms. Ellwood's adventures, so here's my little contribution to the inspiring 2008 EarthCast!
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * Antarctica * earthcast08 * robinellwood
Hi Fellow webcasters,
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcastathon * Webcaster * Class of 2.3 * Jane * SpiceCN * Chinese * TV * Jiang * La * broadcaster * journalist * china * radio * the Earth Day * the JJ show * wenzhou
This webcast was for students in my KNR 113 Personal Fitness classes at Illinois State University. I have two sections of this class; one meets face to face and one is totally online.
The current course content deals with nutrition, and students have an individualized diet analysis assignment they are to complete. This webcast was designed to provide students an opportunity to ask general nutrition questions, specific questions regarding this assignment, along with an assignment on their cardiovascular health profile that is also due soon.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * webcastacademy * audio interncast#2 * Class of 2.4 * nutrition
Hi, In this JJ show#2, Mr. Jeff Lebow was the official Guest to talk about the topic of "The cross-cultural dynamics of new media". Thank you very much to the Dean and the participants too. Thank you all!
P.S. Sorry for the echo at the beginning of audio.
Categories: * jeff lebow * webcasting * streaming * broadcasting * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * mp3 * culture * Webcaster * Class of 2.3 * Jane * SpiceCN * new media * Chinese * TV * Jiang * La * journalist * china * media * reporter * moderator * actor * radio * asian * cross-cultural * anchor * traditional
Steps
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Convert the audio file from AUP to WAV or MP3 (using Audacity/Lame/WinLame)
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Transcribe from WAV or MP3 to Text (using WAV-To-TEXT Voice Recognition)
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * streaming * audio * Audacity * recording * blogging * mp3 * blog * lame * Google * voice * shareware * transcribe * wave-to-text * publication * wav * text * blogger * alerts * recognition * transcribing * voicemail * blogcast * blogcasting * videoblog * vblog
Increased rendering quality, but beta stability, for Second Life
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/29/windlight-first-look-viewer-released/
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * second life * SL * First Look * Viewer
ePresence Interactive Media is an Open Source Web Conferencing and Webcasting system that delivers video and synchronized presentation media over the internet using multiple streaming formats for multiple platforms. Freeware from the University of Toronto, Canada
http://epresence.tv/products
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epresence/
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * audio * video * presentation * web * freeware * media * conferencing * multiple * synchronous * epresence * interactive
Just posted my first interncast. I had recorded it before our Feb. vacation. I had trouble getting into Sandbox A beforehand and wondered what I was doing wrong. Lee came to the rescue. Figured I was doing everything right, so switched to B and it worked fine. Thanks for the support Lee!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interncast * Class of 2.4 * Antarctica * Sheila Adams * NH
Interviewed Robin Ellwood, a teacher who will be traveling with a research team to Antarctica again in Nov. 2008. This will be the first in several opportunities to talk with Robin before her trip. We hope we will be able to broadcast from Antarctica too! Stay tuned! Robin's journal is located at www.ryejrhigh.org/ellwood.Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Class of 2.4 * Antarctica * Robin Ellwood * Sheila Adams * Rye * NH
For the global visualization of time zones and clocks on your desktop (freeware):
Desktop Sun Tracker
http://www.herethere.net/dt/
This software displays two versions of the world map, a day, and a night version, and fades between them to show which portions of the world are in daylight, and which aren't. In other words, this is a dynamic wallpaper that updates based on where the sun is relative to the surface of the earth.
Breitling World Time
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * gmt * time * freeware * world * global * desktop * sun * tracker * time zone * convertor * clock * UTC
NATSpectrum
A nice small freeware tool to display live microphone input levels (meaning audio gain and frequency - the starting point for audio quality control in a gain structure), plus a mic volume and mute switch, and a headset volume level switch
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43372
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * microphone * headset * Quality * freeware * volume * monitoring * level * gain * frequency * spectrum * mute * mic * meter
For those thirsting on more detail and background information about Webcasting and Streaming, may I recommend the following titles:
Hands-On Guide To Webcasting, Internet Event and AV Production, Steve Mack & Dan Rayburn, Focal Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80754-6, ISBN-10: 0-240-80754-5
This book is a requirement for the follow-up publication in second edition:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * streaming * internet * event * book * production * media * on-demand * hands-on
Here is the audio for today's class of 2.4.5
Ustream Recording
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
* Class of 2.4
Categories: * webcasting * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.3 * SpiceCN * Chinese * TV * broadcaster * journalist * china * independent films * jane jiang la
I am always looking for ways to help build communities and find ways to communicate. Especially when it comes to connecting parents and schools. So when I happened upon Webcast academy and Edtechtalk I knew that there were some good things going on in this community. I am technically literate and a have a good knowledge of how to use the Internet and related technologies. Thankfully the door was opened and I dove right into a world of screencasts, broadcasts and exciting visionary people to help me out. Despite my skills, some days I felt totally overwhelmed and challenged. I was told it would be like that.
As I set up the Parent Involvement webcast, Parents as Partners, it became very clear that the audience that the web cast would be targeting would need some hand holding. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.4 * parents. parent involvement * parents as partners
Well, I did it! My first interncast! I was so nervous beforehand. I was beginning to wonder what I had gotten myself into. However, all went well, and I now am beginning to believe that I can do this. I am absolutely amazed by technology, and the incredible opportunities that it affords us. I think I was so nervous, because there was the realization that anyone from around the world could listen in. While I realized that there would be in all reality very few (if anyone) listening in, it hit me that with webcasting, the world is really in my backyard. That is so overwhelming, yet so awesome! How fortunate for those of us who educate and learn today! There is literally a world of knowledge at our fingertips!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * webcastacademy * Class of 2.4 * winter exercise
This is an interview that I did yesterday at work. I used the same equipment (Audacity, and desktop usb mic) that many interns employ. I post it here because, it is:
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to be played during an ´athon (albeit FM radio)
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about two very important topics: literacy and homelessness
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the first time I´ve ever interviewed anyone ¨in person¨ for non-print publication
Categories: * Class of 1.1 * homelessness * literacy * marathon * ckut * Gary Williams * Literacy Victoria * Other Shows
This interncast is an interview with Laura Vedeen, an exercise physiology graduate student at Illinois State University. Laura is an Ironman triathlete and avid outdoor runner. While I am a runner also, I find it hard to run outside in these cold central Illinois winters. Thus, I find myself "stuck" on a treadmill indoors. Laura provides helpful information on cold weather running gear that will be sure to keep you warm so you can keep running outside, even when it's really cold!Categories: * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * exercise * winter running gear
Today I had a conversation with a student of mine, Alex, about his experience testing out the school owned Asus eeePC a few weeks ago. During his trial of the PC Alex took the computer between school and home and really put it to the test. He used it during the school day for note taking and he also used it with a small group project where the students used a wiki and a Voki.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * students * eeepc * linux * opensource
Thanks to Matt Montagne, I was able to join in on the live interview with the Pearl Harbor survivor on the USS Oklahoma. This was a "jump right in" opportunity for me and Matt made it very easy for us. Our 8th graders are learning about WWII and the USO, so it was opened up to the students. I also had some interested 7th graders participating. Several adults and both administrators were there.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interncast * Class of 2.4 * Paul Goodyear * USS Oklahoma
This is the recording for the first webcast of Parents as Partners. Matt Montagne and I joined together to interview two parents Cindy Zautcke and Rhoda Cipparone. The topic of the web cast was the impact of online social networking on our children. Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * web cast * parent involvement * students * social networking * internet safety * facebook * growing up online
Hi Everyone-
I wanted to follow up our conversation from last Sunday's intern class where we were kicking around the idea of an Earth Day 2008 Webcastathon. Doug Symmington is joining in the fun and we have a teacher from the UK who is going to participate as well. Ideally it would be great if we could have the entire 24 hours of the GMT day scheduled with moderators from all over the globe!
To sign up, either drop your name in the planning wiki, leave a comment here, or leave a comment at my professional blog where I left a post about this concept.
Cheers!
Matt
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcastathon * Class of 2.4 * earthday
Sonja and I had to do some work on our newsletter so I decided to record it. I had some problems editing with Audacity. I wouldn't let me delete selections. I restarted a couple of times, rebooted and it worked. I removed some of our "thinking time" and cut off several minutes in the end. Categories: * Intern Assignments * telephony recording skype * Class of 2.4 * sheila
The Blogging4Educators team had the big pleasure to talk to James Farmer , currently CEO of the largest education blogging network on the web, Edublogs (http://edublogs.org), and consults for education, media and community organizations.
Categories: * education * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * edublogging * blogging4educators * james_farmer * edublogs * edublogger * Other Shows
I used Ustream for this assignment. I broadcasted and recorded a video stream. As a result you will need to use the link I have provided you at the bottom of this text to view my week 3 assignment.
I used my webcam for one of my video streams.
I used WebcamMax for another one of my video streams.
I used my new usb microphone for one of my audio inputs.
I used the audio from my flash animation as played through the soundcard of my machine for the other audio input.
This was made much harder than it could have been because the machines I have access to in order to do this do not have the horsepower to deal with running WebcamMax and the Audio Repeater software. Because of this I had to switch the audio manually.
Even doing it manually, it appeared that I was not successful because I was hearing clipping from my end while I was streaming. You can even here me say in the recording that I did not think this was working.
However it did work as you can see from the recording that can be found here:
http://ustream.tv/recorded/Dkhz5ZFzk4AWb,wbHSRV,IbOmTem0Ia5
There is some funny stuff at the end of this video stream recording, so it will be worth it to view the entire thing.
When I get a better machine with more horsepower, I will try posting something similar but using the Audio Repeater so that I won't have to manually switch the audio. 'the biggest problem with doing this manually is that you cannot use the microphone and the audio from the screen at the same time, and this may there will be times you will need to hear both at the same time. But this will have to wait for when I get a better machine.
Here is the link one more time, I hope you enjoy it:
http://ustream.tv/recorded/Dkhz5ZFzk4AWb,wbHSRV,IbOmTem0Ia5
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * mclean ustream
On Friday, February 8th, 2008 Sheila, Sonja, Karen and I had the honor of speaking to Paul Goodyear, World War II veteran and survivor on the USS Oklahoma/Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, 1941. This was a wonderful conversation with an amazing man. All-in-all, I think this went very well for our first shot at this.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.4 * paulgoodyear * pearlharbor * wwII
Click here to get your own player.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * blogging * education * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * webheadsinaction * edublogging * edubloggers * WoW2.0 * women of the web 2.0 * writingmatrix * blogging4educators * edublogtalk
So this challenged my patience for sure. Seems like you should be able to use Garageband and save as MP3. I am going to explore that more. I ended up playing the recording I had done during the conversation and capturing it using WireTap Studio (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/). Seems like a cool little program, but the fact that you have to use multiple programs to accomplish the task annoys me. Guess I will record live using WIreTap next time. Lesson Learned!!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * telephony_recording * Class of 2.4
Well, this has been frustrating, so I hope it works this time. Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.4
It took a fair amount of time with the skype lady almost two weeks ago to figure out how to get this to work (see last blog post). Then I procrastinated . . . and went to Educon . . . and found myself scrambling this morning to find someone to talk to.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * telephony * Class of 2.4 * sarahs * week2
Just a quickie conversation with Alice Barr reflecting on our week post-Educon. Categories: * alicebarr * telephony * Intern Assignments * Skype * telephony_recording * Class of 2.4 * sarahs * week2
This recording is edited down from 17 minutes. I scheduled an interview with one of my 11th grade students and used Audio Hijack. Not sure what went wrong, but the output was not mp3 but ma4. That was a problem. I couldn't do anything with it in Audacity. So I converted it to mp3 in iTunes then worked it into a show with a jingle and all in Garage Band. Well.. somehow, by the time I turned it into an mp3 again, it sounded like we were down at the bottom of a well.Categories: * Intern Assignments * blogging * interview * blog * Class of 2.4 * student * students
Well, this assignment took me some time. I spent two entire days trying to figure out why I couldn't record what I was hearing on the skype call. My voice was going through loud and clear, but their's was not. Jose helped me out tremendously Saturday night. Thanks, Jose! My only problem, though, is that while I can now record both ends of the call, the other end is very faint. I have tried adjusting all my settings, and still no luck! I welcome any ideas or input! Categories: * Webcast_academy * Intern Assignments * Skype * telephony_recording * Class of 2.4
I had a good time with this one. I decided to be both sides of the skype call.
I have a Skype Out account so I used that to call my regular phone.
I then answered the regular phone and alternated between the two phones using two different voices. I used the mute buttons to make sure there was no bleeding.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Skype * Class of 2.4
Try using an Amplifier with anEqualizer (built-in one) to boost the energy of some of the audio bands. Many are like guitar amplifiers (with a MIDI input for instruments), but look for softwares that have a Microphone input, like this one:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * Quality * Class of 2.4 * freeware * real-time * Amplifier * Equalizer
Try using a Graphic Equalizer (a 7 or 10 band one) to boost the energy of some of the audio bands (freeware).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_equalizer
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * Quality * Class of 2.4 * freeware * Graphic Equalizer * spectrum analyzer * real-time
I hope you enjoy this.
My guess is that it will be different from anything submitted by anyone else.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.4
This is a two way recording of a Skype to Skypeout conversation conducted with a parent, Rhoda Cipparone from Niagara Falls Ontario. The SkypeOut made it difficult to keep sound levels the same. Recording the Skype call was easy using nicecast and my MacBook Pro. Moderating and good interview style is very much a work in progress. Categories: * Intern Assignments * Mac Nicecast * Class of 2.4 * parents
Thanks to Doug for taking the time to do a recording with me on Sunday. It was a fairly random, un-directed conversation and I wasn't going to use it as my project sample, but it turned out pretty nicely. Doug has a GREAT quote at the end of the recording! Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.4 * skypecall
Do you need a master administration tool for Windows volume control?
ZVolume Home 2006 is a nice, powerful replacement to the standard Windows volume and mute control (freeware).
It can be vastly customized, including changing its look using skins. It supports hotkeys and command-line parameters as well as all other functions the standard Windows volume control supports.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming * audio * recording * windows * freeware * volume * control * mute
Do you need a software tool for the administration of ID3 tags?
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * software * ID3 * tag * freeware * administration * tool
Do you need some sound files for adding background music?
Google Directory
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * sound * music * file * directory * background
Listen in to Lee Baber and Derrall's webcast audio tutorial explaining how to set- up your Mac for broadcasting and recording using Nicecast, Skype, and Sound Preferences. Both usb headsets and usb mics are addressed.
Categories: * nicecast * mac * lee_baber * Skype * Class of 2.4 * Derrall * Sound Preferences * Other Shows
Well, there is a time for everything. I'm starting to blog and still can't believe it! I never thought I would put up my very own thoughts in cyber space, but since this is the assignement...
Our end-of semester A has finally arrived so I have more time to fiddle with the audio specs' etc.. and I enjoyed very much learning to use Audacity and editing a file with a mix of background music and introducing myself!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.4 * audio tasks
This will be a short blog post as I have completed Week 1 assignments and am now looking towards week 2! Just as well, as the meeting is in 2 hours!
No problems so far, however I have noticed a lot of activity on the group Skype chat and was wondering if I was really being left behind....maybe everyone is well into week 2 by now. Luckily I watched the screencast on how to manage a group Skype chat so I now know how to not have the chat window popping up during class all the time!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.4
I've done a lot of listening this week. Stayed up much later than I should have to listen to some webcasts. I've gotten something out of all of them but I find it hard to digest it all. I really appreciated the time with Lee and Derrall with the Mac interface on Monday, Jan 21st. They gave us a basic run down of the software, explaining the purposes and settings. It was very helpful. Thanks so much!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.4
Is there a offline way for the playback of Jing screencasting files?
After creating or downloading a Jing screencast, save the .swf flash file to your HD.
Then download and install the Total Video Converter.
http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm
This installation is actually comprized of two software packages.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * video * screencasting * flash * JING * swf * offline * Total Video Player * Total Video Converter * playback * freeware
I'm Jess, I teach Chinese in a small country school in Victoria, Australia. I'd love to create a webcast show with my students, and maybe Jo McLeay will have me on her show too! Looking forward to it. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.4
I am now starting to believe that I can do this! I was so excited today after I posted my first audio recording using Audacity. I like how this academy is taking me in managable steps toward my goal of becoming a webcaster. I find that I am a bit intimidated, not quite sure what to do, but after spending some time navigating around the website, I find the answers I need in order to do what I need to do. I am very grateful knowing there is so much support out there, helping me to get to my goals. It still just amazes me that we are a group of people all with an intTaxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * audio * Class of 2.4
I was traveling yesterday, had been in Kansas City to watch my daughter perform, so did not return home in time to participate live. I am listening to the recording of the session. Learning lots, but discovered I hate just listening and not participating. So, hopefully life does not get in the way too often. Ok, I know I am dreaming, but my intentions are good.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * learning * tools * Mac users * Class of 2.4 * thoughts * invite * Ning * sharing
Well week one and already behind. Not a good start needless to say. Anyway, I am using a MacBook Pro and thought GargageBand would be best bet, but decided to try Audacity since that is what most of my own students will attempt to use. I am really kooking forward to suggestions for improvement. Categories: * Introduction * Audacity * recording * mp3 * introductions * Class of 2.4 * Class 2.4 * online recording
Finally feeling like I "get" what I'm supposed to do with this! A lot of that has to do with the first class (but missed the second... have to go back and listen to that!) and reading around on the website. This is a great community! Really liking that I can listen to other people's projects/ideas/intros and that we'll continue to work together. Great collaborative environment that I hope to try to re-create in part at my school.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.4 * class of 2.4 * streaming audio * newbie
This is the audio recording of the "live" class for the first session of Webcast Academy's Class of 2.4. We lost about 30 seconds of audio when Skype crashed....
Week#1 Topics & Agenda
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.4 * webcastacademy 2.4
I am using a Mac for this session and am fairly new at it. After some confusion with the Lame file I needed for converting to MP3in Audacity, I finally got it. I had to go back and load Audacity the beta version and when I tried to convert, a pop up box said I didn't have the Lame file and did I wish to download. It also provided the link for me. Too cool. These computers just get smarter and smarter. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.4
Here is upload number 2. I forgot to change the rate when exporting to MP3. So, here goes again. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.4
After some frustration with what I thought were setting issues, Lee B helped me out and it turns out my dual 1/8th inch plug headset wasn't going to work for this. I went to the local Radio Shack and ended up with a Logitec 250 USB headset, and things went MUCH smoother! I figured I'd post the settings here that worked, since they are a little different from Lee's screencast since she's using other software.
(Using a Logitec 250 USB headset)
System prefs : Sound : output and input set to Logitec USB
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * mac * telephony * recording * settings * 2.4 * Class of 2.4 * audiohijack
Hi all! Sonja and I worked together on this. She let me use her Snowball Microphone.
I'm a 7th grade science teacher in New Hampshire, USA.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.4
Second time around, so this is a new audio introduction. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.4
Thanks for the feedback on the original posted intro. This one is the same content, but I re-exported at a 64KB bitrate. Thanks to those of you who listened, and I hope that others find it interesting!
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Class of 2.4 * sonja * gonzalez
Special guest Karen Ellis from the National Children's Folksong Repository will join EVO Musicbridges in their first live webcast.
Well - last night was a challenge, but thanks to Derrallg, Sharonp and others I think I have solved my problems. So for other Leopard users.
The version of Nicecast I am using is: 1.9d1 I have my Source set up as Application: Skype It automatically hijacks when I broadcast.
I was getting a high-pitched feedback on the line - lowering the output volume in my system preferences seemed to fix that.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3 * leopard nicecast
I am feeling little challenged - something that I am sure will be a consistent phenomena for the next 6 weeks. Learning the concept in "windowspeak" and then translating to "macspeak is a bit of a learning curve. I found the method to set a bit rate of 64 for the Mac version of Audacity is established in Audacity preferences> File Format> MP3 Export Setup then the drop down menu> 64.
If I have posted this entry twice - it maybe the beginning of that head knocking thing I heard about.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * mac * Audacity * windows * Class of 2.4 * bit rate
winLAME is the external stand-alone version of LAME, which is usually inserted into Audacity in order to enable mp3 file conversion to Academy's requirements. Some people have trouble building LAME into Audacity. No sweat now, use winLAME (freeware):
winLAME website http://winlame.sourceforge.net/
Just process through the wizard (Next >>) like this in order to get to the Bitrate setting box:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * mp3 * lame * bitrate * winlame * 64 bit * file conversion * file * conversion * freeware
This is my introduction audio cast and I am anxious to get feedback on how to improve the sound and voice quality. Categories: * Introduction * audio * teachers * collaboration * Class of 2.4 * web cast * parents * parent involvement * online communications
Hello, This is Jiang La, a TV journalist from Wenzhou China. Nice to see you all both new & old fellow interns at the webcast academy ;) I am looking forward to doing some real interview over here very soon.
Categories: * Introduction * telephony * Audacity * recording * editing * mp3 * test * CALL * Class of 2.3 * both_ends
I do feel a feeling of satisfaction at having uploaded my audio. Content leaves a lot to be desired I think and it could have been better edited, but I haven't always had success with audacity and now I think I've learnt something which might make it easier for next time. So thanks for the experience. I know I still got a lot to learn
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * Class of 2.4 * jomcleay
Participating in the orientation session for Class 2.4 was extremely rewarding. I found joining the Skype cast some what challenging because I am using a Mac and the Screencast instructions were created using Windows. I felt a sense of relief joining a group of people not only with similar goals but also starting out at the beginning of the process of online communications. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * flash player * WordPress * Class of 2.4
Below you'll find my audio introduction. Nice 'meeting' all of you at the open house today. Again, great job to all moderators for managing the talk. I'm looking forward to this experience.
Cheers!
Matt
Oh yea...and GO PACK GO!
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Class of 2.4 * mattmontagne
This is an audio recording of the "Open House" for the Class of 2.4. Thanks to all who participated!
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * openhouse * Class of 2.4
It was an interesting intro session for the WCA class of 2.4 this afternoon (for me, for others much earlier in the morning!). The noodling about and asking questions was a great way to get a sense of where everyone is with webcasting - and that we all have so much to learn, even those who have done this before. The changing pieces of technology and the ways in which they interact when combined will no doubt continue to make webcasting a never-ending learning process.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * 2.4 * Class of 2.4 * sarahs * Maine
I can not believe that one class has already finished and another class is about to start, since I first started my Webcast Academy Internship! I have set myself a definite goal for 2008. I WILL graduate from the Webcast Academy this year. I currently have 2 full 1 hour shows under my belt and after two or three more, I feel that I will be ready to do my Gradcast show.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * gradcast * class 2.2 * goal
This is the third interncast by Pam Shoemaker, Dennis Oliver, and Derrall Garrison (PD2). It was broadcast on December 23, 2007 as part of the Winter Soltice Webcastathon. The topic: Intercultural Insights Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.3
This interncast was broadcast on December 13th. This is our second interncast and was on the topic of "Cool Tools." Dennis was going to cover Wiziq. Derrall discussed Voicethread and Pam discussed Animoto. Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.3
The Worldbridges Solstice Webcastathon
December 21-23
| Julie Schumacher Gradcast Audio & Chat Log here | Teachers are Talking Audio & Chat Log coming soon | | Gingerbread Stories
Full size video | Comp 8 Discussion w/ Alan Levine on the future of schools
Full size video | | Crib Chronicles Audio Here | EdTechTalk Community Assembly Audio & Chat Log here | | Simulate Show ' Full Size Video | Webheadcast/EVO Preview '
Audio & Chat Log Here |
EdTechYearly
Audio & VoiceThread Here
Links to Second Life URL locations for quick teleporting, registration etc...
How to find the Worldbridges Webcastatorium and other cool locations
Recommendations for Second Life Software Client Settings: Preferences
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * preferences * Class of 2.3 * second life * SLurl * web * address * book * link * url * registration * teleport * client * webcastatorium
This is it! A big “Thank you!” to all of you who helped me along my webcasting journey. I look forward to all the learning yet to come! Here is a link to my portfolio!
Chat log follows:
Categories: * Class of 2.2 * gradcast * class 2.2 * Gradcast
This looks like a new breed of webcasting opportunities:
http://www.programmableweb.com/
Audio Mashups http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups/directory/1?q=audio
Video Mashups http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups/directory/1?q=video
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * audio * video * e-learning * second life * elearning * voice * mashup * webcam
I didn't see an English language version (freeware)
http://portableapps.com/node/10021
James/Eurominuteman
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Skype * portable * german * freeware
Stereo Mix - a reality. I’m talking about the sound card option that had been removed on some Dell laptops and desktops purchased during the past few years. The option was not available, on purpose. This week, Dell released a new driver where the Stereo Mix option is a choice. My laptop is now letting me successfully record both sides of a Skype conversation. I really did not believe it was going to work – but it does! Here are my steps:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * sound card * Class of 1.2 * telephony_recording * sigmatel
Categories: * education * efl * podcast * graduation * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * elearning * Other Shows
Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind (freeware).
http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable
James/Eurominuteman
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * portable * flash * usb * drive * edit * record * freeware
This interncast was broadcasted on November 30, 2007. The hosts discuss Second Life from the point of view of newbies.Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.3 * interncast secondlife pamshoemaker derrallgarrison dennisoliver
*Meeting 2.3.6
Resource Development, 2.4 Prep, and Solstice Planning
December 2, 2007
Solstice Webcastathon Sign up page***Interns (feel free to edit that page to add your webcasts)
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.3
Share your events with an individual, a group, or the whole world
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * schedules * interncast * meetings * schedule * show * gmt * calendar * gradcast * event * publisher * guide * time * date * RSS * reader * Google * conference * appointment
I'm back, finally. Things got extremely busy and I had to take a step back. Hopefully I can keep up with class 2.4 when it starts and finally complete the activities (or at least more than I have so far.) I have had some time to play with Audacity, but I still have a lot to learn. I haven't even started trying to record both ends of a phone call let alone moving on from there.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
If you would like participate in the class of 2.4 you can apply and send us a note to let us know you're interested. Once you've done so, please post a short introduction below.
The Class of 2.4 begins with an Open House on Jan. 13, 1800GMT First class Jan 20, 1900GMTForums: * Academy Participation & Development
On Wednesday November 7, 2007 I interviewed fellow Sacramento educator, Larry Ferlazzo. We discussed some of the organizing support for technology projects. Larry shared his experiences getting his school computer lab, and home computer project started. Here are the highlights:
Categories: * Class of 2.2 * AliceMercer * alicesrestaurant * advocacy * larryferlazzo * techpolicy * Other Shows
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Webcast Academy Meeting 2.3.5
Using and Bridging Different Webcast Environments
Sunday November 18, 2007
Chat Log
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.3
Today's new version of Skype fits with the Ustream activites here at the Academy:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Skype * video * windows * logitech * ustream * High * Quality * 3.6 * webcam * laptop * notebook
. . . An attempt to restore a kind of balance.
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| Every time I thought about my abortive attempt to record the Skype group conversation with Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel, and a number of students from Carla's online class "Listening Plus," I felt bad— mostly because I didn't want the students to feel that what they had heard was typical of international communication via Skype—and I felt worse because several of them said that they were excited to be able to talk with "a real American."Hoping to turn a colossal lemon into some lemonade, I transcribed what I said in the original Skype recording and re-recorded it.If you click HERE, you'll be taken to a webpage with a written introduction, then a link to the actual re-recording.D. O. | |
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * skype audio problems troubleshooting nicecast * Class of 2.3 * reflection_Skype_recording
Video Archive of our experimentation with Ustream
November 12, 2007
Software used: Webcam Max
Chat Log Below
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * video * ustream
I found a list of interesting freeware software for and around sound cards. Who will help evaluating the best ones?
http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?words=%28%2Bsound+%2Bcard%29&typ...
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * software * sound * card * open * source * evaluation * freeware
Webcast Academy Session 2.3.4
Show Management and Post Show Audio Editing
Sunday November 11, 2007
Chat Log Below
12:50:10 JoseR : Hi all!
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * audio_editing * show management * Class of 2.3
Oy, vey ist mir . . . .
This past week, Carla Arena,
Erika Cruvinel, and I had
a Skype conversation with
Carla's online students in
Brasília, Brazil. Carla set up
the streaming, and my job
was to record the session.
We did a test about 20 minutes
before the session began, and
everything seemed to be
working OK. I was able to
record everything, but when
I checked it later, the results were . . . not stellar.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.3 * Skypecast_recording * reflection_problems_audio_logistics
also see
Screencast! Nicecast Set-up for Mac and USB headsets
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * mac * Webcast_academy * lee_baber * book_of_webcasting * USB mic
RoMac Sound Card Management allows you set up each of your programs that use a sound with its own individual levels for a sound card, and then launch the program. When you quit the selected program, the RoMac Sound Card Management utility will return all the sound card levels back to normal. It works also for Windows Vista (freeware).
Freeware/Donation http://www.romacsoftware.com/SoundManagement.htm
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * software * sound * windows * sound card * xp * 2.3 * Class of 2.3 * card * setting * manager * Vista * 2.4 * freeware
Are you fed up with carefully setting the audio mixer on your Windows computer only to have the settings changed by another application or when you reboot? Do you need to store and recall different sets of mixer settings quickly and easily?
Then QuickMix is for you (freeware). http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * software * sound * Class of 2.3 * card * setting * QuickMix * Windows XP * freeware
This is a a short clip of an enjoyable discussion I had with Durff.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3 * webcast_academy_2.3 pamshoemaker
These specifications beat Realtek integrated motherboard sound cards using 16 bit:
http://www.pricewatch.com/sound_cards/x-fi.htm
Prices begin at US$ 47.50 on today's listing.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * sound * realtek * card * creative * 24 * bit * X-Fi * price * 7.1
Academy Meeting 2.3.3b
Basic Streaming Part 2
November 4, 2007Chat Log Below
Categories: * streaming * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.3
I used the blog notes from Cathy Evanoff (?) and found the download for Dell computers Sigma Tel sound card. I tried the download and still couldn't get it to work. I tried again Sun. morning-checking & verifying all of the settings everyone had said.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
I guess I'm graduate number 4. This was a disaster, taking a half hour to get the audio working, only to find out (thanks, Jeff) that I forgot to start simplecast. Sigh. But it's done. I graduated and am ready to move on, continuing to wreak havoc where ever I go. Hee Hee. Gotta love webcasting! Categories: * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.1 * Lisa Parisi * gradcast * Gradcast
This is a recording of another phone conversation—but this time
it's with fellow W.A. intern Pam Shoemaker, not the Skype Lady.
I again used Nicecast and Audio Hijack Pro (both Mac apps),
plus the Mac version of Audacity, anddid a lot more editing in
this one.
Categories: * nicecast
* Webcast_academy
* Intern Assignments
* Audacity
* Class of 2.3
* Audio_Hijack_Pro
* Telephony_Recording_(Skype)
Check out the new Screencast ..or .. MacCast for Nicecast Headset Set-up!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * lee_baber
This is the first of two Week 2 projects involving recording and editing
a 2-way phone conversation. I used Nicecast, Audio Hijack Pro, and
Audacity. I'm not totally satisfied with the results, but I'm pleased
that I figured out the settings for Nicecast.
Categories: * nicecast
* Webcast_academy
* Intern Assignments
* Class of 2.3
* Skype_Recording_(Mac)
* Audio_Hijack_Pro
* Audacity_(Mac)
No editing done in Audacity. All the fun was doing the streaming this week. I should have tried to hijack the real audio feed as well, but I didn't think about it until later. I'm still having difficulties making sure I have the id tags correct. I opened the mp3 in Audacity and opened changed info in the metadata editor and exported the mp3, but still when I open the file in itunes I see the Nicecast title/tag.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3
Note: Make sure to follow Lee Barber's screencast
for proper Nicecast settings for headphones and ignore mine. Watch mine if you want to see the overall process.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming * nicecast * mac * Class of 2.3
I have summarized some resources about sound card requirements on my course notes 2.3 metalist:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf5_214gjr99k
After assessing my existing hardware and looking at some blog entries, I noticed that this issue has not
received much attention, even though the sound card is the central workhorse in webcasting.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * hardware * sound * sound card * realtek * 2.3 * Class of 2.3 * configuration * card * requirements * creative * 16 * 24 * bit * X-Fi * 2.4 * blaster
I ran out on my lunch hour today to get a new headset microphone. I went with the Altec Lansing USB & analog. I thought it would work better than my Logitech desktop microphone. However, I never did get it to work... Thinking back on it now, I wonder if there was a setting in my Control Panel that I needed to change. Anyhow, I switched back to my desktop usb microphone.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming
The Plugging Continues . . . .As I said in the meeting on 2007-10-28, I'm limping along with
my two-way telephony recording. I've tried it a number of times
with both Nicecast and Audio Hijack Pro on my Mac, but the
results have not been acceptable; although I read through two
tutorials, I think I must have made a basic error in configuration.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.3 * Meeting_2.3.3 * reflection_audio_telephony
Sorry I can't upload Freddy Mercury singing,
1. I've spent (wasted?) hours playing around with two micros, Logitech USB and non-USB Typhoon. Typhoon sounds great.
I've changed all the variables ion various permutations , but have nothing very final to report.
2. I decided to delete and reinstall Simple Cast and VAC. That was a MISTAKE! New versions do not work at all, and throw up
messages (in German, no point in screenshots) :
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * SimpleCast * Microphones * VAC * error_ * Class of 2.3
Hi, Finally, I have it. LOL Categories: * Introduction * introduction * webcast * broadcast * Class of 2.3 * Jane * SpiceCN * Chinese * TV * Jiang * La
It's Official Folks! There are now two graduates in the family. Please join me in congratulating our Founder Jeff Lebow. So Jeff, now that you have graduated where are you going?....... Did I hear Disneyland? Next time your are in Southern California be my guest. I bet Jdub can join us. :-) Taxonomy upgrade extras: * jeff lebow * graduation
Academy Meeting 2.3.3
Basic Streaming
October 28, 2007
Topic Page & Meeting Agenda
Chat Log Below
Categories: * streaming * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.3
Revised URL for Foodbridges 2 recording (mp3)
mp3 Foodbridges 2
Thanks for pointing this out, Dennis "Phoenix" Oliver. I see the mistake. I altered the URL here, in this text box, and not by pressing the link button.
Just clicked from this page (above) and it worked.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * mp3 * foodbridges
Okay, I think I finally got this after three days of installing, uninstalling, reconfiguring, recording, recording, recording....you get the picture. Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3 * deborah * goodman
This is an identical recording to Jim's So you don't need to listen to both.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3
Susan and I won't be able to join you on Sunday, October 28. Here is our Skype call recording. We talked about our experience using Audacity, Audio Repeater, and Skype. Today was a good day!Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3
Thanks to Jose's video I was able to record a sample conversation with the Skype lady. I'm going to document everything here for future reference:
Properties for playback and recording were both set to C-media wave device.
Audio repeater settings: in- headset mic out- C-media wave device
Audacity preferences were both C-media
Skype options were both C-media
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
I am not sure which setting is off- I start audio repeater and hear it on my computer speakers not my headset. When I change settings to hear in my headset nothing records. What am I doing wrong? I have listened and viewed all information on webcastacademy's site. It IS frustrating. I have been working on this for the past 3 days. I do get a recording when the Skype lady talks via the microphone. When I mute the microphone I do not get any sound from the Skype lady=( I have played with different settings. Please help!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
I have spent about 4 hours trying to get a recording from the Skype test call lady recorded.
I have succeeded in getting better sound on Audacity.
Oh and I am using Vista. My sticking point seems to be what do I need to have for the recording in on Audacity.
I think I have tried every setting and I can't get sounds off of Skype recorded.
I have looked everywhere for info.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3 * Audacity & audio repeater UGH
I think I have the correct path:
1. Set up Nicecast so it joins the Skype feed with the usb headphone mike feed,
2. Set up Audio hijack pro to record, installed hijack plugin so I don't have to restart Skype, and recorded call
3. Opened in Audacity (1.25 instead of 1.33 because of crashing problem), export as mp3 with bitrate set to 64.
- Note had to re-export mp3 in audacity 1.33 in order to have the sampling rate be 44khz, 1.25 seems to export a stereo mix at 44khz and makes it 22khz or incompatible with Flash player.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * 2.3 * Class of 2.3
I'll find out if there is a special place to put links, but here is where the Audacity recording of last night's Foodbridges 2 webcast is:
http://www.dennisnewson.de/FB2djn2610.mp3
The recording is OK, but the voices have an echo quality as if we were all sitting in caves. What could that be? What settings should be checked?
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3 * Audacity recording
I have tried to follow the screencast directions and cannot get Audacity to record both my voice and the Skype lady. It will record her voice but not mine. The screenshots on the screencasts are not similar to my settings. Maybe our versions are different. I'm quitting for the night. Maybe a good nights rest and starting fresh again tomorrow, I'll be more successful. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
Okay, here goes again. This is the third submission. Maybe I'll have it right this time. Who knows. :) Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.3 * deborah * goodman * inroduction
It may not be immediately obvious that you have to click on Audacity setting and Volume setting to see the screenshots.
Audacity settings - stereo mix, note volume of micro
Volume settings - micro as high as possible (Too high?)
Dennis
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * two-ended-recording
07-10-2
(Assignment 2, continued)
I'm not yet prepared to record
a two-way phone conversation,
but a call is in being set up for
this afternoon, so I've got
to review settings more
thoroughly this morning—and
get ready to participate in the "FoodBridges" show in less than 5.5 hours. This
show involves Carla Arena, Illya Arnet-Clark, Cristina Costa, Erika Cruvinel,
Dennis Newson, and me. In it, I talk, but I don't yet record or try to "kick the
stream"; I'll be doing that eventually, though.
This afternoon, I'm taking the easier (for me) option: using Nicecast on my Mac,
not Virtual Audio Cable (the mysteries for which are still a kind of Gordian Knot
from my point of view.
Once I make it through the "FoodBridges" show and the phone recording, I'll start trying to untangle VAC in earnest—and to remedy problems I'll likely encounter
using Nicecast.
D. O.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * reflections * Class of 2.3 * streaming_software * telephone/Skype_recording
Jeff asked me to post screenshots of my basic Audacity settings. Apologies for the naff images. If I knew how to do them better - getting rid of background for example - I would.
Micro setting plus stereo
Other Audacity settings
Mmm. Looks like I've got to upload screenshots to my server before they can be downloaded and inserted here. Tell me if I am wrong about that....What else is possible....OK, I'll give a link....Something tells me it cannot be this complicated..... Next post will contain the images.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * Class of 2.3 * both_ends * audio_repeater
I've been asking on class of 2.3 Skype chat for a couple of days for the new passwords for streaming, but all the guys and guyesses are too shy to 'phone me and let me know.
Anyone?
Skype knows me as:
osnacantab
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming passwords
Well, I'll be...... I moved for a reference, and lost what I had written here. Again.....
Jeff the Boss has suggested I describe how I seem to have made a reasonable recording of a two-ended conversation without using the audio repeater.
My vital statistics are:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3 * recording_two_sided_conversation * audio-repeater
So, I've downloaded VAC and I've watched the screencast on how to set everything up AND IT'S NOT WORKING! There are too many places to set audio preferences (Skype, Audacity, Windows, Audio Repeater) and I think this is why I can't get both me and the Skype lady to record in Audacity.
I'm in the process of downloading Jing so I can demonstrate all of my settings but, unfortunately, I'm going to run out of time today to do this. Better luck Saturday.
I consider myself pretty tech savvy and I have to admit I'm really frustrated right now.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
I tried to talk my daughter into letting me call her on Skype for the Week #2 assignment but she was not excited about it.
Can I talk anyone else into being a volunteer? It would have to be on Sat as school is crazy the next 3 days-Conferences-12 hour days etc.
Thanks for your help.
Diane from Oregon
2007-10-23: The puzzle has a lot more pieces now,
and I'm trying to figure them out. For the telephony
assignment, I'll probably go the Mac route first and
use Nicecast.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * reflections * Class of 2.3 * telephone_recording
I did it! I fooled around most the day yesterday with horrible results. The person on the other end of the Skype call sounded like she was in the middle of a long metal tube. Today, I opened Audacity and realized that I missed a setting... I forgot to change the drop-down box to "Wave Out Mix." Once I switched it, it worked! I decided to add some music to see if I could do it. The music does not go with the recording at all, but I think I was successful in completing the assignment! Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.3 * webcast_academy_2.3 pamshoemaker
Today's Online Meeting
The meeting today was informative and fun.
A sense of camaraderie also developed,
particularly when we were discussing personal
interests and backgrounds:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * reflection * Class of 2.3 * group communication
Webcast Academy Meeting 2.3.2
Recording Both Ends of a Telephony Call
October 21, 2007
**Week#2 Curriculum Page
Chat Log Below**
Categories: * telephony * Webcast Academy Meeting * recording * Class of 2.3
Here is the final version of the second broadcast of Teacher Talk, with Lisa Parisi, Susan van Gelder, and Cheryl Lykowski. Our guest was Colleen King, creator of Math Playground.
This was an historical show, due to the fact that, while we were streaming audio, we also streamed video through UStream. So our Teacher Talk Video Studio showed streams of Lisa Parisi, Susan van Gelder and Colleen King. It also had the chat running and a Skype call going with the three mentioned and Cheryl Lykowski.
While there was a lot to combining all the facets of this show, it was great fun and well worth the effort. Thanks to Jeff Lebow for all his encouragement and help getting up and running. And thanks also, Jeff, for recording the video stream.
Click To Play Categories: * jeff lebow * Class of 2.2 * Lisa Parisi * webcast academy 2.2 * Teacher Talk * Susan van Gelder * Cheryl Lykowski * Colleen King * Other Shows
Please go to this book page for help with Mac set up in Skype, Mac System Preferences, and Nicecast.
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/948
Or contact me with any Mac questions. ~Lee
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * mac * mac_setup
I forgot to mention that TRMS is in Plaistow, NH Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.3
I think I finished the assignment for this week. I've changed my original idea for what I wanted to webcast and record. There was an article in the San Jose Mercury on the San Andreas Fault and some important new discoveries. I have a student whose mom works at Stanford and I hope to arrange a set of webcasts with someone from the SAFOD project. We'll see what happens.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
What's that old saying? "Life is what happens while your busy making plans" or something like that. That was pretty much my week. I really did have good intentions about spending more time on the Webcast Academy website. But then life got in the way. Hopefully next week will be more settled around the Dornberg household.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
Recording My Audio Intro (2007-10-19)
My hardware (desktop iMac, USB desktop mic, USB mic + earphones) was OK. So was Audacity. I'd installed Audio Hijack Pro earlier and I've had iTunes installed for some time. I thought about using GarageBand, but when I tried it, I couldn't find intro and exit music that I liked. Creating the audio intro took longer than I'd expected, but I enjoyed it. I'm not satisfied with the results, but the intro is OK, I think.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * basic audio editing * audio set-up * Class of 2.3
So, who is that guy who's always nagging about audio specifications, ID3 Tags, and audio quality?
* Class of 1.1 Intro
* Webcaster Portfolio
* My Gradcast (August 2007)
Categories: * Introduction * jefflebow * Class of 2.3
D. Oliver's Audio Intro: 2007-10-19 Categories: * Introduction * Webcast_academy * audio * Class of 2.3 * Dennis Oliver * Intern Assignment
October 19, 2007 Audio introduction using Audacity Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.3
Hi everyone, my name is Cindy Phthisic. I'm an instructional technologist in Northeastern NC. I'm a returning Webcast Academy participant from 2.2.1. Since the last class I've been chasing my boys from ball game to ball game and haven't had a chance to really test what I learned. I'm ready to bite the bullet and move forward.
I've been hooked on World Bridges Edtech Talk channel since March of 2007. It's been a very rewarding experience. I've learned so much from all of you!
"See" you in class.
I have completed the first week's assignments and feel very good about what I've done so far. Audacity is great! I recorded my voice about 20 times before I was somewhat satisfied. The first recording had a million "ums" in it. I will keep working on this. I'd like to thank Webcast Academy for the screencasts as they have been extremely helpful. Looking forward to future assignments and getting to know all of you.
Hi Everyone, Just practicing posting of audio. A short intro and a bit about me.
Jose Rodriguez, Co-Facilitator of Webcast Academy Session 2.3
Categories: * Introduction * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.3
This is fun! I just listened to the audio from Sunday's meeting. I am impressed that many interns from past classes continue to participate and help out. I heard about a program for desktop sharing, but am not sure what it was called. Yugma? Ukla? ....I didn't write it down. Anyhow, I look forward to trying that out sometime. I love the fact that people are coming together from all over the world to learn together. I guess I'm ready to download my virtual audio cables and prepare for week 2!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * reflections * Class of 2.3
2007-10-14: Class of 2.3 Webcasts
The Ride Begins
I first became interested in the Webcast Academy over
a year ago and registered at that time--but I didn't get
involved because just after I registered, I had time
crunches with other commitments. Now, however,
I'm in . . . and looking forward to what I can learn.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * reflections * Class of 2.3 * Webcasting Academy
Many of you have come to Webcast Academy because of your interest in learning how to use new tools. For those that participated in our meetings this past Sunday, October 14th you saw webcasting in action. We had an text chatroom, a live stream, and a skype conference. Being able to participate in these environments is the first step in learning how to webcast. So, for those of you that are new to all of this; I invite you to participate in webcasts offered here at the Webcast Academy. You'll see event schedule on block on right side of Main Page. I would also invite you to participate in the Webcasts at Edtechtalk Well of enough of that for now, catch y'all live soon.
Jose Rodriguez, 3rd Grade Teacher and Adult ESL It's Elementary Webcast
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * participation * webcasts * Class of 2.3 * Edtechtalk.
This is my audio introduction to the webcast academy.
Categories: * Introduction * webcast_academy_2.3 pamshoemaker
It was exciting to participate in the first session of 2.3, while I was frustrated with my pc problem at the time. But it was so fun to join in live streaming anyway as a learner :) I really enjoy this worldbridge that helps me to connect with people from other side online. Now I am working on my audio ntroduction like another intern has mentioned in his blog.
SpiceCN/Jane Jiang
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introduction * Class of 2.3 * Jane * SpiceCN * Impression
Webcast Academy 2.3.1a
October 14, 2007
Agenda Here
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.3 * site orientation * audio specification
Webcast Academy 2.3 begins tomorrow. I'm excited! I have posted my introduction, am working on my audio introduction and have been looking over the screencasts for Week 1s Assignment. The screencasts have been very helpful. However, I am having a problem converting my audio from my digital voice recorder to an acceptable format so that I can insert it in Audacity. I will keep working at it.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
Hello fellow webcasters. I am Cheryl Lykowski and I am a returning intern, originally from class 2.2. I am a fifth grade teacher in Michigan and I am working on my thesis research project, International Collaboration. I am co-hosting a Webcast show, Teacher Talk, with friends and fellow interns, Lisa Parisi and Susan vanGelder. Our next show will be on Wednesday, October 17th @ 8:30 pm (EDT). Hope you can join us! I look forward to learning and working on my webcasting skills.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.3
In order to keep track of where I am in course 2.3 / 2.4, I am building a meta list & roadmap.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf5_214gjr99k
I use Google Docs to create my own intranet of things...
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * orientation * 2.3 * meta * list * course * notes * roadmap * 2.4 * freeware
It is Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 8:30 p.m. I am anxious and at the same time hesitant about beginning this new endeavor. I am excited to become a part of a community of learners seeking to enhance their technological skills in a collaborative environment. I am hesitant because I am involved in three other online courses at the same time. I am hoping that this will not be overwhelming for me. I feel like the proverbial "jack of all trades" however unlike the "jack of all trades" I hope I will be able to master all of the courses I have invested mTaxonomy upgrade extras: * getting started * Class of 2.3
Welcome to new interns and welcome back to returning interns. Our session will meet for 5 Sundays at 17:00 GMT starting on October 14th. Please tell us about yourself and why you are interested in learning how to webcast. Forums: * Academy Participation & Development Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introductions * 2.3
This was the final session of Multiliteracies TESOL Online course given by Vance Stevens; http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/papers/index.html Special thanks to all that stopped by and participated live in our text chat, listening to the stream and part of our Skype Conference. Text Chat will be posted here as soon as it is available. Categories: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * multiliteracies * Vance Stevens * Other Shows
Join me, and my family. First we wish Leroy a happy birthday. Then dh (dear husband) Terry Preston joins me to discuss the elements of an effective advocacy campaign. Categories: * Class of 2.2 * AliceMercer * terrypreston * leroypreston * advocacy * alice'srestaurant * policy * politics * Other Shows
This webcast was for a doctoral class at Illinois State University that I am taking on Improvements of Curriculum and Instruction. I was partnered with Dea Conrad-Curry to lead our class discussion for this particular session. We created a wiki for students to post and respond to questions the week prior to our online webcast. We as a class have been reading about the politics of curriculum and thus text book selection. We had a guest speaker with us, Dr. Kris Ross talk about her experiences with these issues. Read more reflection in my blog.
Julie Schumacher
Class 2.2
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * show * class 2.2
One long hour of trouble shooting. Does Skype kick everyone off a conference call---is there a rhyme or reason?
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * reflection * class 2.2
This webcast was done with the intended audience of my students- Master’s level dietetic students at Illinois State University. I was fortunate to have an alumn who graduated in May working at a renal clinic in Chicago and was interested in doing this online webcast. She was a great co-host! You can read my reflection of this show on my blog post.
-Julie Schumacher Class 2.2 Categories: * interns * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * class 2.2
This webcast was done with the intended audience of my students- Master’s level dietetic students at Illinois State University. I teach a seminar class with the intensions of brining in topics that are unique and not always taught at rotation sites; one area being renal dietetics. I was fortunate to have an alumn who graduated in May working at a renal clinic in Chicago. She had wanted to do a class for the interns and when I mentioned the skype online webcast, she was very excited!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * intern * Class of 2.2 * reflection
Mac vrs PC
Thank you to all our listeners that tuned in for our first show. Jason Hando fought bravely for the Mac whilst Chrissy Hellyer played devil's advocate for the PC. Final score Jason (Mac) 12 - Chrissy (PC) 18!
Join us in a months time for Show #2. The topic is "Men make better teachers than Women".
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * intern * Class of 2.2 * jhando * nzchrissy * educationalbloodbath
It was a pleasure to interview Kim Cofino from Bangkok, Thailand about ProjectFeelGood - an online collaboration project we did together earlier in the year. We also discuss the advantages of becoming involved in collaborative projects as well as some of the issues. Suggestions are also offered as to how you can get started in a collaborative project with your class.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * projectfeelgood * nzchrissy
Webcast Academy Open House
September 23, 2007
Hour #65 of the 2007 Equinox Webcastathon
Jose, Jeff, & Doug discuss plans for Webcast Academy Class of 2.3
Chat Log Below**
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.2
September 21st, 2007 19GMT
FoodBridges 1st Show Ever!
Categories: * audio * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * worldbridges * interncast * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * culture * webheadsinaction * foodbridges * food * gastronomy
Enjoy the last part of the show with recipes!
FoodBridges Team
For more, access http://foodbridges.pbwiki.com
FoodBridges Show #1 Part 1
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * foodbridges
Welcome to Sudscast 2007 where John Schinker introduces the Worldbridges community to homebrewing! For added excitement, listen to the last 15 minutes or so as Jen gets ready for her first webcast (as a webcaster) while setting up her husband for his first webcast (as a listener / participant) and John prepares to host the show. Maybe we'll make this a Webcast-a-thon regular installment? See chat log.
Categories: * Class of 2.2 * sudscast * Other Shows
This is the second of my Conversations show. Dr. Jason Ohler from Juneau, Alaska joined me along with my good friend Kathy Malsbenden. Jason was in NH as a keynote speaker for the annual meeting for our state technology association (NHSTE).
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * Cheryl Oakes * maria knee * Jason Ohler * Sus Nyrop * Alice Barr * Lisa Durff * Kathy Malsbenden * NHSTE
It only took a brand new iMac and about 10 minutes of chatting with the fabulous Lee Baber and I was streaming and recording live on Sandbox B! Yahoo! I can't believe how clean and simple webcasting with a mac is. All you need is Nicecast and Skype.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * mac * Skype * Class of 2.2 * audio_settings
The Worldbridges Equinox Webcastathon is less than 36 hours away. The ever-evolving schedule is at http://worldbridges.net/node/3565
Interns (past and present), feel free to edit that page to add a show. You'll need to register at worldbridges.net in order to do so. We have plenty of channels, so if someone is already streaming at your desired time, you can sign up at the same time and stream on a different channel. This is a great opportunity to get some interncasts under your belt, so don't hesitate to sign up. Oldtimers, this can also be a good opportunity to get your gradcast out of the way and actually graduate from The Academy. Updated graduation info is at: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1176 The longer you wait, the more graduation tasks we'll add :)
Also, if you're available to stream at certain times but don't have a new show to webcast, you can sign up in the column for 'other available streamers'. Between scheduled shows, 'Other Available Streamers' can play recordings of podsafe music and/or clips from podcasts (from Worldbridges or other sources of open content). They can also be available to stream shows hosted by others who are not quite ready to stream on their own. If you're someone who's not quite ready to stream on your own, feel free to sign up for a time slot and note your need for some streaming support - chances are someone will sign up to provide it. As usual during Webcastathons, there will probably be a lot of late-breaking schedule changes and additions, so stay tuned to that page and the Worldbridges Chat Room (accessible from any Worldbridges site). Webcastathons are also a great opportunity to stretch beyond our normal audiences and topics, so please blog, twitter, and spread the word anywhere you'd like.
For those who are ready to take the intern plunge, the next Academy Session (Class of 2.3) is scheduled to begin the week of October 14. Jose Rodriguez and Graham Stanley will be serving as facilitators. Information about applying is here. Those who were interns during earlier sessions, but never quite 'followed through' are welcome to join in again and complete their internship. A Webcast Academy Open House is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 23 at 1700GMT
Newsletter: * The Webcast Academy Show Announcements
Hello fellow interns. Why don't you practice you webcasting skills and webcast your favorite podcasts. All you have to do is check for Creative Commons Share Alike License. It would be fun to add your own commentary and to get comments from live listeners. You can even pause the podcast to put in your "2 Cents Worth". Look for DJ Coordinator2 coming your way this weekend. September 21st to 23rd, 2007. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcastathon * Class of 2.2
Phew .... I took a deep breath and dived right in the deep end! I've booked this time http://tinyurl.com/2xgh9z during the Worldbridges Equinox 2007 Webcastathon to interview my good friend Kim Cofino. It will also be my first official go at webcasting/streaming on my new iMac. I think I might have a bit of a play around in the Sandbox before the weekend - so if you're online when I am - watch out I might try out the stream with you!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * webcastathon07 * projectfeelgood
Viaja con la Maquina 501 a conocer la música tradicional de México y sus variaciones desde nuestros antepasados hasta las últimas décadas.
Desde la Música Clásica en México hasta los Corridos y Música Popular
Visita nuestro Blog; http://umagumaradio.blogspot.com
Categories: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Alan Acevedo * Isaac Gonzalez * Juan Bosco * Cultura y Musica * Mexico * Maquina 50 * Other Shows
Join us on a high paced ride to Magical Villages of Mexico. Listen and enjoy the music and culture of Pre-Columbian Mexico. Spanish Webcast from Guadalajara Mexico.
Chat Between Durff and I (Jose Rodriguez) as we discuss what's happening on the show and I do my best at translating.
Below
Categories: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Spanish * Alan Acevedo * Isaac Gonzalez * Juan Bosco * Cultura y Musica * Mexico * Other Shows
This is a fantastic discussion Lisa Parisi and I had with her co-teacher (Christine Southard) who teach in an inclusion classroom. Glenn Moses and I took off our teaching hats, and talked about our roles as parents of special education students. Categories: * Class of 2.2 * AliceMercer * LisaParisi * specialed * IDEA * alicesrestaurant * glenmoses * christinesouthard * Other Shows
**Webcast Academy Meeting 2.2.6
2.2 Reflection, 2.3 and Webcastathon Prep, & general Academy tweaking
Sept. 2, 2007**
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| * Equinox Webcastathon - Sept. 21-23 | * Sign up at Worldbridges.net , edit Webcastathon Planning Page |
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| * Class of 2.3 (aiming for a mid-Oct. start) Overview of session leader duties | |
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| * 'Advanced topic' sessions for interns, past and present (i.e. advanced audio editing, desktop sharing, SL casting, show management, conference casting) | * Post to this forum: What are some 'advanced topics' you'd like to cover in future sessions? |
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| * Academy Tweaking + Producing more FAQ's + Book Editing | * post any FAQ (create content/ faq ) whether you have the answer or not, link to other resources (book pages, screencasts, or forum topics if appropriate) * edit or add any book page you think needs clarification, move content under 'curriculum' to main sections, |
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| * Class of 2.2 Feedback | * Create assessment tool (perhaps at surveymonkey.com) to get feedback from 2.2'ers |
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| * Assignment Rubric / Certification and Graduation | * Take a look at the first draft of the Assignment Rubric and make any edits you like. Take a look at the revised Certification and Graduation page |
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Chat Log Below
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * book_of_webcasting * graduation * Class of 2.2 * 2.2.6
Spanish Programing from Guadalajara, Mexico. MAQUINA 501
WEBCASTERS: Alan Acevedo, Issac Gonzalez, Juan Bosco. Apoyando produccion Jose Rodriguez.
Intro Presentacion
Origenes del Mariachi
Grandes exponentes
Acerca del Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi en Jalsico
Mariachis en el mundo
Despedida
(Fragmentos de música popular de mariachi entre cada bloque)
Links
http://www.mariachi.com.mx/historiadelmariachi.html
http://www.mariachi-jalisco.com.mx/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariachi
Categories: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Maquina 501 * Alan Acevedo * Isaac Gonzalez * Juan Bosco * Mexico * Musica y Cultura. Mariachi * Other Shows
A link to the show. The chat is below:
2007-08-25 09:51:45 cheryloakes seedlings -> Webcast Academy: Welcome to Alice Barr’s debut of Seedlings live
2007-08-25 09:54:31 alicebarr -> EdTechTalk: They’re coming in
2007-08-25 09:54:39 LoriA -> EdTechTalk: Hi Lisa
2007-08-25 09:54:39 alicebarr -> EdTechTalk: They’re coming
2007-08-25 09:55:11 LisaParisi -> EdTechTalk: Hi
2007-08-25 09:55:18 LoriA -> EdTechTalk: are you skyping and doing edtechtalk
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * alicebarr * cheryloakes * Class of 1.2 * Seedlings * bobsprankle
Spanish Programing bringing the Culture and Music of Mexico. Maquina 501
Contenido:
La Revolución y su historia como se ve y se siente desde el pueblo.
Participantes de la Revolución.
Corridos Revolucionarios
Francisco Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Cine de la Revolución
Historias y mitos del pueblo en la revolución
Socio economía después de la Revolución
Categories: * Class of 2.2 * Maquina 501 * Alan Acevedo * Isaac Gonzalez * Juan Bosco * Cultura y Musica * Mexico * Revolucion de Mexico * Other Shows
Here it is! HEY, where's my certificate? Categories: * Class of 2.2 * gradcast * amercer * Gradcast
Finally, I am able to post my interview with Cheryl Lykowsky, where she shared her work in raising monarch butterflies at home. This interview was recorded over a week ago but family and work events prevented me from posting this sooner. I enjoyed talking with and learning from Cheryl. We found that we had this common interest in monarchs during a WCA chat. I'm hoping that this particular show will be beneficial to others wanting to know more about monarch butterflies, particularly as they relate to classroom work.Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * maria knee * classroom * monarch butterflies * Cheryl Lykowsky
This was my second show. My guests were Cheryl Lykowski and Jennifer Wagner. Jose Rodriguez joined us after about a half hour. This show ended up editing to almost an hour. I tried to edit more out of the conversation but it was all so interesting, at least to me, that I left it all in. I ended up just taking out dead air, ums, and the start up chatter and ending chatter.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * webcastacademy * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * LisaParisi * JenWagner * CherylLykowski
This is my version of a Graduation Cast. I followed Number 1 (the Chief, Jeff Lebow) and Number 2 (Alice Mercer). Thanks to the Webcast Academy for making this such a memorable summer. Well back to work. 2007-08 here I come! Link to my Webcaster Portfolio.
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * class_of_2.2 * Webcaster * Gradcast
This is an audio recording of the planning session we had on It's Elementary. This will give you an idea of what you need to talk out before the show. This is a link to the version of the planning wiki page the discussion was based on: http://ourwebcast.wikispaces.com/page/diff/Agenda+August+27/7016439 Categories: * Class of 2.2 * Other Shows
Show notes:
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * audio politics policy opinion mine
This was a Webcast hosted by LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) in an Elluminate Session. I simulcasted on Webcast Academy Sandbox A. My co-hosts for this event were Henry Anker and Mathew Needleman. Henry talked about the development of Mr. Anker's tests. He walked us through a couple of his flash programs in math and in reading comprehension. We had a great discussion on how teachers use these web based programs for practicing of skills and review on learning standards. Mathew talked about his work as webmaster of Videos in the Classroom and Open Court Resources Sites. How he has used digital media to give his students access to learning success. He talked about the correlation between using these tools for learning and production of content by students and the ongoing debate on the digital divide. I talked about the Web 2.0 classroom. The different tools available to us. I talked about my plans for 2007-08 and making connections with other classrooms. Our conversation continued as Martha Valencia spoke about professional development opportunities in the UPDATE program. We had discussion about other tech happenings in LAUSD.
Links Referred to on Show:
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * Jose Rodriguez Web 2.0 Open Court * Videos in the Classroom * Henry Anker * Mathew Needleman
This is the audio from the Webcast Academy meeting 2.2.5, our last offcial meeting of this intern group. As we discussed, this is more of a beginning than an end because now you are all ready to become active webcasters in the Worldbridges and EdTechTalk communities. We look forward to participating in your shows!
Please note that in keeping with our tradition of putting raw audio up for webcast academy meetings, this audio file has a number of problems. I (Susan) was using a new computer to stream. One hour earlier, I had tested with members of the community and all seemed fine. As you will hear, there is a tinny sound, not quite an echo but a very unpleasant almost echo sound. Also in keeping with webcast academy and open source learning- all suggestions will be appreciated as I have not yet solved the mystery!
Thanks for a wonderful session to a wonderful group!
Best, Susan, Cheryl and Jeff
Categories: * Webcast_academy * Webcast Academy Meeting * intern * Class of 2.2 * final meeting
This was cross-posted on my website at Inside Edition: It's Elementary behind the scenes...
It’s Elementary » Blog Archive » It’s Elementary Show #3 Podcasts - Just Listen to Me! If you check it out, the show is surprisingly good and we sound like we know what we’re doing, but this show had some real pain behind it…
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Okay, James is a very hard guy to pin down, but I did it! Our discussion was based in a series of blog posts that started with Will Richardson's post from a conference on the Future of the Teacher.
James' post
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * AliceMercer * jamesfarmer * wca2.2
I found myself today chatting with my webcasting partner in crime Chrissy about what to do next as interns at the Webcast Academy. By the end of the convo we found ourselves laughing about show ideas for post-academy life and Chrissy comes up with this u-beaut title, "The Educational Bloodbath Show!!!" (disclaimer: actually it was my idea for the title but her idea for the show)
Here's the pitch: Weekly show where we tackle the controversial topics in education.... HEAD-ON, NO PRISONERS!
Possible topics:
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Collaborative Agenda for Webcast Academy Meeting 2.2.5
Interns, feel free to edit this page to add agenda items and/or questions for this meeting.
(don't worry, revisions are made automatically, so you can't do any long-term harm) click on the title of this post to see the full agenda
This is the day you thought was so far away just 5 weeks ago. Susan and I feel the same way! First we have to say Have a great vacation to Jeff Lebow as he is taking a well deserved break from Worldbridges and Edtechtalk. Welcome to Dave Cormier who has been participating in the WCA chat at skype.
1. Music
Please add resources that you use to this forum post. When you add links, be sure to explain how to actually capture the mp3 file and any other instructions needed to make good use of your suggested site.
2. Participate at edtechtalk!
Remember there are many shows at Edtechtalk and Worldbridges that you
can participate in weekly. You can chat and ask to be invited into the
skype.
Additional note to this item: This week, after a great show, Cheryl L said, "I am so excited that through the webcast I connected with someone who loves monarchs as much as I - who would've thought. It's connections like this that keep me going." This is the essence of webcasting! Connecting!! Soooo, what's the difference between podcasting and webcasting and what do we need to put on our checklist to make sure that we take advantage of the live nature of webcasting? Please add your thoughts and experiences to this forum post and then we will add all information to the Book of Webcasting
What does it mean to connect through webcasting?
3. What's next?
However, if you want to continue streaming how about the following?
Suggestion for continuing this collaborative learning, what do you think?
Create a time, weekly or bi-monthly, for different interns to sign up to stream a show so the interns can still meet.
Make some day and time suggestions to see if you can continue the learning 2.0!
4. Kick the Stream
Kick the Stream- you can sign up to take part in kicking the stream
during the class. You will need to stream during this activity.
Susan Ettenheim
Cheryl Oakes
add your name here! (all you have to do is be ready to stream)
So here is the edited version of part 1 of reading treasures.
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Shownotes:
This was a Spanish Webcast. Join us as we discuss Pre-Columbian Folklore. The Rodriguez Clan; Jorge Adrian Rodriguez, Don Rosendo Rodriguez and I (Jose Rodriguez) are joined by Kevin Sandridge. Special thanks to my It's Elementary Webcast buddies Lisa Durff and Alice Mercer (AKA stream checkers). Yes Alice; There was a story about Giants. I had a last minute change in computers after simplecast crashed on me. The skype gods stayed on my side. Only difficulty was audio on my mic was really low. Special thanks to Jorge Rodriguez for his superb storytelling; you can contact him at buscaespantos@yahoo.com.mx
Stories referred to on show below;
La Llorona; The Weeping Women a women that drowned her children and now is cursed to look for them for eternity. We talked about the different versions popular throughout Mexico. Many people claimed to have seen her, even today. Rosendo shared his experience. One night his wife sewing late into the night when she heard her wailing down the streets.
Duendes/Chaneques; miniture goblins that create havoc. Don Resendo gives us examples of how the goblins would hide their sandals and throw them in the prickly pears. Don Rosendo talks about duendes appearing near the Laguna where he lives now.
Tales from the Belen Cemetery in Guadalajara Mexico. El nino que le tenia miedo a la oscuridad.(Nachito) The boy that was afraid of the darkness. When he was left at home and his night light went off, he died of fright. When he was buried the next day its tomb was open and the body outside. The grave digger reburried the body. Each night for the next 10 days the same would happen. It wasn't until his body was put on an outside grave with the body exposed so that light would it rest in peace. Visitors still routinely leave candy and and toys to him. Many believe him to be a guardian angel.
Tales about Giants. The Mountain of dead in the state of Aguas Calientes. How Giants that lived on Earth were called back to the heavens. When they refused to go they were turned into Mountains. There was a certain romanticism. About a couple of Giants that still walk the alleys of Aguas Calientes.
Jorge shared with us a story about the great Volcanoes. The son of the Sun and the daughter of the moon come down to Earth. An Adam and Eve story and how they lost their divinity. When She dies he is so heartbroken he stays at her side until and filled with sorrow the cries his hear out (literally) the Sun God so endeared decides to keep them together forever as the two great Volcanoes outside of Mexico City.
Kevin shared with us his trip to Puebla. The Folklore he learned while there. Jorge tells us of the Creation of the Sun and the Moon. How the Sun is put in the sky. and how when the Moon is created it was just as bright as the Sun. The Aztec Gods decide this could not be. The Aztec Gods thew a rabbit at the Moon. It's impression is still there today. And with impact it starts the Moons rotation around the Earth.
Finally, Don Rosendo shares his personal stories of the bracero life in El Norte. The times he shared with my grandfather Tomas Rodriguez.
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Storytelling * Spanish
This show was a discussion about planning for teaching technology to primary students. I asked for input to my lesson plans from Maria Knee, since she teaches kindergarten. Notice the forceful patience that Maria uses in pointing out how I need to let the children actually use the computers on the first day. Notice how tired I am talking at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning.
Technical notes:
Categories: * audio * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * AliceMercer * coffeeklatch * MariaKnee
Today, Lisa Durff (from America) and I (from Australia) managed to get a stream working and tested by Kevin Sandridge via FlashMeeting, a free alternative to Elluminate. It worked very well I think and here is a short video I recorded of the live event using Jing:
http://www.screencast.com/t/H4UjkHV88tj
Perhaps FlashMeeting would be a worthwhile alternative platform for future broadcasts, especially given the recent choppiness of Skype and downtime from last week. Interested in what others think.
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I tried to post a comment to Illya's blog. Each attempt resulted in failed to open page - connection lost. Skype is down. Webcast Academy bumps my comments - this is hard on the psyche! I'm off to dial-up land again. I'll definitely not graduate until at least one more session.
SusanTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * comments webcastintern
So here are 15 minutes worth of skypeless talk. Note how the silences slowly become fewer as the topic consolidates around books. Boy, I was in a sweat!
Oh, and I wasn't alone. I had some wonderful people in the chat room!
See http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1221 for more about the show
and http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1222 for the successful streaming on alado
Categories: * streaming * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Skype * Class of 2.2 * readingtreasures
Carla Arena, Dennis Oliver, Dennis Newson, Erika Cruvinel and I had planned a great session on reading treasures with everything planned and organized. However, Skype choose exactly this moment to detach itself from the rest of the world. So after several minutes of ho-humming, Carla and I took the stream without Skype and kept it up separately, each talking to ourselves.
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Aren't you going to tell everyone about your BIG news, Chrissy?
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * mail languageimmersionaward
Categories: * webcasting * webcast * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * intern * webcastacademy * podcast * Class of 2.2 * webheadsinaction * show * reading * readingtreasures * alado
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,and the most patient of teachers.” Charles W. Eliot
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * interncast * webcastacademy * efl * esl * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * webheadsinaction * show * reading * readingtreasures * tefl * language * classroom
**Webcast Academy Session 2.2.4
August 15, 2007
Agenda type stuff
Chat Log Below**
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.2
Well - I took the easy way out. Sharon Peters and I recorded (and streamed without announcing it) a show on books. With time constraints, I edited it in Garageband rather than Audacity. I do have to spend more time with Audacity, but work has started, and I'm going to have to get to my webcasting slowly. Found out I have to compact my file in Garageband in order to have it save at 64 kbs.
I thought it did not upload (too big originally) so I tried to edit and replace the file. The info about the audio did not change, but I got a message that my entry was updated.
Still learning.....
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A book talk with Susan van Gelder and Sharon Peters
Recommended Books Getting Things Done by David Allen The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens Empowering Students with Technology by Alan November The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen The Long Tail by Chris Anderson Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * teachers * books * Class of 2.2 * reading * educators
Finally able to stream today due to much help from Durff and Susan! Thanks again you two. Had some flaky issues with Audacity. I had to start my audio recording and then switch to Stereo mix so I could record the other voices.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
I know this is not a great audio, but despite all of my issues of late, Jose and a few others were able to help me through this. I had other issues afterwards so I was not able to add intro or music. The echo or buzzing is audio equipment. I am just excited that it actually streamed and Jose can confirm it! YEH!Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
Webcasting is about letting it flow, letting it take you to unexpected places, voices and encounters. However, the backstage is about planning, preparation. It seems paradoxical, but, in fact, it isn't. To let the voices around you feel at ease, the group of webcasters must have an idea on where they want to head. The final end might be unpredictable, but they need to know what they are doing there to makes everyone comfortable and confident to speak their minds.
Categories: * webcasting * webcast * Intern Assignments * Audacity * interncast * planning * podcast * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * webheadsinaction * show * reading * class 2.2 * treasures * live
Sigh! This has not been a productive week for me at WCA. I've got two shows that I could edit and post, but I'm wiped. Calendar is starting to get too full. In addition I can't make the class tonight. I'm feeling really flaky at this point. I can get the show(s) edited in the next few days, but is there a "due date" (like tonight), or can I send it along later? Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2 * reflection plans questions
For all of you Grey's Anatomy Fans- this is a discussion I had with another avid fan recaping the season finale and giving our predictions for Season 4 of Grey's Anatomy. It may sound like high school gossip unless you watch the show!! We had a great time talking (her mic and internet connection were not the best, but we got by). We had about 6 in the chat room! Categories: * webcast * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * class 2.2
Carla and I just had a great game of stream-football, where we practiced how to kick each other out of the stream in order to take over. Quite easy, really. It was also fun just to talk.
It's funny how you can get close to people simply through chat, but as soon as you can hear each other's voice and talk and react, it becomes intensified. After only just a couple times it feels like talking to an old friend.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * Audacity * shoutcast * stream
Here is a picture of my audio set-up. The resulting webcasting is uploaded elsewhere...
This is my checklist that worked today:
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.1 * audio settup
Susan generously gave off her time to help me and then Jose joined us too. I grudgingly accepted his advice. The result is posted here.
Categories: * Class of 2.1 * audio settings * Other Shows
This is my first show. My guests were Alice Mercer, Jennifer Wagner, and, my daughter, Ali Parisi. Without them, I would have had quite a chat with myself and listeners would have been bored to tears. So thank you, Guests, for making my show enjoyable. You are all great conversationalists.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * LisaParisi * webcast academy 2.2 * Harry Potter * Alice Mercer * Jen Wagner
Just wanted to let everyone know that the automatic recording of the stream (Sandbox A only) is once again functional. Details in the FAQ (Publishing category).
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1194
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A few days ago, Alice Mercer and I arranged a practice session for ourselves so that we could continue to practice streaming, capturing audio and general trouble shooting. Alice has the first part of the conversation and what follows is the audio from when I kicked the stream and took over. Little did I know that I would lose Alice for a bit and would have to babble by myself. We were joined by Lisa Durff who reported that there was no sound but we were pleasantly surprised that the sound was there all along. I did some editing so that this audio could be about 10 minutes long.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
After the great success yesterday of converting to mp3 and uploading an audio file - with more than a little help from Susan and Jose - I thought I'd try basic streaming. I listened several times to Jeff's screencast, pausing as he went, double checked and got that wretched error message. This time: incorrect password. Has it changed? Illya phoned me last week and dictated it to me. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * basic streaming
Last week, I was having some trouble with Nicecast and Skype, and Lee was kind enough to take on my problem and help solve it. While I am still a little unsure of the complete technical description of the problem, Lee was able to walk me through my settings tonight and here are some things that we discovered.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio setup * nicecast * Webcast_academy * Skype * class2.2
Finally, I was able to get my settings correct with Lee's help and get my practice streaming session done. Thanks, Lee! Categories: * Webcast_academy * Intern Assignments * basic streaming * Class of 2.2 * class2.2
I think I first heard the term; "Open Source Learning" in chat in the Webcast Academy. I thought I knew what it was. I figured it referred to us choose what content we wanted to learn on the internet. I heard Will Richardson refer to ideas on the Read-Write Web and the like. I also keep up with other superbloggers like Wesley Fryer, Miguel Ghulin, David Warlick, Christopher Sessums, Steven Downes just to name a few. I even particpated in K12Online last year and Web Heads in Action Online Conference this year along with Necc2007 not to mention everything happening at edtechtalk. Nevertheless understanding comes through the practice or application and not theory. Not until Webcast Academy did I begin to understand Open Source Learning. It just all clicked today. I got a call from Kevin Sandridge a teacher in central Florida, we had a long talk about web 2.0 and implications for Second Language Learners, Yesterday Susan was asking about classes to recruit for youthbridges. I had a conversation with Chris Craft about a project on digital storytelling on Friday. And Today it just came all together. Dennis was uploading his file to Webcast Academy. It didn't show up in the flash player. I thought I would help out. How hard could it be. 80 minutes later with Susan patiently waiting on the sidelines we defeated the audacity gremlins and sucessfully uploaded the file. I felt great and was happy to be able to contribute. Open Source Learning means building on collective knowledge. NOW, I've GOT IT!
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... I'm dizzy... Trying , with Jose's help, now, to upload a version friendly to all playersCategories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * double-ended-telephony
Reading Treasures in the Language Classroom
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Frederick Douglass
This will be a piloting project with the LearningwithComputers group.
The idea behind the show is to give voice to LwCers to discuss the topic of the month. In this case, the topic being discussed there is '''reading'''. We'd try it out a first time and depending on our post-show analysis,we'll consider making it a once-a-month encounter.
The goal is to make even stronger bonds through the inclusion of voice in the group with synchronous interactive sharing of ideas. Also, for the educators who can't be present, they'll have a chance to listen to the podcast with practical ideas that could be used in their classrooms.
I'll invite other Webcastacademy members to join me to share the roles while streaming and sharing ideas on how to best carry it out. People to be contacted: Erika Cruvinel, Illya, Cris Costa, Dennis Oliver and Dennis Newson. Special guests: Gladys Baya and Claudia Bellusci.
We could try to have two streamers, in Sandbox A and B. Somebody who would be in charge of the chat area, welcoming people and keeping the text discussion flowing. A host that would be in charge of moderating participation in the Skype Conference.
Next steps:
- contact interns. Done
- Define the best time for the show. Done
- Send an invitation to LwC asking the ones interested to let us know their skype ID. Done
- Planning the show; resources; links; examples - On the way
Carla Arena
A Curious EFL Educator
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * webcastacademy * collaboration * planning * efl * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * webheadsinaction * show * interncast assignment * reading * esl. tesol
Categories: * webcasting * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * webcastacademy * collaboration * participation * podcast * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * merlot2007onlap * webheadsinaction * merlot * BeeDieu
Jeff Lebow Gradcast
Class of 1.1
August 11, 2007
Thanks very much to all those who joined in during my gradcast and
all those who have been part of my webcasting journey along the way.
Webcaster Portfolio
Chat Log Below
12:57:39 JoseR -> JL tell me when you are ready to kick off
12:58:40 JoseR -> the streamCategories: * jeff lebow
* Class of 1.1
* jeffgrad
* Gradcast
Rafael Murillo and I(Jose Rodriguez) present Best Practices for EFL teaching and learning. We are joined by Doug, Durff, Veronica, Jeff, and Vance.
Links referred to on show below.
*English Club: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/index.htm*
*Activities for ESL/EFL Students; http://a4esl.org*
Jose Rodriguez Classroom Blog; http://englishlearnings.wordpress.com
ESL Podcast Site: http://www.eslpod.com/website/index.php****
Dave's ESL Cafe: http://www.eslcafe.com
Homes Around the World Teacher Tube Video
World Conversation Club: http://eflbridges.net/node/99****
Webheads in Action Network: http://webheadsinaction.org
Vance Stevens; The Writing Matrix
Vance Podcasting Resources:
Chat Log Below
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Rafael Murillo * EFL Teaching
Can anyone tell me the url for the stream archives where we look for those fairies and elves who record our streams from the server? Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.1 * streamarchive webcastacademy classof2.1
What a long, hard road it was to finally get a successful week 2 assignment completed. I spent approximately 15 hours trying to troubleshoot the setting issues. I was successful recording and streaming my own voice but could not manage to get anyone else's voice.
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Lots of Lessons learned today.
First, Skype can badly misbehave and you have to keep it going. The solution? Maybe drop skype and keep talking to the listeners and asking for their input in the chat area.
Categories: * webcasting * audio * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Skype * worldbridges * interncast * webcastacademy * podcast * Class of 2.2 * international * show
I'm not having much luck recording both sides of a telephony call. I've started a forum topic here: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1171
and I would really appreciate any ideas, hints, tips, tricks, advice. It's 1.37am and I've been trying to resolve this since 5pm. It's time for me to get some sleep before the International Intern Show at 7am. I'm hoping that some lovely angels and/or fairies can resolve my audio issues while I'm snoozing. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio setup
* Class of 2.2
* audio troubleshooting
With help from so many people, I finally was able to stream. Thank you to Susan, Lee, Cathy, and Chrissy (at 2:00 AM for her), who worked with me through Yugma to solve the setting issues. And thank you to Susan and Sharon for volunteering to be recorded. Our fifteen minute conversation is edited here for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * LisaParisi * webcast academy 2.2 * SusanEttenheim * SharonPeters
**Webcast Academy Session 2.2.3
Show Management and General Troubleshooting
August 8, 2007
Agenda type stuff
Chat Log Below**Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * show management * Class of 2.2 * troubleshooting
So here it is - took me two serious attempts, with the wonderful help of Chrissy from NZ, Lisa Durff, Susan and Cheryl, we finally got it working.....so here is the 2 minute recording of my very first webcast that was done today while I was at school. Big thanks to all involved!! Categories: * webcast * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * homework * Jason Hando
I had great fun as you can tell and I think I did my homework correctly as an added bonus - that's the best homework to get, right?
p.s. someone should ban Chrissy and I from having so much fun - my side hurt after this recording! Edited down from 1+ hours to 4 minutes!!
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * down under * Australia * jhando * Jason Hando
Week two…..is it really only week two? I can’t be streaming already?!!!
But for as many trials and errors I have had, I am just glad I survived thus far! I have to first thank everyone, especially Durff, Cheryl, Susan, and Jeff, on the webcast academy skype chat, you were all so helpful and truly concerned to get me up and running. A bit about my attempt(s) so others can learn:
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It was a long road, but THANK you to everyone who helped me search, hunt, and dig for the magic button to get my recording and streaming up and running. You guys are the best!! For the streaming I call my dad to 'interview' him and my husband listening downstairs on the lap top to make sure it was actually 'streaming'...what a relief when it all went smoothly. Another thing I learned was that I really really need a headset and not my speakers, you can hear the repeater in the background in the beginning....but that is an easy thing to tweek!
Categories: * streaming * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
Argghh! Third task - not so smooth as second task. Had success streaming (with the help of the most incredible and dedicated Durff!) in Sandbox A on Tuesday night at 10pm - and I know I was actually streaming as Sagittarian's Stream as my very good partner Jason could hear Durff and I talking! Unfortunately, no such success with recording the stream - only my voice is present and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm not using a USB mic yet.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * SimpleCast * basic streaming * Class of 2.2 * USB microphone
As I read and listen to the posts of others and see/hear your enthusiastic voices, I am greatly encouraged that my technical difficulties will soon be overcome. With some initial help from Lee's great screencasts, I was able to get most of my settings correct. Then, about two and a half hours ago with the help of Lisa and Jason, I was able to get all the settings nailed down and actually stream on Sandbox B. That felt good, until I listened to the archive and then realized that I could only hear Jason, not me!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * reflections * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * first attempt
Categories: * alicebarr * Intern Assignments * cheryloakes * Class of 2.2 * Kick the stream * maria knee
Well, yesterday was a blast! Once again the intrepid Webcasters-to-Be gang got together just for a little practice, but it simply became a whole show! Yes, with guests, participants, change of streamers on the go, all kinds of topics...In the Webhead/Edtechtalk spirit, very organic. Streaming just started to flow and voices were pretty loud and active. My settings to record with Audacity and to stream in Sandbox A were the same as last time. In the middle of the show, I stopped streaming and Illya picked it up. Successful transition. Laughs! I'm sure Illya felt the responsibility of having Jeff as a guest of our show! One week before I couldn't imagine to be skyping Jeff who wanted to be there with us. We even had listeners, Linda Parisi and Susan Ettenheim got to Sandbox A.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming * webcast * SimpleCast * Audacity * webcastacademy * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * webheadsinaction * internship * Teachers4TELL
It's been a great two weeks. We've practiced recording and streaming but, there remains an essential question. Where are all the GUYS? It kind of reminds me of my experience as an Elementary School teacher. It is very typical to find ratios of 10 to 1 female to male teachers. Come On boys! Don't do this to me. I am making an ALL CALL to all the MEN Webcasters to be. This is your chance. Doug, Jeff, Jeff Flynn, Jason, Dave Baron, Troy, Jose A and I can only do so much before the final Domination!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Women taking over the Internet
Categories: * streaming * webcast * SimpleCast * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * webcastacademy * Class of 2.2 * webheadsinaction
Here is recording from Audacity of stream.
Mistakes made along the way: Forget to set wavein and waveout in repeater in an earlier version. Doesn't pick up anything that way, you get a voice saying "trial" over and over on stream instead.
Volume is still low for me. I will definately try to fix that better in my next attempt.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * streaming recording VAC Audacity Simplecast
Webcast Academy 2.2.2
August 8, 2007
Chat Log Below
Categories: * jeff lebow * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.2 * Cheryl Oakes * Meeting 2.2.2 * Susan Ettenheim
Thanks to Maria and Miz Mercer for letting me kick the stream succesfully. Last night with Jose and Durff, I failed miserably, today is a new day. Now I can graduate..
Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting * webcastacademy * cheryloakes * Class of 2.2 * Kick the stream * maria knee * Miz Mercer
Durff and I did the hamster dance
This is another section of my first streaming success. In it, Durff explains how to start a Skype conference.
Unfortunately, I turned off the recording too early, or there would have been a third show on how to turn off or hand over the stream. Thanks for your help anyway, Cheryl. I'm glad you could be there :-)
Categories: * streaming * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * skype conference * Class of 2.2 * how-to
My first streaming experience - hurray!!!
Thanks, Jose, for taking me through the steps.
Categories: * streaming * SimpleCast * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 2.2 * troubleshooting
Today I worked hard learning how to stream. I reviewed the content material, asked questions, experimented, hit snags, reset preferences, still had trouble, talked to others, wanted to scream, posted to the forum, took an outdoor break, came back and still don't know if I can make it work. Whew!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * teaching * online learning community * Class of 2.2
I know I sound like a complainer, a griper...and really, I'm not. But I feel like I'm back in high school. I missed one class, just one, and am so lost I feel like I'll never catch up. I watched Jeff's screencast (Thank God for him!) and understand all the settings I need. But I don't have a password to try out streaming, don't know where to go to try out streaming, don't know how to schedule time to try out streaming....in short, can't try out streaming. I'm ready to quit. But what kind of message would that send to my daTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
Listen to Cheryl, Jose, and I discuss audio issues I hear no echo....
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.1 * audio interncast#2
Thanks Durff for providing the forum to do our homework and also Doug, Jose Antonio, Illya, Cheryl, Marielle, LisaP, Maria and others that checked-in.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Streamiing
Been experimenting with different drupal themes for the Academy. This is a slightly modified version of the Zen theme. For now I've made it the default theme. What do you think? You can check out other themes by clicking on 'my account / edit' and changing your theme preference.
Forums: * Website Issues
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For no apparent reason, it worked.
It was a wonderful chat with Dennis :-)
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Audacity * interview * Class of 2.2 * 2-way call
My VAC/Dracula post is more of a micro-blog reflection. Here is more...
There is the argument in 2¢ Worth » In Response — The Need for “Web 2.0?
about what's really new about Web 2.0?
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Well it took some doing. I was finally able to record my skype call. Thanks for everyones help. I resorted to using powergramo. I like it. I couldn't find the link to the VAC's. I did have to go get more ram for this old beat up machine. Now that I have doubled it things are working better. I also made a successfull skype call. 2 more first for this old techy. My tech director is going to flip when I tell him all that I want to add to the Middle School Curriculum. :) .Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Skype * CALL * homework
I finally figured out how to record a skype call using powergramo.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * recording skype call
That overlap is created with some content when viewing the site with the default theme (Garland) on a 1024pixel wide monitor. You can fix it by clicking 'My Account / Edit' and then choosing either the zen theme or fancy theme. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Academy Procedures
If the Open House on Saturday is not convenient, please advise me. I may be able to do another at a time more convenient for you. All time zones are welcome, of course...and remember, I don't know what I am doing either..... Taxonomy upgrade extras: * practice * Class of 2.2 * webcastcastacademy * openhouse * classof2.2
What is an Open ID?
I really had a good experience yesterday and today. I was able to set up skype, I joined my first chat session. (hard to believe since I have been a school tech for 15 years). We were always taught chat was bad. I did enjoy it. And, finally I actually caught a webcast as it was being broadcast, not after the fact. love it.
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What a great first week at the Academy. Just wanted to share some thoughts (feedback, prep, and pondering) ahead of 2.2.2.
Watch Screencast
Thoughts for 2.2.2
- Site Navigation
Don't forget the Forums & Faq
RSS feeds at: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1029
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Skype chat
Anyone can add another intern to the chat
How to participate in group skype chat screencast -
Audio specs
http://www.webcastacademy.net/audio_specifications -
sample rate, bitrate
- ID3 Tags
- filenames
Audio from a problematic post can be re-uploaded. There's no need to create another post.
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Recording telephony calls
3rd party apps (powergramo, pamela, etc.) have never been used to successfully stream.
Sorry Winodws users, VAC's are most likely necessary. -
Recording both ends of a telephony call in Windows screencast
- Recording both ends of a telephony call in Mac screencast
Academy Membership Types: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1090
Passwords
General info at http://webcastacademy.net/info (intern access only)
Transmitted by voice only - PLEASE write it down. If lost or forgotten, ask for it in skype chat.
Streaming Practice Sandbox can be used anytime stream is available. Visit Chat Room, check listen page, stream away.
Schedule a webcast by clicking create content/event
Using the Webcast Academy Sandbox Screencast
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I am participating as a listener so far in this Webcast Academy. I have downloaded new tools, tried some, taught some and in general am a very initial learner in this realm. I love hearing the introductions and I plan to do what I can to work on my recording. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
I gave a complete overview of the Interview on my personal blog
http://explorations.bloxi.jp/a/interview-with-justine-a-brazilian-leading-a-team-in-india/
Hope you enjoy listening a talk on cultural differences in the business world.
Beijos,
Carla
Categories: * Intern Assignments * webcastacademy * podcastacademy * Class of 2.2 * CarlaArena * brazilbridges * culture * webheadsinaction * multiculturalism
after an intensive week with talking to people (great!), trying out audacity (easy), getting used to my voice (harder) and more or less successfully recording a conversation( more less than more), I'm slowly starting to feel comfortable with the different programs. It's tough, a lot harder than I had imagined, but on the other hand, less than a month ago, I didn't even know streaming was someting I can do, so I will persevere and succeed with the help of the others. Thanks for being there :-) Taxonomy upgrade extras: * reflections * Class of 2.2
Looking back at week one, I wanted to take some time to write about what went well and what my challenges are.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * reflections * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Week 1
Let's see if this works. Categories: * audio * Intern Assignments * Audacity * CALL * Class of 2.2
Well - my telephony assignment is posted - you can find it in the audio section. I've been frustrated not having access to high speed. I am now sitting in an Internet cafe, but tonight will be back on dial-up and know I will miss most of what is going on. Next week, I am going to a reading camp, sponsored by the Quebec ministry of education. I'll be giving a couple of workshops for teachers. The camp is about teaching reading, but my workshops will be more on story and writing - one on digital storytelling and one on podcasting. Unfortunately they will be too short to allow for much hands on.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
This is a recording of a Skype call that I recorded with Cheryl Lykowski. It was recorded with Call Recorder and edited in Audacity. Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * Skype * Class of 2.2
well, I haven't completely managed to record a two-way discussion; however, I have recorded each way separately. In addition, I've been playing around with audacity, so there is some profit, even if I haven't quite managed it properly.
I've recorded my 1st try with mrsdurff , which unfortunalely didn't record me (but there is proof that I was there!) Then I tried the skype lady, who actually let me do both, then I had a wonderful talk with Carla, but only got myself recorded.
Next time I bet I'll manage!!!!
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Skype * calls
Hi Dear Webcasters,
My name is Jose Antonio. I am a Brazilian teaching EFL in Brasilia. This is my first time creating content at The Webcast Academy. I am a great fan of blogs and podcasting for teaching. I always try to use them to help my students learn. I also have learned a through this kind of media. I am looking forward to improving my webscasting skills.
Abraços from Brazil
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2 * Introduction Blogs EFL
Yesterday it was the day.
We did it! YES! :-)
Here is the recording of my very first recording of a skype conversation using audacity. What a great feeling of achievement. What a great joy. And all thanks to my dear friends Carla and Dennis.
You are the best!
We are now ready for the next step. Llike Carla said. let's stream! :-)
Thank you all.
Categories: * Intern Assignments
I am still new at PowerGramo and just kind of using it without reading the directions first. It seems to automatically record a skype call, except for the time I was actually planning on using that recording for the assignment...hmmm. This is a short call to my mom to try to explain what I am doing with the webcast academy. I tried to edit some in Audacity, but found it very dificult to do when 2 people are talking at once! Practice, practice, practice! Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * trial and error
Hello Everybody,
This is my introduction. I did not do very well, but I am sure that I will be able to edit it as we move forward with the topic.
Thank you,
Jamila.
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Class of 2.2 * Jamila * Kader
Seeing or hearing the word virtual audio cables is now enough to make me shudder in fear and revulsion. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming * telephony * recording * VAC * Class of 2.2
Everyone is doing such a wondeful job recording their telephone calls that I got to wondering, could I do that way too? So to prove it to myself, I did. I am calling Dani, a friend in PA. You will hear me ask about Sharon at the end. She is Laura's sister, with whom Dani & I previously worked. Her sister is in a coma at JHU with a 1% chance of survival.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.1 * telephony Skype recording
I owe Cathy a note of thanks for her help with this one. I had a few technical issues at the beginning and she patiently guided me through. It really helps to have someone who's "been there" when you're first getting started.
My husband walked in mid-recording and the door alarm sounded. So, beware the 3 beeps near the end. I tried to tone them down a little, but couldn't completely edit them out.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * Cindy Phthisic * recording telephony calls * Cathy Evanoff
As I get started in Webcast Academy 2.2, I am encouraged by the many other voices that have posted before me, some only hours ago. Here is my brief intro with some ideas of what I hope to do with webcasting. I look forward to catching up with the rest of you and joining in the conversation.
Troy
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.2 * class2.2
Hi all - here's my little talk with skype lady
Categories: * Intern Assignments * telephony recording skype * Class of 2.2
Week Two Session for Class of 2.2
Wednesday Aug. 1, 8pmEDT / midnight GMT global times
| Topic: Basic Streaming Resources here2.2.1 Meeting Archive | Prep Screencast |
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Hi all! Here's my intro for this week's assignment. I really need to work on my webcaster voice. :)
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Webcast_academy * Class of 2.2 * Cindy Phthisic
Called Jeff Lebow very late on Sunday night because I was so pleased to have recorded the Skype test lady to Audacity. Here is a bit of the call with Jeff. We are discussing the fact that I was somehow able to capture Skype audio (including myself) without the using VAC, which I think may be related to the fact that I have a kind of a snazzy sound-card setup that I use for recording music. In case anybody is interested, it is a Creative Audigy 2ZS, which is a sound card with a break-out box (a separate unit wired to the soundcard) that allows for inputtingCategories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
Okay - better late than never, I suppose. I am trying to catch up with this class of interns (2.2.1) and hope that this audio introduction posts successfully. Looking forward to talking to you all. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2
Not sure if I am doing this right -- but here goes.
I don't have a usb mic yet for my mac -- but will do so soon.
I am going to try this entirely on my MAC -- though I want to go to the comfort of my PC...so please forgive me if I struggle.
Jen
I used Audacity to create this intro.....enjoy!Categories: * Introduction * intro * Class of 2.2
After many trials, I finally recorded a fabulous conversation with Durff. Had fun talking. Editing was tricky as our voices were mixed together and I sound much louder than she but for my first attempt, I think it went well. Enjoy! Categories: * Intern Assignments * Skype * durff * Class of 2.2 * LisaParisi * webcast academy 2.2
Today is day 5 of our Webcasting journey! The informal networks are helping in bringing everything together. I am networking with teachers all over the world. My cohort includes Bee from Brazil, Robin from the East Coast and Jen and I are Southern California. The bookmarking of the webcast academy serves as a quick way to communicate with fellow interns. Email seems way to slow and complicated compared to Skype Chat. So today Robin caught me online. We recorded our conversation and like Jeff would say "Batta Bim Batta Bum" or something like that!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2
Robin Ellis and I (Jose Rodriguez) spent a few minutes trouble shooting how to record two way audio using Audio Repeater and Audacity. I go through the settings on a PC. Have a listen as everything clicks into place! Categories: * telephony recording * Intern Assignments * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2 * Robin Ellis
When I publish an audio comment to my blog, this is what it looks like. No flash. In order to publish, you would need to go to file attachments and browse your desktop find the file, then upload. Attach, wait a while as this happens, then submit, and wait while it uploads.
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I made a little announcement. If I am in my account and I click onto create content, then select audio, I can type a short message, then go on to add my audio message. This way you can see the automatic flash player!
Categories: * audio * Intern Assignments * webcastacademy * cheryloakes * Class of 2.2
Great hearing from y'all. Especially looking forward to the Webcasts coming out of this cohort. Imagine the New Year's Webcastathon led by class of 2.2. I can feel the energy and motivation generated by this online space and it's only week one! Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Jose Rodriguez * Class of 2.2
This is a Skype conference call between myself, Cheryl Oakes, Robin Ellis, and Durff!Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
I have added the webcast academy group to my skype contacts, but is there a way for me to individuals from the group as well? I was looking for someone to try a skype call with but don't have names of contacts to try to call. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. I am robin.ellis1 on skypeTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
Such struggles with recording a Skype call. Spent hours yesterday with Maria, Alice, Durff, and Jeff all trying to help. Thank you all. Then my dear husband, my technical support, worked until 2AM to get things working. Got it going but nothing really sounded right.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Skype * Powergramo * Class of 2.2 * LisaParisi * webcast academy 2.2
I thoroughly enjoyed this task. I tried to use VAC and Audacity first, having some success calling the Skype Test Call Lady (she's so patient and "there" if no one else is online). Unfortunately her voice was not recording loud enough and I could not figure out how to make her louder. My USB Mic is not due in the country until 5 August so I've been using a Mic and Headset but with two separate jacks. Not entirely sure if that's the problem. I had already downloaded powergramo Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Skype * Powergramo * Class of 2.2 * telephony call
Recording a telephony call using PowerGramo and Skype. More details in my blog post.
Thanks Jason - you're an awesome partner! And I'll let you have the vegemite!
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Powergramo * Class of 2.2 * telephony call * skype conversation
Nicecast Screencastand Skype Preferences Screencast
Tags: * nicecast * lee_baber * edtechtalk * nicecast set-up * nicecast tutorial * nicecast screencast Categories: * Mac * Nicecast
I had this up earlier, just tried to post it again after realizing everyone else had it in Introductions and I added it as a blog. Don't know where it ended up the first time so here I go again. I do love technology, I do love technology, I do, I do, I do love technology. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2
I spent four hours yesterday trying to get my computer to record sounds not going through my mic. Finally gave up and went to bed. My husband, who had been trying with me, kept at it and, at around 2 AM, woke me to tell me he was successful. Now here I sit at 7 in the morning, waiting for him to wake up and tell me what he did. I remember something about my not turning on the VAC and about using a different repeater but can't duplicate it myself.
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Okay, I ran this through a great program called Levelator. This evens out volume levels. I think you can hear the difference. Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * audio telephony recording levelator
Okay, when you have audio like on my last file, you try to locate the source, so I asked someone else if they would chat with me in Skype so I could record it. Sharon Peters pitched in. Still you can hear some significant volume issues. The weird background noise is gone though.
This is done in Audacity on a PC.
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * audio telephony recording
Kids, don't try this at home! Lisa Parisi has been having significant audio issues, so when we went to record, this is what I got... Categories: * telephony * audio * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2 * awful
Did this screencast: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8d315555d5b3eb0dd45b
On how to make a conference call. Had to redo audio (which made it better) because the telephony set up for Audacity did not work for CamStudio.
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In my audio introduction it says I used a mac with garageband to record which I did but then had to download audacity and cover with it in order to post : ) Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Class of 2.2
Finally got my introduction posted. I must say I was somewhat overwhelmed after the first meeting the other night and hope I can keep up. I am on EDT in PA, work in a K-12 district as a year round employee and summer is very busy for me at work. I also have to get all software I am downloading onto my machine approved ahead of time which I have to plan for. I am looking forward to learning as much as I can and think this will be a great group of people to work with and learn from!
Robin
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Hello everyone, sorry it has taken me so long to get this posted, life had some unexpected but wonderful turns this week which sidetracked me from my original plans. Looking forward to working with everyone! Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2
Thank you Lee Baber for posting info in the forum (38 weeks ago) the screencast for setting up Nicecast for the Mac.
I had one minor issue with the mic settings but then I was "Good to Go."
This is a short recording I made with Lisa Durff. Thank you Lisa. As always, you are so supportive.
Maria
Categories: * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
I am glad to participate in WCA's 2.2. class. I have a hard time with schedules and structure. I signed up for the first class but drifted alway without completing the assignments as suggested.
One of my goals for this summer was to improve my web presence and contribute more to the EdTechTalk community. I have started webcasting on my own with ETTK12. This post, http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/945, is my application for that webcast.
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This is my audio introduction for the Webcast Academy class of 2.2. Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2 * Introduction Jeff Ann Arbor
hi again, i renamed my into audio since i jumped the gun and posted early - also uploaded audio so i can link here?
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Hello All,
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I used this opportunity to tell you about myself. I used Audacity to edit. I can't believe how nervous I was during the recording!
Maria
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2
Hello,My name's Barbara Dieu, or Bee as people call me online. I teach English as a Foreign Language at the Franco-Brazilian school in Sao Paulo, Brazil and I am recording this using Audacity. The music that you hear at the beginning comes from Gilberto Gil's site: http://gilbertogil.com.br . He is our Minister of Culture and also a famous musician, a pioneer at publishing songs under the Creative Commons License and on his site called (Banda Larga) Broadband you can find a series of remixes based on his songs so you can create your own re-mix or mash-up like I'm doing now.
update 28/07: I have added an explanation of the recording process here.
update 29/07: I have added the outdated code here for the flash button instead of uploading the mp3 file again to the audio content area so as not to encumber the webcastacademy server. I had to switch this text from WYSIWYG to text editor so as to place the code. hmmm, the button appears but the sound does not come out. Checking the html code. Still does not play...argh. Now , where is it that I had found that code? Ok..found my mistake..I added an extra pair of inverted commas after the src, argh.
Download my mp3 1.55 mb 1.21"
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I feel excited about the accomplishments so far, mainly recording a telephony call. In the past, there were always technical issues with the computers I was working at, I never got to record both ends. There was always one voice missing!
This time, yes. A big YES! WOOHOO! OK, the bad part? It's always terrible to listen to ourselves and I realized how LOUD I am. Had to edit the whole conversation because of my so loud tone!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * telephony * Skype * webcastacademy * CALL * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * brigadeiros * brazilbridges * culture * Brazil * webheadsinaction.Audacity
Dear all,
This time is full of WooHoo moments! Today I had a great time recording a skype call with Erika. I checked my settings before, opened the volume control, opened audacity and then the Audio Repeater (Yes! Don't forget it!). Then, I could see all the waves going on my screen from my side and Erika's end. Perfect! And the conversation? Even more fun!
Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * Skype * recording * webcastacademy * CALL * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * brigadeiros * brazilbridges * recipe * cooking * culture * webheadsinaction
Hello, I am Erika Cruvinel, a brazilian teacher who has been trying to learn how to stream for over a year. I joined the Webcast Academy last year, but the most I could do was to record one end of a Skype call. So please give me one more chance to learn more about webcasting. I promise to try harder this time!
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.2 * Erika Cruvinel
I used Audacity for the first time - not too hard once you know what all the icons mean. I tend to be a hands on person who tries things out and then reads. Speaking of reading - I had taken a holiday from reading blogs - I was water-blogged - couldn't take anything in anymore. But this has revitalized me and I have started reading again. I am very excited about this course and this group of people. Now - to find everyone's blogs and start more reading.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introduction * Class of 2.2 * Susanvg
A very boring recording. A good example of someone (me) not putting her mic in the right place to avoid breathing sounds. I'm sure Jeff will cover this topic (I am a prime offender) in a later lesson. Categories: * telephony * Intern Assignments * recording * webcastacademy * Class of 2.1 * class_of_2.2
Hi everyone
I do believe I finally found my way around! At least I've managed steps 1-3: setting up Audacity, recording and uploading!! Hurray!!!!
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Hi Wonderful People,
It is wonderful to be involved in the webcast academy! Thanks to Susan and Cheryl who invited me along when I showed interest in an Aussie EdTech Show.
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Hi everyone. Welcome to Webcast Academy Class 2.2! It was a fast moving exciting first class. Please excuse the variations in sound. I'm actually having some troubleshooting problems with my sound and tried to even it out a little. I'll be looking for ideas and help from you too!
This week's assignments:
- record, edit, and post your 2 minute intro
- record a two-way telephony call, edit it and post
- join the Class of 2.2 skype group chat
- Also, download your streaming software of choice and make sure it "goes."
Relevant screencasts:
- How to participate in group skype chat
- How to post audio (introduction and other assigments)
- How to participate in a worldbridges Live, Interactive Webcast
- Two Audacity Screencasts - #1 and #2
- Recording both ends of a telephony call in Windows
- Recording both ends of a telephony call in Mac
- Setting up Nicecast and Skype Preferences in Mac
- How to Set-up a USB Headset for Mac Skype & Nicecast
If you have questions, please check the Book of Webcasting and the FAQ. If you don't see any answers there, please post your questions to the Forums. Don't be concerned that it's a 'stupid' question. Posting (and answering) any and all questions helps make the Academy resources more complete Please post any reflections to your blog.
MOST OF ALL - go to EdTechTalk and participate in shows this week. This is the way you will get used to listening, chatting and learning all at once! AND post to the Webcast Academy Forums! Have a great week playing!
Chat Log Below
Categories: * webcasting * interns * Webcast Academy Meeting * Class of 2.2 * 2.2.1
This time is for good. One year ago I started, one year later I'm here for this immersion in the Webcasting world.
I've already recorded my intro with Audacity and have been playing around with recording. Finally, I was successful, but I want to record something exciting with the gang, Cris, Mary, Erika.
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Dear all,
It's a great pleasure to be with you here. I've been here before as an intern, but due to time constraints I was not ready at the time to find my way through streaming! Now, I'm ready to dive in.
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Audacity * webcastacademy * Class of 2.2 * class2.2 * CarlaArena * webheadsinaction
Hi everyone from the 2.2 group. I'm sorry I couldn't attend (was busy dreaming of sugarplums :-)), and I saw on the list that there are a number of people I already know!
I'm Illya from the USA, and would like to continue this introduction with audio once I figure it out.
At the moment I'm busy getting lost in the book and all the links. I can't seem to find the screencast (camtasia?) from Jeff showing how you can record using Audacity. I know I saw it there somewhere. Could anyone help me out? I also think I'm supposed to get a mentor.
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First you add 'webcastacademy' as a skype contact. You will then be added to the skype chat within a few hours.
Then take a look at this screencast for some pointers.
http://www.screencast.com/t/TnPDoVVh15_
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Hello,
This is my introduction for Webcast Academy 2.1 First the download Introduction
Flash player attempt # 1.
Categories: * Introduction * Class of 2.1 * Cheryl Oakes * Webcast Academy 2.1
Welcome Class of 2.2
I totally missed the first class and see many are already doing a fantastic job! I am willing to help any who ask and admit to knowing less than nothing
Categories: * Introduction * introduction * audio * webcastacademy * Class of 2.1
Hi, My name is Jose Rodriguez. I am a third grade teacher in Los Angeles, CA (USA). I also teach adult ESL at night school. I have been part of the Edtechtalk community for the last year or so. I recently started webcast on edtechalk; It's Elementary with Lisa Durff, Maria Knee and Alice Mercer. I am looking forward to becoming a webcaster building my Personal Learning Network these next few weeks.
Jose Rodriguez 3rd Grade Teacher, Adult ESL; It's Elementary Webcast
Categories: * Introduction * Jose Rodriguez * It's Elementary * Class of 2.2
What an amazing first session with Cheryl, Susan and Jeff. I don't think I've ever had so many windows open at once and the chatroom was just humming! So many awesome connections made today.
I hope I've uploaded my introduction correctly!
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Hi everyone! I am Cheryl Lykowski from Michigan. I am an elementary school teacher and I am working on my Master's degree. I begin my thesis research this August in International Collaboration. I am excited to be a part of this internship and I cannot wait to start connecting, collaborating, and learning! Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * interns * Intern Assignments * Class of 2.2
this is my second attempt!
we'll see - i may not have adjusted prefs correctly.
hey looks like it's working yippee
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Greetings.
I really feel like the kid whose peers left school two years ago, everything has changed, the computer room is where the bathroom used to be and no code words work any more.
I'm very interested in the present course, though I'll probably miss all the European-unfriendly meetings after midnight our time since I live in time zone GMT + 2.
I've been a registered member of WA for about two years.
I hope to meet up with you somewhere.
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Many of you have emailed and asked what you could be doing before class, well, here it is!
Get ready for session 1. The Navigation on the webcast academy is being edited, so bear with us.By the end of Webcast Academy session 1 you will be ready to record, edit and upload your intro audio.In order to be more familiar, go to the Edtechtalk.com
site and you will see a calendar of events. It will be great if you can
listen to some of the great webcast shows. While you listen you can
also participate in the chat, which will help you get practice
multi-tasking.1. Go to the book of Webcasting We want you to get familiar with the site. Go to Academy Participation and review the page Site OrientationHere is where you will find information from previous classes. http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/7092. Find the Webcast Kit, download and try out the software for your operating system/computer.http://webcastacademy.net/screencasts/orientation1-2/index.html Here
is a screen cast made from the last class. This will help you navigate
the site. You will need the headphones in order to talk and not give
everyone feedback or echo. The
versions will not be the same as the screen shot. Listen to the whole
little video for instructions on downloading and recording your
introduction.3. Find Curriculum Topic
1, then locate Basic Audio Editing, here you will find directions for
making your first audio which will be your introduction!When
you are using your software for recording and have questions, please
use the help in your menu of your screen. Also check out the forums
and leave questions and check the threads that have already been
started.Your homework: before session #1July 25/26Download the software and try it out to see that it works.Listen to as many webcasts as you can, participate in the chat.Get familiar with the Book of Webcasting.Homework to complete Session #1 due August 1/2, 2007Create your audio introduction screencast here: http://www.screencast.com/t/fWMe7G5TzUn
Participate in the forums.Create you blog and post your audio.Post reflections about your journey into webcasting.Here we go!Cheryl and Susan
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What is our plan for this show? 1. What is your show concept? Technology integration at the elementary school level. Exploring ways to go beyond barriers at our schools and districts. A forum for Elementary School teachers to discuss issues around technology in their schools. A space to showcase Best Practices.
- Who would be on the show? Tell us about each host Maria Knee - Kindergarten teacher in Deerfield, NH
Jose Rodriguez - Third grade teacher in Los Angeles CATaxonomy upgrade extras: * Jose Rodriguez * It's Elementary * Big Six
In putting my portfolio together I went back and found some shows I liked.
The first show was week 3 , you can listen here, http://www.webcastacademy.net/files/wow203.mp3
I like this show because, it was a show where I was in Wells, ME, and Sharon Peters, Vicki Davis and Jen Wagner were all in Atlanta at the Georgia State Conference.
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An open house is scheduled for July 21 19000GMT global times
and the first session will take place July 25, 8pmEDT / midnight GMT global times
Stay tuned for more details.
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Skills:
Post new event on calendar --- GMT Friendly Link
Plan an interncast to stream on Sandbox A
Mangage a live show
Post production audio editing
Resources: Recording and Editing Audio from Lee's Book of Audio
Screencasts:
General:
Desktop Management (Windows) How to use GMT time - What time is it?
Audio editing (amplify, compression, noise removal)
Windows
Adding incoming calls to a skype conference
Mac
Meeting Agenda Below
Tags: * audio_editing * Book of Audio * post-production * advanced audio editing
Hi everyone,
I'm interested and willing to guide a group of summer interns... let's see, would we be 1.5 by now? When would you like to start? When would you like to meet? I'd like to start as soon as possible!
Tags: * webcasting * Webcast_academy * summer * intern
Set Up - also see Screencasts at bottom of pageFor USB mic: 1) Plug the microphone and headphones in, then launch Nicecast and Skype.
2) In Nicecast's Source drawer, set the first pop-up to
Audio Device and then select your microphone for the Input Source. This
should be the same device selected in Skype's Audio preferences for
Input.
3) Next, open the Effects window, and insert the Application Mixer plugin.
Tags: * webcasting * nicecast * mac * lee_baber * Mac Webcasting group * mac webcasting * macbridges Categories: * Mac * Nicecast
Hello Everyone!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * broadcasting * Mac Nicecast * Mac * Nicecast * Mac Webcasting group * Other Shows
As part of WiAOC2007, we planned to provide an overview of what the Webcast Academy does, what's ahead in the foreseeable future, and knock a few items off our To Do list. Instead, we wound up playing with the newest tool in the webcasting arsenal - Operator11.com
Raw audio here Video Recording here
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Teach me to stream and I will do two more hours .... how's that for bribery? Taxonomy upgrade extras: * WIAOC2007 Webcastathon
Hello Academy Interns,
As most of you are probably aware, the Webcast Academy has been pretty dormant for the last few months. Hopefully, that will change very soon.
WiAOC2007 Webcast
Newsletter: * Webcast Academy Intern Newsletter
This node was used for webcast planning.
For achives of this event, please visit http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007
The Worldbridges Webcastathon - May 18~20
in association with WiAOC 2007
(for late breaking schedule updates, visit schedule.wiaoc.org)
CONVERGENCE EVENTS
Interns, feel free to grab spots now by editing this page. We hope to have two simulcasters when possible, so please add your name in the streamer column if you're available to 'simulcast'.
May 17, 2007
| GMT | Presentation | Venue | Streamers | | 22:01 | Red Carpet Coverage | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | | | 23:01 | Worldbridges Welcome Reception & Introductions (audio introductions - live and voicemailed) | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | |
Friday, May 18, 2007
| GMT | Presentation | Venue | Streamers | | 00:01 | Leigh Blackall Keynote address | | Jeff L Doug | | 01:01 | EdTechBrainstorm A cyber faculty lounge for educators to dicuss what they're working on, questions they have, and challenges they're encountering | EdTechTalk.com | Doug | | 04:01 | Jeong-Bae Son, Vance Stevens, Andrew Lian, Debra Hoven, Klaus-Dieter Rossade, Siew Ming Thang Computer-mediated communication: CONNECTing in a multiliterate flat world (90 mins) | LT Elluminate | | | 08:01 | Elaine Hoter, Asmaa Ganayim and Miri Shonfeld Building bridges between cultures in conflict | Interwise | | | 09:01 | Glenda McPherson and Malcolm Jolly Using Second Life for competency outcomes in vocational education (90 mins) | LT Elluminate | | | 11:01 | Graham Stanley and Kyle Mawer Digital Gaming & Language Learners: From Space Invaders to Second Life (90 mins) | LT Elluminate | | | 13:01 | Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, and Sasha Sirk Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking | LT Elluminate | Jeff L | | 14:01 | Paul Scott and Catherine Chapman Contact us: Interactivity and BBC Learning English (90 mins) | LT Elluminate | | | 15:30 | Michael Coghlan and Elderbob Brannan (15:30) "..."(an unconference) | Knowplace.ca | | | 16:01 | Celine Godet Using Moodle and Spip in the EFL classroom: The example of the "Intercomstudents" project | LT Elluminate | | | 17:01 | Nina Liakos Engrade.com: An open-source online gradebook | DiscoverE Interwise | | | 19:01 | Dafne Gonzalez and Arnold Muhren Seven innovative dimensions of e-learning | Alado | | | 20:01 | EtienneWenger Keynote conversation with Susanne Nyrop | | Jeff L | | 21:01 | Rubena St.Louis Can a blended reading course work? Feedback from participants | Alado | | | 22:01 | Elderbob Brannan hosts UnConference Session #1 | | | | 23:01 | Elderbob Brannan wrapup of UnConference Session #1 | | |
Saturday, May 19, 2007
| GMT | Presentation | Venue | Streamers | | 00:01 | Barbara Ganley Border Crossings and Contact Zones: Transformative Learning with Social Software across (Traditional) Educational Settings
| LT Elluminate | Jeff L | | 01:01 | KathyShields & Lisa Durff continue the conversation, keynote, postshowand more | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | Kathy | | 02:01 | Mona Younes Using ARCS model to motivate adult Arab learners in an online setting: IOL as a case study | LT Elluminate | | | 04:01 | Tom Leverett How blogging is changing the academic ecosystem | Tappedin.org | | | 05:01 | Perry Christensen iPods: Shuffling the way we teach | Alado | | | 06:01 | Michael Coghlan hosts UnConference Session #2 | | | | 07:01 | Michael Coghlan wrapup of UnConference Session #2 | | | | 08:01 | Elderbob Brannan hosts UnConference Session #3 | | | | 09:01 | Elderbob Brannan wrapup of UnConference Session #3 | | | | 10:01 | Peter Travis Podcasting Skype interviews with advanced learners of English | LT Elluminate | | | 12:01 | George Siemens Keynote address Connections and Conversations: What happens to content? | LT Elluminate | Jeff Flynn | | 13:01 | Moira Hunter and Mabel Quiroga The AEIOU of Real-Time Language Learning - Attract, Engage, Involve Online Users | | | | 14:01 | DafneGozalez and Teresa Almeida d'Eça Professional development through collaboration in wikis | Alado | | | 15:01 | Andrew Pinchon Seamless Web 2.0 collaboration tools for business and non-profit education professionals | Alado | | | 16:01 | Moira Hunter and Geoff Kaye (90 mins) DiscoverE - A 'test drive' in a synchronous classroom: Hands on workshop | | | | 18:01 | Teemu Leinonen Keynote address | | Jeff Lebow | | 19:01 | Robin Good Keynote address | | Jeff Lebow | | 20:01 | Anne Fox Using podcasts in the EFL classroom (90 mins) | LT Elluminate | | | 22:01 | Sedat Akayoglu Collaborative writing through PBWikis | LT Elluminate | | | 23:01 | Elizabeth Hanson-Smith Trends in Digital Media 2007 | LT Elluminate | |
Sunday
May 20, 2007
| GMT | Presentation | Venue | Streamers | | 00:01 | Karen Garcia Tagging and broadcasting with feeds: The use of RSS feeds beyond aggregates and syndication | LT Elluminate | | | 01:01 | Sara Rofofsky Markus What does it really mean? Cultural differences in Asynchronous Communication | | | | 02:01 | Michael Coghlan hosts UnConference Session #4 | | | | 03:01 | Michael Coghlan hosts UnConference Session #4 | | | | 11:01 | Heike Philp The LANCELOT Project | LT Elluminate | | | 12:01 | Heike Philp The LANCELOT Project | Second Life | | | 13:01 | GavinDudeney and Nicky Hockly Get a MUVE On - Education in Second Life | | | | 14:01 | Stephen Downes Keynote address Personal Learning the Web 2.0 Way | | Jeff Lebow | | 15:01 | Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow Educationbridges Town Hall - updates & plans for assorted Educationbriges and EdTechTalk projects | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | Dave | | 16:01 | Konrad Glogowski and Christopher Sessums Personal Learning Environments - Exploring Professional Development in a Networked World (90 mins) | | | | 18:01 | Webcast Academy Open House Beyond the technology - Exploring application & developmentpossibilities for this collaborative learning community | WebcastAcademy.net | Jeff Lebow | | 19:01 | Elderbob Brannan hosts UnConference Session #5
Sharon Peters conversation with Noble Kelly who is president of Teachers Without Borders Canada | |
Sharon | | 20:01 | Barbara Dieu and Patricia Glogowski Open and Participatory Webpublishing (90 mins) | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | Graham | | 22:01 | EdTechWeekly#31 | Worldbridges.net Webheadsinaction.org | Dave | | 23:01 | Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel, and Ronaldo Lima Blogging with Students: Ideas to Enhance Communication | Alado | | | 00:01 |
| In convergence with AALDP -American Association of Literacy Professional Developers Panel discussion wrap-up of recent EVO sessions | | EdTechTalk |
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Webcast Coverage of PodcampNYC
April 7, 2007
The New Yorker Hotel
New York, NY
PodampNYC.org Flickr Photos
| Click To PlayJohn C. Havens of pvandv.com, about.com, & lead organizer of PodcampNYC | Click To PlaySteve Rosenbaum of Magnify.net | | Click To PlayDiscussion with Gary Leland of PodcastPickle.com | Click To PlayDr. Kathy King fields a question from Chrissy in New Zealand | | Click To PlayGetting to know Podango | Click To PlayCC Chapman, of Crayon & PodshowSee CC's Podcamp Pix |
All videos belowTaxonomy upgrade extras: * podcampnyc
Part one of our coverage from PodcampNYC. Recorded during a live webcast on April 7, 2007.
This portion includes discussions with:Categories: * worldbridges
* podcampnyc
* podcampnyc2007
* Other Shows
Hey all,
I'm at podcamp atl and I will try to stream at 3:15. Most of the attendees are interested in commercial podcasting but I will push on regardless of the nmber of participants I have in my session, podcasting is elementary.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * stream * podcamp * webcacst
So here it is! It's on my podomatic Common Knowledge site. I only had some GAETC interviews on there and coincidently I had interviewed the WOW ladies! A double listen!
This episode captures the conversation between Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay
http://sendkathy.podomatic.com/entry/2007-03-13T19_13_51-07_00
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * interncast * podomatic * flat classroom
Now that we have all done the internet speed test mentioned on the Edtechtalk show (thank you for the GREAT links & Jen's persistance and unwaivering optimism!), how do I increase my speed. It is less than 1/2 of the best, averaging 1520 or so.... Taxonomy upgrade extras: * internet * speed test * connection
I continue to be amazed at how variable webcasting setups can be on different machines. I finally got this HP Pavilion desktop setup properly (I think) and before I forgot all the specific settings, I took this screen capture to remind myself. Thought it might be useful to build an archive of such screenshots to help those that follow (or forget). This if for an Hewlett Packard Pavilion a1640n PC Desktop with Windows XP
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Windows * Simplecast * hp
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * skypecast * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Windows * Simplecast
Tentative Curriculum Topic#1 Recording telephony calls and basic audio editing
Topic#2 Basic Streaming
Topic#3 Hosting, interviewing, & show management skills
Topic#4 Post-production and advanced audio editing
Topic#5 Different webcast environments and telephony programs (i.e. Second Life, Paltalk, Gizmo)
Finals Week Relay May 18Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * Intern Assignments * assignments
This recording captures the aha moment in when Vance managed to get Audacity to record both sides of a Skype conversation, with the help of Jeff and Graham. Graham, Vance, and Jeff then go on to talk about controlling audio levels through the various applications running, and then recap settings in Sounds and Audio Devices in Control Panel, in Windows Volume Control, and in the applications Audacity, Virtual Audio Cables, and Skype, in the hopes that this verbal description might help others who are similarly stuck as I was - VanceCategories: * software * Intern Assignments * edtech * learning * tools * education * collaboration * CALL * computer-assisted language learning * CoP * e-learning * instructional technology * IT * language learning * internet * pedagogy * online * professional development * reference * tips * social network
Conversation with a colleague in Spanish. Recorded with Pamela and edited with Audacity.Categories: * recording * Spanish. exam
I used my PC and Audacity (only) to creat this brief intro. I had a very inexpensive headset, which to my ears sounds not as bad as I'd feared. I am grateful for the Audacity tutorials (and Jeff/ Lee's advice about the LAME file) to get here, finally. Thx for your patience! Categories: * Introduction * introduction * Catherine
It was going to go so smoothly. We both got online an hour early and did some testing. Everything seemed like a go. Only, I didn't notice until 15 minutes into the show that I was the only one being recorded. As badly as I would like to post a show...I can't subject listeners to my one sided chucklefest. Lisa did a superb intro and I then I asked her what she'd been doing. It was all very exciting, until I noticed that when she was the only one talking we didn't have any bars on nicecast. Hmmm, we tried me calling her, me skypecasting her, Lisa skyping me etc for a whole hour.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * interncast * Windows * Simplecast * durff * shields
We finally have a basic 'Webcaster Portfolio' content type that can be used by interns to apply for 'certification' and serve as a personal portfolio beyond that. Interns can check it out by clicking ' Create Content/ Webcaster Portfolio'
A few issues to sort out:
A) How can be make the portfolio content type better.
Forums: * Academy Participation & Development Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interns * certification
A podcast by 1st graders describing how they celebrated the 100th day.Categories: * podcast * K-12 * Other Shows
The was perhaps the loneliest and quietest hour I have ever spent! Thank you to the one brave soul who showed up to talk a bit. And GStanley, get better! I assume that no one wants that great vastness of silence to be uploaded, you will only hear me typing as I answered my email. Well, one good thing, a kid I thought would never do his homework, just wrote a blog entry (homework) - I sit amazed! What is my next step towards webcasting with kids?Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * Skype * Windows * Skype
Click here https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skypecast * Windows * Skype
This is a recording of a skype conference call I hosted and recorded. I just randomly chopped out around 2 minutes. Audio quality is good, fairly even, but since we were all over the world, sometimes the Internet connections caused a blip.Categories: * Intern Assignments * christophercraft
This recording is more balanced than the first I posted here, where my partner is heard much louder than my own input. Here I called a regular phone from my skype account and increased the level of my USB Logitech mic to about 80%.Categories: * Intern Assignments * Better balance
I still have not gotten to the place where I can use Audacity to record both ends of a Skype conversation. But I did not want our Puffin Adverture to go un-recorded. So I gathered all 103 third grade students in the media center, dialed up Susan of Project Puffin and left the rest to the kids. I used a Belkin microphone attached to my iPod and edited the file with Audacity. It is far from perfect - but learning was done by all!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * Skype * Windows * Audacity * iPod * Other Shows
This audio was recorded with the PC sound recorder, edited with Audacity. I used my PC and a headset microphone.Categories: * Introduction * Bogotá * Colombia
**Workshop 2.1.3
January 28, 2007**
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General troubleshooting, a discussion of show possibiilities, and lots of audio adjustments.
This week's assignment: (same as last week) post a short clip of a skype recording. Also post requests for streaming assistance to webcast experimental shows. Tags: * audio * evo2007 Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
I am looking for the best place to start our student newspaper online. On what should we put it? What has worked for you? My goals are to save trees, to disseminate to our community easily, and to teach Web 2.0 applications. All suggestions will be appreciated! Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Windows * newspaper
Anyone seen it? Last observed on this blog hanging out - may have skipped town with the tape and stapler from the teacher's desk. If found, please return... Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skypecast recording
Hi All,
I've been using ID3-TagIT to add meta data to my MP3 files.
Here's a quick screencast.
Good luck class of 2.0.1!
- Alex
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Listen to the mp3 of GStanley's Skypecast about Skypecasting. Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * skype_recording
Here is a video for Audacity .. how to edit volume on pre-recorded audio. I did not record sound but I have a text message at the end of the video. Just trying different methods of using video!
I created a larger picture video here ! (takes longer to load)
~Lee
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * audio_editing * video_tutorial * Audacity * screenshot video tutorial
Is there a list of assignments anywhere, so I can get a look ahead?Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * assignments
On Saturday (January 20th) the Open Web Publishing EVO2007 session held a synchronous session with special guest speaker Clarence Fisher.Categories: * evo2007 * Other Shows
Trying again. Persistence is the foundation to success. Categories: * Introduction * introduction * mp3
Here is my intro created with audacity on a PC laptop with a Logitech USB mic. I had no idea I said so many "uhs..." when I talk! I tried editing some of them, most imperfectly. Enjoy! Looking forward to learning more.... Sharon PetersCategories: * Introduction * introduction * Audacity * mp3
Workshop 2.1.2
Recording a telephony conversation
January 21, 2007
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Once you've recorded and posted your introduction, your next challenge is recording a telephony conversation. There are a variety of way to do this.
If you want to record the conversation without streaming it to via the shoutcast server, you can use a number of skype 'extras', 3rd party recording programs, or telephony programs that support recording. More info here.
If you want to record the conversation and stream it via the Shoutcast server, things get a bit more challenging. Methods vary based on operating system, sound card, and an assortment of other variables, but generally requires either a desktop USB mic or a USB headset that has two separate inputs (one for the mic and one for the earphoens). It is doable with a 'regular' headset, but thusfar sound quality has been poorer and echo issues have been unavoidable. It is also doable using some kind of external mixer, but we have not yet experimented much with that method. Windows users will most likely need to use Virtual Audio Cables , while Mac uses will need to use Audio Hijack Pro
This weeks task: post a short (about 1 minute) recording of both ends of a telephony conversation using whatever method you can.
You can try to contact other interns or friends for the recording or if no one is available, you can call 'Skype lady' at 'echo123'
Chat Log Below / Tags: * evo2007
A primary student talks about and reads a book in a podcast. It's very short. It is the top episode. Click download and it should play automatically without signing in to the site. http://bca.podOmatic.comTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Windows * podcast * K-12 * books
This evening I had a very nice little chat with durff (aka Lisa). She and I wound up in a skype call after the skypecast got flooded by a bunch of hooligans!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * skypecast
In which Vance records his introductory offering to the Webcastacademy class of 2.1 using a shrink wrapped headset mic crammed into a round hole at the side of his laptop, recording with Audacity, exporting to mp3 via the LAME thingyCategories: * Introduction * webheads vance webcastacademy webcasting
I am a new intern. I use an Ibook G4. I used Audacity, Lame and Stuffit for my Audio clip. Also I am a Technology Coach at a Special Education Middle School in Brooklyn, NY. I use my computer a great deal. But I am new to Webcasting and many of the other applications mentioned so far. I am eager to learn and willing to help when I can.Categories: * Introduction * introduction
Hi everyone, I am buying a USB mic this week. For my first recording, I used my headset (I know, another no-no). :) Audacity worked great. I have a lot to learn, though.Categories: * Introduction * introduction
This audio file was created with Audacity, a desktop mike, and Windows PC.Categories: * Introduction * Elsa's intro
In this technology age and thanks to a variety of new online learning tools, any person or student can learn whatever they want or need without ever setting foot in a classroom. The tools we can find in Internet are amazing and effective at once.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Windows * Audacity * online training * language teachers
It's all about controlling your Audio Settings:
Today am am using Logitech headset with analog cables and a USB adapter. I will use the USB adapter to input sound from my mic. I will use the analog headset cable to feed my headset. I did have to use a USB hub to make this work since the cables were not long enough.
- I purchased it at CompUSA for about $60. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio
- headset
- logitech
Hello Webcastacademy! Do I get the prize for the least experience, the most to learn, and the worst equipment? How about a sign that reads, "Webcasting for Dummies"?Categories: * Introduction * introduction
Hello everybody! I just wanted to share with you my experience today! I'm so happy to have found people so patient who indicated me what to do and why, thank you to all of them!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * Windows * Audacity * EVO2007 Webcast Interns
Welcome to all new Webhead-webcast members! What a lively group. This session promises to be full of new adventures in webcasting. I chatted with several of you, post-show. My impression is that you all have a wide range of tech-abilities. Message for beginners - don't get discouraged. You can do it!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * skypecast * audio * Skype * intern * evo * podcast * registar
If you are an intern, here is a link to the Forum "How To Get Started". I have also included a link there to a video tutorial screencast to show how to post your introduction. ~Lee
- http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/698
- http://www.newmediaguides.com/files/AudioIntro.mov Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introduction
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- getting started
Webcast Academy Meeting 2.1.1a January 14, 2007
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The official opening session with the EVO2007 session of Webcast Academy 2.1.1 .
Interns are still being accepted for this session. If you would like to join, please
Check out Lee's "How to Get Started at the Academy" post
Chat Log Below
Tags: * evo2007 Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
This was a great show, Susan Ettenheim, Paul Allison, Lee Baber,Dave Cormier, Sharon Peters, Vicki Davis, Cheryl Oakes, all chat about the podcasting, blogging and elggs happening among the group. Grab a cup of tea and join us.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast Academy Meeting * Teachers Teaching Teachers * Mac * Nicecast * women of web 2 * Dave Cormier
Grade 8 Radio #1, segment "Don't Jump"Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Grade 8 Radio
8 Grade Radio #1, Segment 1, "Model Talk"Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Grade 8 Radio
I just listened to the 8th. grade New York City kids on their program. I know most of the technical stuff was done for them by someone else, but I am still motivated by them to carry on trying. The nut I have to crack is very basic: I cannot get streaming to work and NO-ONE can tell me why. If there is a PC Windows XP person in the house (on the list) who thinks they may be able to help, especially empßloying trouble-shooting, error analysis - whatever - do, please contact me at: djn@dennisnewson.de
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Tomorrow starts my week-long experiment with 8th graders webcasting. Because we only have a few days, my focus for the students is on their shows and not so much on the technology. I will be handling most of the streaming stuff.
But, we would love for you to tune in, especially in the chat room. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, 12:30pm EST (17:30 GMT)
First show topics here
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * 8th grade * experiment
Here is the posting of the Show 10 for Wow 2. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Mac * Nicecast * wow2
Webcast Academy Meeting 2.1.0
Planning Session January 7, 2007
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Deep Probing Questions (see text answers on FAQ page)
Tags: * webheads * evo2007
Hm, it seems like I need to catch up with all the posting. Since Women of Web 2.0 post to podomatic, and I am usually just trying to get things done and on to the next thing on my list, I've neglected my webcast blog.
So here goes.When I looked back, the numbering of the shows is just a little nonsequential. So, I"ll try and get back in order and make available all the shows or links to shows here.
Even though this says it is Week 10, really it is show number 8!
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * nicecast * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Mac * Nicecast * wow2
Finally, I have recorded a conversation with the Skype Lady on my Dell XPS desktop. I am not going to make you read all the details, but this is what I have received from Dell so I can have the "stereo mix" choice under the recording options.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio * Intern Assignments * Skype * skype_recording * Dell
**Women of Web 2.0.10
January 2, 2007
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Chat Log Below
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In order to complete my internship I must produce three webcasts correct? I have one in the works for this month but the date has yet to be set in stone. I have a plan for a second meeting which will be a forum for the educators from different states who have agreed to work collaboratively with teachers at my school this semester. They don't know about this meeting just yet! The final show, well that remains a mystery. I just know an idea will wander into sight and I'll snare it for the final show. Final is a strong word but without a team I don't think I could keep this up on my own. I think I'll be happy playing backup for wow2 and that's important. I will also be happy to help other new interns. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * Audacity * Skype * intern * VAC * stream * audio repeater
I can and I did! Yes, when push came to shove I managed to create a stream using Simplecast and it really worked. As it turns out my stream wasn't needed but the fact that I actually produced a working stream made me feel so relieved. Relieved, mystery solved. Guess how I did it? When Jen Wagner suggested I try because our very own Cheryl Oakes of the WOW2 webcast, was temporarily off the radar with a bad connection, I pulled up Jeff's screencast and let him walk me through it. It took about 8 minutes to get it going and at the same time Lee who had also been on the job created a stream from the edu bridges site. My stream was produced through the webacademy sandbox so it wasn't ideal. Despite the fact that I wasn't needed after all, it was a personal achievement and I was elated. Now I really can be a backup for Cheryl if she needs me. I also used my school's edirol to make the recording. It came in a little low but with the normalize function in Audacity the sound was fine. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * SimpleCast * interncast * stream * wow2 * sendkathy
I just wanted to apologise and say thanks to all at the Webcast Academy. The pressures of work and life have got in the way in the last month or so, hence my fading from active participation. Like others here I guess, I typically take on too much. Congratulations to Anne for the Edublog award. I hope to re-engage at some point, but until then best wishes to all of you for the new year.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * participation
Hello all 1.x interns,
Firstly, thanks to all of you for making the inaugural year of the Webcast Academy such an interesting one. The 2007 New Year Webcastathon is almost here.
Doug will be discussing things on N. American Thursday night, December 28 6pmPST/9pmEST/ 2am GMT (global times) and the webcastathon itself begins on Friday Dec. 29 9pmEST / Saturday December 30 2amGMT (global times) and will wrap up on Monday, January 1, 2007 at 6pmEST/2300GMT (global times). We probably won't be going non-stop, but trying to fill as much of the time as possible with live discussions - reflecting on the past year, planning for the year ahead, and just having a live, interactive, global New Year's party.
All interns are welcome to participate - please edit this tentative schedule in the Book of Webcasting to sign up for any time slots. Feel free to discuss any topic of interest and/or invite any guest. If you're not sure you'll be able to stream without a safety net, please indicate that on the schedule, and chances are we'll be able to find a streamer for you. If you were part of a 1.x class, but never followed through and haven't stopped by the Academy for quite a while, please know you are still welcome.
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Just want to let you know that my unsuccessful journey down the road of webcasting, has left me only one option… to cheat. I’ll remind you, I am the person without a stereo mix option on either my home computer or my school laptop – both Dell. I originally called tech support but hung up frustrated. While attending the NCETC I looked up the Dell rep to pl
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Whoops we missed a week. However, here are the shows week 7, and a 2 part show for week 8.
Enjoy.
Week 7 David Warlick and Sheryl NB.
Week 8 Leslie Fisher
http://womenofweb2.podomatic.com/
or listed here.
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I haven't used my secret access code yet to test simplecast. I have other more pressing concerns at the moment. I have listened in to many webcasts over the past several weeks and I still feel like Dorothy when she visits the wizard for the first time. I'm not sure what lies beyond the curtain.
1. How exactly is the initial call set up?
2. Is the host, guest and other primary speakers on a separate conference call just in case skype doesn't work?
3. What exactly are the contingency plan steps? Is there a checklist? If skype is going to begin charging what does that mean for us?Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting
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Webcast Academy Meetin 1.3.9 Dec. 17, 2006
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Discussion of wrapping up the Class of 1.3, what lies ahead, and planning the New Year's Webcastathon. Interns, please add your shows to the 2007 New Year Webcastathon schedule. If you'd like to do a show/host a discussion but are not ready to stream solo, please post a request for streaming support in the forums.
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How do I book the sandbox to practice the streaming set up? I went to the schedule and it didn't look too full but I was unable to sign up. If you are all busy with Holiday preparations I could do my test on January 2nd or 3rd any time during the day because I have off work. Please let me know how to proceed. Thanks. Kathy ShieldsTaxonomy upgrade extras: * streaming * sandbox * schedule
This was my first live show. It was short and I had responsibility for very little but still I had problems concentrating even though I have quite a bit of experience hosting live online multimedia meetings. A huge thank you to Jeff for seeing to the webcast hosting, streaming and recording. What was there left to do? Hosting and keeping an eye on the chat. I discovered that all my attention was centred on the hosting and I missed most of the chat as a result.
Skype was not optimal but the recording is usable (which is one of my main goals). Have a little question about how I download Jeff's audio file. It behaves differently on different computers and here at work it opened in in Windows media player and I was able to go to files and 'save as' but then got only the first ten minutes?? When I tried save as again I was horrified to find 3 Gb waiting to be downloaded so stopped the second attempt. (The first attempt had told me the file was about 37Mb which seemed reasonable).
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Like most of the interns in 1.3 I have struggled with my audio settings, wrestled with my microphones and tried to rewire my virtual audio cables. All this to be met with consistent failure sprinkled with a healthy dose of encouragement along the way. Enough with the history lesson let me get to the good news! I did it! Last night I was testing my new R1-edirol digital recorder. I was very happy because I was able to use the headphone jack out from the computer and the line-in into my device. I attached my basic headset to the recorder to see if it was picking up anything. Affirmative. I tried a skype call and entered a skypecast. Fine. The only difficulty arose when I tried to join the skypecast. Hmmm, the desktop mic was in the USB but even with some selection adjustments no-go. Ah ha! Why not open the VAC. Yes! The key was in the order I opened the utilities. (Jeff has said this before, I bow down to the great and powerful wizard) I had my R1 attached, the desktop mic plugged in,then I opened and started VAC. Finally I opened and launched the skypecast. I listened through my headphones attached to the R1 and spoke through the desktop mic plugged into the USB. Success! I'm ready to try streaming. I know, I know. When is it available you ask? I don't know but I plan to find out soon. Would any interns like to join me for this exciting first? Let me know. I'm just alittle happy, can you tell?
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... happened during this evening's webcast academy weekly meeting. I thought it had happened last Thursday but when I listened to the playback I found that the flat level of noise was not me being recorded quietly but was in fact noisy silence.
However over the last week I have made progress in eliminating echo on Skype by dividing the job of recording and playback between my USB soundcard and my internal soundcard.
And this evening I managed to make a recording. The attached file is not coherent as it consists of three test slices of the meeting and I have not edited it at all. I notice that the sound levels are very variable. I was controlling sound levels through Audacity but the recording would need more manipulation to level them out even further if I were publishing this.
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Webcast Academy Meetin 1.3.8 Dec. 10, 2006
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Agenda
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Book of Webcasting, Hardware & Software Profile Pages
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Skypecast Alternatives
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New Year Webcastathon
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Open Troubleshooting
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A discussion with Brad and Cathy that includes the appropriate use of technolog y in education to Australian Christmas stories.
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Download (19MB) The Euromeeting on Thursday the 7.12.06 was hosted by Anne Fox in a
skypecast-room and recorded and edited (strongly) in Audacity and
streamed to Sandbox A and B with SAM Broadcastiing by Niels. Before
the start we played Beethowen 5. sym found on wikimedia - and a litte
glimse of Danish music (Kim Larsen: Kloden drejer stille rundt = the
Earth is turning silent around) just to suppress Doug a little (sorry
for that, Doug)
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As I continue to fail to record using VAC, I thought it was just my luck that I couldn't book a Skypecast for Monday. Using the skypecast booking system and having chosen the date I got the message that it was not possible to book a session more than two weeks in advance. I found this baffling but having notified Skype support they have replied that this is a problem they are aware of and which they are working to rectify. Just in case anybody else out there is experiencing the same frustration.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skypecast booking
This is our 6th show. I heard all about Skype 3.0, but it is not available for Mac, yet. I limped along with 2.0.0.2, after theshow I upgraded to 2.0.0.6.We had over 20 people in the skypecast, a dozen in the chat. It was a busy show. Finally I was able to mute all, and select the individuals who asked to speak.
Webcasting gets easier, but the glitches are the same. Put the goggles on, seatbelts and sometimes a bungee cord to get through the show!
Over and out.
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I have posted about the recent reaction paper I had to submit for my Masters course, which examines the Academy as an online learning community, over at EducationBridges. Please note that I feel this barely covers the wide range of issues I looked at when researching for the paper. I had to cut back quite a lot to keep within the assigned word limit.
http://elgg.educationbridges.net/bradh/weblog/793.html
This blog is an extension of some of the ideas discussed in today's' skype conference...The webcast academy already has several metaphors currently in use. One is the 'academy' and the other is 'bridges'. A third general metaphor is 'community'. In a way having three 'identities' can be a little confusing. A new visual model would serve as the hanger for new ideas. By visual I am mean image based as opposed to text based. To me text is auditory, it's just an internal dialogue. A site needs to have a strong metaphor and graphical interface if it's going to build a community image in the users mind. Users need to construct a mental model of the community. They need to define their role as well as the roles of others. They must be able to find their way around the community easily, unless the goal is to create a maze and reward only those who can figure it out.It's like browsing a multidimensional universe. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * Webcast_academy * community * avitars * technical * interface
**Webcast Meeting 1.3.7
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Our weekly discussion started by troubleshooting Anne's audio challenges (leaving her without any functional way of communicating with us) and then got into discussing the homestretch of this session and what lies beyond, and finally got into other issues of building Worldbridges and its component sites.
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As Anne has already reported, she Niels and I tried to meet last night. I called a conference, then set up a Skypecast, then Niels set up a Skypecast and we ended up in Webhuddle. In the conference and the Skypecasts there were terrible echo problems. In the Webhuddle I simply could not find how to activate sound, and there did not seem to be any instructions anywhere. We were ejected unceremoniously after a shortish period.
This is often a Beta world, isn't it? When things work it is impressive. But they often do not work and for reasons unknown to anyone around at the time.
I have had experience of other Skypecasts in the last couple of days. It is a jungle. If you do not "mute all" and invite people to speak selectively, you are lost. And the language of some of the people that will start speaking if you don't stop them is not the sort of language you would want your grandmother to hear.
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I have finally today succeeded in recording both ends of a telephony call after much playing with sound settings and after experimenting with a different computer and different versions of Audacity. My settings were as follows:
Equipment: Laptop with wireless connection External USB sound board Audio Advantage Roadie
Headphones and mike plugged into the Roadie- 1. Control Panel Settings
Ø Audio: Recording, RoadieØ Playback, RoadieØ Voice: Recording RoadieØ Playback Roadie 1. Sound Properties
Ø Recording: Stereo MixØ Playback: Mike checked 1. Audacity (ver 1.2.3) I/O
Ø Audio in RoadieØ Audio out: Roadie 1. Skype
Ø Audio in RoadieØ Audio out RoadieØ Let Skype decide: unchecked 1. Audio Repeater
Ø Wave in sound cardØ Wave out: Roadie I don't understand why this combination works. The settings in audio repeater seem to be exactly the opposite of those recommended in Jeff's screencast. I wish I understood more what I was doing!
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Wanted to share my experience of this afternoon regarding "audio issues" with my Dell Latitude D800 laptop. Out of nowhere I began having trouble with the sound on my laptop. The internal speakers weren't producing any sound -- no start-up/shut-down for Windows, or anything else -- and plugging in headphones led "white noise" but even that was extremely faint.
I went into the audio settings and everything seemed as it should be. Control Panel > System > Device Manager also indicated that everything was working as it should, although I still was unable to get any sound out of the machine.
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This show is a shorter version of Women of Web 2.0.
Thanks to Maria Knee, Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr and Ed Trouble Latham. Cheryl Oakes recorded and mixed.
Thanks to Derek Miller for his music Meltdown Man.
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I at least have a quick recording of the SkypeLady and me. Just used Pamela - but at least it is a very minor baby step. It is just a simple mono recording. Now, onward.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * Pamela * Windows * Skype * skype_recording
Webcast Meeting 1.3.6
Jeff, Doug, Niels - and Kathy speaking about this agenda - and other interesting things for interns in the webacademy class 1.3.6. The meeting took place in a SkypeCast room under SKYPE v. 3.0 Recorded in Audacity - and edited just a little and streamed by Nies to Sandbox A and B - an by Jeff to Channel 1 and 2.The Chatrom was disabled - at "Plan B chat room" was set up by Jeff
Agenda 1. Welcome to intern meeting 1.3.6 2. Debate about the way of learning on Drypal/Moodle 3- Problems and solutions of this week 4. About editing the files after the recording? 5 Skype 3.0 - hosting a webcast? 6. Other subjects of this week 7 Round up Host.: Niels Damgaard, Oslo Download (27,3 MB) Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interns
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This show features a guest interview with Patsy Lanclos. Sharon was under the weather but Vicki, Cheryl and Jen were in the webcast. Thanks to Patsy for her great comments and vision.
Enjoy!
Next Tuesday a live webcast, you will listen to at 9 PM as a podcast. Enjoy our live report coming to you From Christa McAulliffe Technology Conference, Nashua, NH.
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Hi all, my podcast postings succeeded in attracting a special guest for my January webcast. Now the only hurdle to cross is actually recording and streaming b the last week in Jan! My grad semester ends in a week and I intend to devote mega hours making this all work for me. I hope to join the Sunday meeting this week. I've been having conflicts but as you know I've been listening in to the 2.0 show. I too have the sigma tell audio card and may attempt to do my next skypecast via my mac to see if it's any easier. Bottom line, I'll be 100% involved in about a week. Euro-minicast...great job! I enjoyed listening and may try to tune in on Thursday, at least as a listener in the chat room.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * skypecast * interview * intern * special guest
Here is the report on our meeting today Thursday the 23.11.06 in the Euro-very-Mini-group - only 2 attentans!
Dennis was hosting the meeting in the webcastroom - and I Niels was recording in Audacity - and straming to sandbox A and B with SAM.
We startet with a bit of Danish music - have a good conversation - and ended up with a little music - just for fun!
Ther was nobydy in the chatroom today - only Dave was inside for some few minutes.
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I have set up a Skypecast, as promised, for tonight 19:00 GMT (I will actually be online 15 mins earlier).
- We may move away from Skypecast at some point and go off somewhere quiet - Webhuddle, perhaps. It depends how many we are.
If we do, I will use the password Eurozone for the meeting.
Keywords for finding us on Skype are: Dennis eurozone webcastinginterns and Niels
Cheers, Dennis
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I have reached the end of SigmaTel soundcard knowledge. I happen to have the same issue on my laptop, which is my school machine, and my desktop, which is my home machine. Both being Dell, both having SigmaTel soundcards. Both not giving me the option of StereoMix for recording. I have tried the suggested drivers on both machines. When I updated the driver on the laptop it worked for about 5 minutes then the sound crashed and there was no sound at all. I rolled back the driver, and was back to square one. On the second try of updating the soundcard driver it worked for a few minutes, then crashed the sound. I have had no luck with the desktop at all.
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SusNy, DK
Dear friends,
I am afraid I'll have to follow Bengt's example and leave this Academy class for now. First of all I need to make both ends meet in my private as well as my professional life. Then, I also regret not having the necessary technical skills for doing this - at least not without a huge lot of hard work which is not realistic for the time being. Second Life in education is something that I would want to explore in a more back leaned mode in my free time (when I'm not doing courses, exam work or writing on my own final). Anyway, who knows if there will be found easier and more handy solutions for webcasting in a near future, that even a not so techie like myself could handle. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * class message
Cheryl you are really getting the hang of this. I am so impressed with the lineup. Will you or are you posting your speaker schedule? Vicki asks excellent questions. Next time I'll just listen and won't tie up a line. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * chat * stream * wow 2.0 * cheryl
A new version of SKYPE is on the air - version 3.0
Read this story from Kolabora News (my favorit "Guru" - Robin Good)
New design - and some new extras!
Do we need to make a new screencast about our way of using this program?
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I have just finished reading all the new blog posts. I still haven't even got the Skype lady recorded. I think I may be over my head for the time I have available. I am planning on sticking around and maybe I can find some open slots to work on this. I will continue to read what is happening with this very creative group. Keep up the good work everyone. Hope to post a success next time And I planned on joining the Webheads in January. Sure hope stuff slows down at work and home. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * recording
**Webcast Academy EuroMeeting 2
Thursday, Nov. 16, 200**6
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- The “round” - where are you? – what are your problems/solutions now?
- How can we best help others - in this little Euro-group?
- Reports on AVC – anyone learned more?
- Report on i-Sound from Niels
- Reflections on content in our coming podcasts – who want to do what?
- Round up – decision on meeting time – next week?
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Here is the URL tocheck the time for the meeting in your zone. (Thanks Niels).
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=11&yea...
Dennis
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I cannot attend a meeting on Thursday (nor on Sunday) as I am in Germany for a long working weekend. Webcasting has not crept to the top of my agenda yet, but rest assured that it will very soon (have been preparing for the German trip). I am not sure that my set-up at home (from where I am most likely to webcast) is fast enough for webcasting.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Pamela
Jeff, I think, kindly forwarded my message about the Power Gramo recording I made (by oversight rathan design). It's about 70-80 minutes long and mostly of historical interest only - we did not achieve much at the meeting. I have converted it from ogg to MP3, QUESTION...
What now? Should I really upload it anywhere, and if "Yes" where, how and how will those interested access it? Dennis
I believe another Euro mini-meeting is planned for this week, though it has not been announced yet. Thursday 19:00 'place' to be announced shortly.
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I just recently have been experimenting with Camstudio but the videoformat is too large so i have been looking for a good converting software...
I found Mediacoder which seem to cover several mediaformats and among them mp4. For you who want to make screencast maybe those software can come in handy... Taxonomy upgrade extras: * media video
I have already have learned alot and have met several new friends in this nice community that World Bridges and Webcast Acacdemy is.
I though must sadly slow down this. I have recently lost 25% of my income and really need to find a way to somehow get it back...
I probably have to start a company or something. Even though i have much knowledge about alot of things i have trouble getting someone to employ me...
At the moment i started an online magazine about Photo for beginners hoping to get medias attention and maybe through that get some work...
Since many of you work in schools it might be of intrest i used Wordpress open source blogging tool to create it. You can use wordpress for your school magazine too... Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy
When streaming on a Macintosh computer, you are going to encounter your own special challenges. I will include here the links to some of our discoveries here at the Webcast Academy. Please contact me if you have any questions or wish to Skype someone when in dire straights. You can contact me at any time for any reason but I am always messing around with Mac stuff so I enjoy problem solving. Happy Streaming!
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**Webcast Academy Meeting 1.3.5
Sunday, Nov. 19, 200**6
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- The Webcast Academy Moodle
- Open Troubleshooting
- Interncast Schedule (starting to produce shows with support of oldtimers, if necessary)
Chat Log Below
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Thank you Kathy for recommending Audio Hijack Pro. I have recorded a conversation with the Skype Lady. She is so fine, always available when we need here. If you are still having problems with recording Skype calls, stop fooling around and get Audio Hijack Pro. The free download works just fine. You only have to pay when you want to record more than 10 minutes. So there's lot's of functionality before paying for the product. I'm going to try out more features before I purchase, but hey, it works without any fuss. Well....when I first clicked on Skype >Record it said I needed to download additional software, but that took a second and I was off and running after rebooting Skype.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skype recording * Intern Assignments * hijack * Macintosh * Mac users * telephony recording skype * audio hijack pro * Mac OS X
Last Tuesday while I was staying in downtown Atlanta for the GaETC I listened in on and chatted with the WOW 2.0 women, cheryl, sharon, Jen and Vicki. The next day we tried to meet up but in a sea of 2000 it's hard to find someone you've never met. Coincidently, later that evening while relaxing and getting a bite to eat I found them (except Cheryl in ME) sitting right next to me! They fueled my fire and I'm now recruiting people for a webcast. I plan to do mine in January. This will give me time to collect the people, train them if need be and prepare an outline for the topic (TBD).Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcast * edtech * wow 2.0 * gaetc * Other Shows
Dear Jeff and Euro Team,
I have a Power Gramo recording of at least part of the meeting. I will post it as an historical document - documentation of a Skype echo problem!
On 18/11/06, Jeff Lebow jeff@worldbridges.com wrote:
Hello Euro Team ,
Delighted to hear that you had good meeting Thursday. Hope someone got a decent recording that can be posted.
Just wanted to mention
A) 1900kb down, 450kb up should be adequate for hosting a skype conf and streaming. It's comparable to what I get. CPU usage might be another issue.
B) Had an interesting discussion about the use of the Webcast Academy Moodle and other site management issues that may be of interest
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/598
C) Whenever you decide on a date/time for the next EuroMeeting, please do post it on the event calendar (Create Content/event) with a link to the global time. That way, interns who haven't been keeping up with posts will be able to see at a glance when it's happening.Happy Weekend to all,
JeffThanks for joining the MiniEuro Meeting last night – we were missing Andrew and Bengt – and Jeff
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Still confused where to post.
Present were Niels, who called the meeting, Sus and Anne from Denmark and me from Germany. Niels managed to stream our proceedings on sandpits A and B, plus record on Audacity. I started recording on Audacity, but had to switch off because it was interferring with other people's connection. I also recorded on Gramo - but there is nothing worth uploading anywhere.
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Started off as a Skypecast. Niels had trouble with other people trying to get in.
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Switched to an ordinary Skype conference.
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Sus had difficulties getting in.
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**Webcast Moodle Discussion
November 16, 2006
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Art, Doug, Brad, & Jeff discuss Webcast Academy organizational issues in general, and Moodle based courses in particular (see WebcastAcademy.com)
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My settings for a working system for recording AND streaming:
Soundcard: SigmaTel C-Major Audio v. 5.10.0.0.4255 (11.03.05)
USB-mic from Logitech – AK5379 – driver MS 5.1.2535.0 (01.07.01
Installed: full version of AVC – Audio Virtuel Cabels – or ask Jeff! + all programs form the webcas kit for windows
SYSTEM: WinXP professional v. 2002 - servicepak 2 -
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SpaceCast Episode #9 from our middle school elgg students (personallearningspace.com) contemplate some very important questions - "What is it like....." (to be 13 in Virginia, to be 14 in New York, for my mom to be 13). I know I would not want to be 13 again but listen in for some different opinions from Paul Allison, Lee Baber and Madeline Brownstone classrooms for a student cast session that is really starting to grow up. Teachers Teaching Teachers on Wednesday continue to discuss plans for the cast. We will be back on November 17th at 10:30 am EST -- 15:30 GMT. (Click here to subscribe to SpaceCast). Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * edtechtalk * personal_learning_space * SpaceCast * Teachers Teaching Teachers
Hi --- I was webcasting last week through an pa system -- so I was going directly into my soundcard via a 1/8 inch audio cable from the mixing board. I selected the Stereo Mix Audio Recording Control and put the volume up and was not getting any input from my sound card to Simplecast or Audacity. I panicked, restarted Simplecast, checked my audio settings -- nothing seemed to work. So I closed and opened Audacity, and then I saw that the microphone was selected in the audio input in Audacity. I changed that to Audio Mix and that fixed the problem.
So what does this all mean? I think that Audacity may take over some of your Audio settings on your computers, so checking the settings there before you start streaming is important. I hope that this helps some of you.
- Alex
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I am sad to say I still cannot record a call with the Skype Lady. I have talked to her so many times I am hearing her in my dreams. I felt like I was really making progress until I hit the wall with my SigmaTel sound card. When I access my sound properties, under the record option, I do not have the stereo mix option or the wave option. I did receive a link from this group for a different driver, but that did not work. That driver disabled all sound. It could have been that by the time I tried the new driver I had already installed (and paid for VAC). Since my desktop is new, I decided to contact Dell. After a long online chat and a phone call, Dell told me they had the solution, but if I wanted to know it would cost me $99.00.
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This is the 3rd webcast for Women of Web 2.0.
Cheryl was webcasting from Wells, ME, Jennifer, Vicki and Sharon were in Atlanta at the Georgia State Technology Conference.
We discussed blogging and different conference offerings. There were 20 people in the skypecast, and about 12 people in the Worldbridges Chat.
Thanks to Jeff and Dave for hosting this great opportunity. Thanks to all the listener.
I'll be posting to iTunes this week, so you will be able to RSS the podcast. Thanks for the suggestion.
Over and out,
Cheryl
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I just wanted to congratulate Alex and Arvind (et al) and Dave Cormier and Nancy White for one of the most engaging audio experiences I have ever encountered. The recording on EdTechTalk was mind blowing- from Alex's wonderful introduction (so powerful and so right) to the remarkable double-header performance by Dave and Nancy. The presentation style and use of audio in this NYCIST 2006 conference presentation (entitled 'The Eight Competencies of Online Interaction: What Should We Be Learning and Doing?') was perefect. The presentation was an example of how multiple voices create more than vocal ping pong when the potential for raport and personality is let loose. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * About the Academy NYCIST2006
Looks like Second Life is experiencing some growing pains. I wonder how long it will be before we see some significant (and highly restrictive) DRM creep it's way in-world?
Thanks to a remark from Bengt I have started testing out this amazing software: i-Sound WMA MP3 Recorder 6.60 Professional
Read more about this test - here in the webcastbook
Anyone like to try this out - and give a repport back in the WebCastBook?
Niels
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I have come to the conclusion that this class is really good for me. I have usually jumped into a project with both feet and after floundering around had success. This one is a real challenge. I started this week thinking I would finally get going. Only to find that VAC will not install on my home computer. I have it at work, but my XP machine here just chokes. I get a message that it can't copy a file to a particular folder because it can't find the path. However, the path is there - I'm stumped AGAIN. Besides that, today I couldn't even get one of the computers in a lab in one of my schools to work using USB headphones - the sound insisted on coming through both the headphones and the monitor speakers.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * reflections
I am beginning to realise that what I need to produce is a set of procedures which are tailored to my equipment and set-up. I also realise that, had I come to webcasting via the webcasting books available currently on the market then I probably would never have even attempted it, as the extracts of books currently available that I have seen sound sooo complicated. Anything published was probably written at least a couple of years ago and I guess things move fast.
I am also beginning to realise that it is highly over-ambitious to think that I could host a webcast before the end of the year. Since I had sound problems yesterday, all I could do was watch Jeff's desktop in the webhuddle. What an education! Constantly switching from one window to the other, adjusting this, adjusting that, keeping an eye on the other. Not sure I'm up to multi-tasking to that degree as well as keeping up my end of the conversation!
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I've added a new section to the webcastacademy.com Moodle site. There's now a wiki in the course I thought we could use as a group to flesh out what the course should include (and as an easy way for me to start identifying the lesson sections in the site.
Since this is supposed to be a collaborative effort, I'd like to identify people who are willing to help generate the content for the lessons so we can start building this out. I'm not sure who mentioned it during Sunday's call, but creating a self-study series of lessons in combination with classroom style lessons is an excellent idea for adult education in my book.
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In the process of traversing the learning curve for the Webcast Academy I've come to some observations not of the technical bent but of the philosophical one. My technical background allows me the latitude to tackle the more complex implementation requirements for the system setups, but I can see this being a very high price of admission for non-technical educators making the jump into this space. The classic debate of "digital natives vs. digital immigrants" personifies, to me at least, the audiences that will have a higher likelihood of success as compared to those likely to struggle.
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I was finally able to successfully record both sides of a Skypecast recently, and during the trials and tribulations of configuring the system, I came up with a way to do it without the wonderful in-ear echo that you sometimes get.
The configuration only takes Audacity, Skype, three Virtual Audio Cables, and four Audio Repeaters. (I say only with a bit of sarcasm.)
Here's a flow showing how this "series of tubes" gets plumbed:
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1100863/L
I'll try and explain in detail how this works in my next post. For now, think about the virtual audio cables as reaTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * Audacity * Skype * recording
**Meeting 1.3.4
November 12, 2006**
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Agenda
- Introduction/Opening
- Share Good / Bad Experience using Audacity
- How do VAC really work? (Diagram of VAC)
- Skypecast Control- New Screencast about Skypecasting
- Bandwidth Concerns
- Brainstorm how to use Webcast - Bring at least one good idea.
- Share experience with trying streaming
- Questions and word is free
Chat Log Below
Tags: * webcast * class of 1.3
Hello all,
This is for the mac side of webcasting interns:
While in Skype Beta 2.0.0.2:
If you are in a conference with some folks and want to bring in a skypecast:
Go to the skypecast you have created as the HOST. Join then press HOLD in skype, go back to the skype group you had already established, look towards the bottom of the group and find a drop down menu, select add to conference, choose the skypecast and then you will have both the skypecast as well as the skype.
Now, true to SKYPE, this will not always work as listed. If so, quit SKYPE and go in again. The moral of this story, set up your webcast at least 15 to 30 min. ahead of time. make your skypecast go much longer than you intend.
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I must apologize - we are in the process of building a new home (bermed passive solar) - and were living in a travel trailer on the lot. The winter comes early in Maine and last weekend we had no choice but to move into the partially finished home. (anyone interested can check at http://bettsberm.blogspot.com) Anyway - I have had no internet for over a week - obviously, no posts or progress on webcasting. I am going to try to play catch up in the next 2 weeks or so. Can't wait to read (and listen) to what has been happening. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * participation
Once again, failed to stream, using Simple Cast.
I have asked before - What should I see in the encoder window?? I see two identical entries beginning: Format MP3 64 kb/s 44 kh.
In the description column, I see 100.
After logging in with userid and pwd, I appear to be connected for an instant, but am immediately disconnected.
I have a regular webcast in mind: " Talking to teachers" - but I simply cannot get started. If anyone has been where I am now, I would love to hear from you so that I can move on. I am from the last intake, not the current one!
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Anne, Andrew, Niels, Jeff and others.
Just had to cancel proposed Skypecast on streaming. I was concentrating so hard on the virtual world I had overlooked an unavoidable appointment in the real world. Can we negotiate another time, or just meet next week?
My email is:
djn@dennisnewson.de
I will post a copy of this to some of you at your Skype chat.
Dennis
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How is AVC working - that is the big question?
When we use recording with Audacity - AVC is "just there" somehow - and we DO use the Audio Repeater to transmitt our USB-mic.
BUT I tryed to use line out from SKYPE - connecting the "virtuel cable 1 out" and transfeer the sound to Audacity via - "virtuel cable 1 inn"
Its working! - the sound is transmitting (but I lost my sound from SKYPE?
Is VACs idea to combine (out- and inn devises) (in this way)in programs we wanted to be connected? - or....Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast Academy Meeting * AVC
Thanks to Bengt - and Jeff - I am up recording in Audacity - and webcasting to Sandbox A and B - with SimpleCast - nice and clean! The first webcast was a talk with Anne Fox in Denmark - yesterday! BUT - a couple of small problems I still have to solve: (who can help?)
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Using my Logitech AK 5370 - I have problems with the soundlevel. i Audacity is seem to be very low - but Anne told me its HEIGH in SKYPE? She (and the SKYPE-lady) is comming in (too) HIGH i Audacity.
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How to prepare SAM (its realy a nice program :-) for transmitting from the soundcard and from the USB-MIC - (easy with Simplecast in the Config) - but I dont find where to Config SAM for that?
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I am testing out how to webcast a live session from my OPAL web-room. Normaly we do all programs ON-LINE with a recording (and convert this to a MP3-file after), but there must be a solution to get this broadcasted via a stream at the same time, I am sure?
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Well, I may be a slow learner but I don't give up that easily. Pure envy spurred me on. It was Andrew's recent success coupled with the two screen casts that got me to try, try again. I think one of my problems may have been the mic. I switched to the AK... and plugged in some cheap headphones and grappled with the settings while watching the screencasts repeatedly. My settings are as follows:
- Audacity/Edit/Preferences/Sigma Tel Audio for Playback and Record
- Volume Control/Sigma Tel Audio
- Record Control/Sigma Tel Audio/Stereo Mix/box checked
- Skype/Tools/Sound Devices/AK..In, Sigma Tel Audio out
- VAC repeater/Wave-in, Sigma Tel Audio, Wave-out, Sigma Tel Audio
- Bit rate 22, Total Buffer 100, Buffer 16
Now that it's set in stone I am looking forward to the Sunday meeting. BTW I have posted a screenshot of my successful settings along with my failed attempts with my other mic, on the my google docs. Thank you Jeff and Andrew!
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I feel like the academy awards, I want to thank Jeff Lebow for always being in the wings, supporting, encouraging and cheerleading!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * intern * women of web 2.0
Hi All,
I'm using a very unreliable connection tonight - I'm around to meet but I won't be able to take on any facilitating roles for Skype Conferences, WebHuddles or Vyews.
Perhaps there's someone who wants to share their progress?
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Wow, does it have to be so hard?????
I think it's the many menus you have to open, the strange software you pluck about in and the constant anxiety of just not knowing for sure that you're doing all the steps right!
I found the rally's from the group very helpful in spurring me on - Kathy's blog posts, Paradox's CMap guide, and Jeff's Screencast... But boy, did I put on mileage around the net, as well! Most of the information was old though and they used more confusing set ups then what is suggested in our book of Webcasting.
I'm feeling now that I may not have needed to purchase VAC - the trial version may have suited me for this round...But DEFINITELY, the tipping point for me was purchasing the USB microphone. Most of my trials and tribulations occured before I had the USB Microphone, I thought I had heard or read somewhere that we didn't need to buy one..... I decided that I'd go forth and PURCHASE... towards the end of the day and PRESTO!!! not long after that, I got everything to work - Perhaps I was just a better tinker-er by than!
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Well the Eurozone set out to record both ends of a Skype call using Virtual Audio Cables and I can report success from my end. So Anne and Dennis I can talk through this with you - and indeed anyone else. However I found Jeff's original screencast having done this!. (Had this disappeared for a while?)
Anyway, I created my own shorter version screencast. In Jeff's there are some handy tips so if you haven't seen it, check it out.
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Jeff gave me the mission to create an Agenda for Sunday 12/11.
I did so and have attached a picture of it.
- Introduction/Opening
- Share Good / Bad Experience using Audacity
- How do VAC really work? (Diagram of VAC)
- Brainstorm how to use Webcast - Bring at least one good idea.
- Share experience with trying streaming
- Questions and word is free Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skypecast
I have tried everything I can think of to get my recording capbabilities working on my desktop and my laptop to no avail. I just wrote to PowerGramo and asked if the purchase version of their program is able to record SkypeCasts. The answer is YES! It's $19.99 and works from any computer when you log into Skype. I plan to buy it and save a few headaches and a few more hours of experimenting. I envy those of you who have been able to figure it out. I'm sorry this sounds like a commercial. Perhaps those of you who might be considering this oprion should wait until I put it to the test.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * skypecast recording * power gramo
We had our first Eurozone meeting last night - sort of. Present, apart from me, were Anne Fox, Andrew Middleton and a bit later, saving the day, Jeff. It was the first Skype conference I had called and I realised, too late, that I didn't even know how to admit participants properly. Lesson 1 - Learn how to use Skype for conferences. I had planned for us to go to Huddle, but we didn't get there.
Nonetheless, we did manage to talk about virtual audio cables and we plan to make a screencast demonstrating how at least one of us has managed to configure everything correctly and stream, using one of the two sandpits.
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Recording from Webcast Academy 1.3 euro mini meeting 06 Nov 06. Participants include Anne Fox, Dennis Newson, Andrew Middleton, Jeff Lebow. The recording is made in two parts. Participants encountered difficulties with Skype, and agreed to work together in understanding how Virtual Audio Cables fit into the Webcasting equation.Categories: * meeting eurointerns
We've have just finished our Euro-mini meeting and we encountered several difficulties, but here's the good news! Jeff joined us and talked through the recording both ends task. In Windows,
- Start > Virtual Audio Cables > Audio Repeater
- Wave In: select your USB mic
- Wave out: select the Stereo Mix (or WhatUHear) of your soundcard
- In Audacity select Stereo Mix (or WhatUHear) as source
- Hit record!
Dennis, Anne and myself will record a screencast of this process too.
However, there was a question about whether we need the USB mic in this operation. Anne and I both noted that we have an external audio interface in addition to our internal soundcards. Optionally we think it ought to be possible to use those.
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We meet in just over 15 minutes. My Skype account is:
osnacantab
Dennis
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**Webcast Academy Meeting 1.3.3
Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006
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Tags: * webcast * class of 1.3 Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
Shall we all (Class of 1.3) share our Skype names? I find it handy to see when a fellow classmate is online and it will help to build community and create more opportunities for collaboration and mutual help. I have had a couple of good spontaneous side type-chats with Andrew and Niels.
My skype name is: madeline_here
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Is it possible that the Webcast Academy pages were created for a 17" or larger screen? I find it awkward to have to scroll both up/down left/right to see a full page when viewing the site on a 14" iBook. Is it me? It does NOT happen on worldbridges.net (it resizes with my screen). Or is it something outside my control? Sorry to sound like I'm complaining, I am ever so grateful for all the people behind the scenes who are making this happen.
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I spent a good deal of time today experimenting with my audio settings. A record of what I've done can be found in Google documents and spreadsheets
I used screenshoots to illustrate the settings I used. If you would like to collaborate on this document just send me your email address and I will invite you to collaborate. We may actually come up with something useful.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Audacity * Skype * VAC * windows * screenshots * settings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcasting
... just thought we ought to know :-)
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This page is using Drupal for the content management. One thing that I'm struggling with here in Drupal is whether I should post in my own blog, or start a New Forum Thread.
Tagging could help make new constellations of postings. I found the tag cloud (in left menu), which helped me locate some topics, sorted in new blends. Could we develop a list of instantly suggested tags(such as when I tag in delicious) - A certain consistency in our shared tagging would ease the growing of fatter tags in the cloud. See what I mean?
I'm sure I've not yet revealed and understood all necessary details about how to use Drupal - but it has a neat overview structure and I find it quite easy to create new content. However,I discovered that I am not allowed to create a nrew Forum, so I decided I would post it just here in my blog. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast Academy Meeting * tagging * drupal * moodle
Last Sunday i was struggling with having too many open windows with just one monitor. I'm currently working from my stationary PC but whan I was more frequently using my powerbook laptop, I enjoyed connecting a secondary monitor. And I do have two 19" monitors, so what am I waiting for!
Bengt sent me some information about connecting dual monitors to a PC and I felt encouraged to work on this problem. It came out to be quite easy! My PC has an nVidia Video board with DVI-I dual link. I figured out that I needed a DVI male -VGA female 15 pin adaptor. All I needed was to locate a vendor here in Denmark. Then ,I had to find the Monitor preferences and do the correct settings for primary and secondary monitor. Now it works well, and I am happy as a child.
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Greetings those who would like to do a copycat meeting of last Wednesday's, which was at 01:30 GMT. (To make it clear - We won't be able to copy what that meeting did - different people with different competencies). Just to be definite, I'd like to suggest this coming
Monday 6 November
19:00 GMT
(If that isn't possible for someone, write so we can negotiate).
I suggest we do a mini Skype conference first, which I will start, and then plan to go to Huddle, if that seems worthwhile.
As I've noted before, my primary aim is to get help streaming. (Someone wrote that Huddle enables one to see particpants' desktops. That sounds interesting in this context, and potentially helpful.)
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It's time I posted about our Small Group Meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 1st, 20:30 EST.
I got a little nervous when 8:20pm rolled around and noone had poked their head in the webhuddle area but then soon after, names started appearing....whew, first hurdle over. I was thankful that Kathy took the reigns quickly and although she had never done a Skype conference before, she threw caution to the wind and set one up. Jeff also bridged from one skype conference (I believe) to Kathy's which I thought was very impressive but soon we all just stayed in Kathy's conference.
I learned alot about Skype Conferencing by listening to Kathy and Jeff set things up. I also discovered that my audio was causing grief to others so I had to be 'muted'....then eventually, when I tried to fix my audio, I completed turned myself off...well, audio-wise that is! We trouble-shooted using WebHuddle for a bit, where I showed my settings and others provided advice... and then Jeff suggested that I shut down Skype and come back...this did the trick, I was vocal again!
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Upon saving my previous post, the abovTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * error_ * message
Thanks for the link to the tutorials (Audacity). I am working on going through them. I still need to get my act together and attempt a recording of both ends of a conversation. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * thank-you Audacity tutorials
Webcasting Setup: I thought I'd start my webcasters report with how I recorded my introduction.
H/W setup:
HP nx6120 notebook
60 GB HDD/1.25 GB RAM/15" TFT display
I used a reguler ($5) mic, that went into mic port of the laptop.
For recording I used Audacity, and set the sound source to 'Microphone' (The sound source appears on the controls at the top of the window just besides the volume settings).
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You probably hear that phrase too often but I assure you it is heartfelt. Last night was very exciting for several reasons. Susan set up a WebHuddle and I set up a SkypeCast. for the first time. We all started in a WebHuddle chat and then migrated to the Skypecast. I learned that the Skype control panel participant list can come and go but the audio remains connected. I also learned why it's important to mute first because anyone can join your Skypecast and you don't always want to hear what they have to say! The great thing about webhuddle was being able to view participant's desktops.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Skype * skypecast recording * intern * webhuddle
Aside from some of the normal technical issues we run into running so many collaborative web apps at one time I think last night was a good first Wednesday night session. Some of the things we came out with:
- Always start your Skypecasts with visitors muted by default
- Everyone should take time to get familiar with their friendly neighborhood sound card settings
- We're going to set up a Moodle space under webcastacademy.com to help with the process of getting through the course requirements in a logical and organized manner
- Hosting a show is much easier when you have a partner acting as your "engineer"
- Susan did a great job!
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I'm thinking aloud here, but if you have any thoughts please comment.
I've recently bought a new, fairly high spec PC running Windows XP SP2. I have three sound capture devices attached: a SoundMax internal card that came with the PC, a Soundblaster Audigy that I've just added and an M-Audio Firewire 410 audio interface, which I have to record my own music. Sounds complicated. Now I also have Virtual Audio Cables which I suppose falls into this list. (VAC keeps saying "Test" btw?)
I was having problems with the SoundMax, hence the addition of the Audigy. The Firewire interface I regard as a separate issue. Everything can work - I just don't know when it will and when it will fail. I was in at the beginning of the small group meeting last night on the Skypecast and had tested Skype with our friend the Skype Lady before the meet. Everything was OK. Previously I had been using the Java-based Elluminate environment to play back some conference sessions. During our meeting I had Web Huddle running.
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News today that a new version of Audacity is available which 'contains dozens of new features and capabilities' including 92 LADSPA plug-ins for Windows. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Taxonomy upgrade extras: * software * Audacity
Webcast Academy Meeting 1.3.2**Sunday, Oct. 29
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Chat Log Below
Tags: * webcast * class of 1.3 Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
I am having a lot of trouble getting organized and finding the correct support materials. I am an old math / science / programming teacher and the chaos is had to embrace. Any ideas to help me out? SharonTaxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * organization
First sorry to miss you all last Sunday - as a penance I'm going to get up at 1.30am tonight to join whoever manages the 8.30 EST mini-meet.
But the great news is I did take part on Sunday - albeit asynchronously. Like the student who sends their tape recorder to the lecture, there is always the danger that I may never appear and take part in real time again, but I'm missing you all already. This is why the webcast/podcast model is a valid, valuable approach. As participants I think we understand the significance of the social value of using this technology. The social aspect therefore is equally about the need/desire to give as well as take (or listen).
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Hello all,
There is going to be a small group meeting on Wednesday Nov. 1st at 8:30pm EST for WebCast Academy Interns. Global times are listed here.
Okay, that was easy... announcing the meeting was simple... but where do will we actually "meet"??? I've checked the Book of Webcasting for some hints about these small group meetings and there wasn't a listing so I think we're on our own here and you definitely don't want me leading!! I participated in my first Skypecast on Sunday!...or was that a conference???...sheesh, so many terms to learn...
Anyway, I'm just going to jump in and say let's 'meet' in a webhuddle meeting spot. Here are the directions:
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At 8:30pm EST (Wed.Nov.1st) go to: http://www.webhuddle.com/
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Click on "Join Meeting" at the top of the page.
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Complete the form on the "Join" page by using my email address - sl_info@yahoo.com and the password 'smallgroup' (without the quotes).
In the WebHuddle, I will initiate VOIP (Audio) and recording the session. We will start off by using the chat (since I'm unsure the audio will work) and do demonstrations if need be (see topic #2 below) - I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will drop by and 'offer' to create some skype-thingy that we can join (I believe we will have better audio but I'm really unsure)....otherwise, I will try my best to become a 'skyper' on the spot.
Agenda Items (thus far......please add additional things you would like to cover under the Wednesday meeting thread here: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/484 ) -
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Round Robin on how everybody's doing - what's been fun and what's been frrruusstt...not so fun.
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Tips, Tricks, Walk-throughs on How to record both sides of a Skype Call.
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Next Time to meet (and suggested improvements, meeting techniques, etc).
I'm thinking we'll be together for about an hour and half or so.
A few other things.....
During Sunday's meeting, Jeff created a table for the 1.3 interns whereby you can add an "X" to keep track of the things you've done and see the things you have yet to do... You can check it out here: http://www.webcastacademy.net/Class_of_1.3
At this page, you can select the "edit" tab and an "X" under the column of the task you have completed.
You can see Art's minutes from the Sunday's meeting here: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/500
Paradox66 (sorry I don't know your 'other' name) has created a wikispace and has invited all interns to share the space with knowledge and mindmaps - Here is the link announcing this endeavour: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/500 and the wiki link is here: http://webcastclass.wikispaces.com/
Well that's about it... hope to 'see' some of you Wednesday night (EST) in the 'huddle'.
Sue
Skype ID - sl_info
Newsletter: * Webcast Academy Intern Newsletter Taxonomy upgrade extras: * WCA Small Group
I missed the sunday meeting because I was out of town for a family function and could not possibly log in to join the group. Now I am scrambling to catch up. Have downloaded the mp3 file and will listen to what transpired and catch up on the conversations in print here, there and everywhere. Information seems scattered all over the place. I'm trying to find time to focus enough to catch the gist of the organization that I fear is not really here given the infinite expansion possibilities of the communication tools we are using. :-)
Here are a couple of my students podcasting on Tuesday afternoon. Hey! if they can do it, so can I.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * Webcast Academy Meeting
I don't give up easily but I stubbornly attempt to accomplish tasks without fully comprehending the instructions. So when I tried to get the vac working I ran into a problem. I had Skype on, Audacity up, and vac open. I chose cable 1 in Audacity and compared all the settings. I took a phone call, activated the vac and then pressed record in Adacity. It appeared to be recording but the resulting audio file seemed more like a transmission from another planet. I plan to re-read the directions and try again, but if anyone has already overcome this obsticle, please share your secrets with me and anyone else who may be wondering too.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio setup * Intern Assignments * intern * technology * VAC
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I was thinking that we could make a Wiki where we share our knowledge and gather our learningprocess at one place. I call it Webcastclass. I made my own page with a mind map and some thoughts.
Since there is a RSS you can follow the process as other put their pages up...
Then everyone can use their own favorite-program to make their mindmap...Taxonomy upgrade extras: * wiki
Brad Hicks and Paul Reid will be webcasting for the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia's (ECAWA) state conference on Monday the 6th of November. The topic for the webcast will be 'What is the current state of ICT's in education and what can we predict for the future?' The webcast will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. West Australian time (GMT + 8).
We would like to have a number of overseas participants join us for this webcast. We believe that international participants will add to the scope of the discussion and also demonstrate the power of webcasting as a forum for collaborative discussion. If you are able to join us for this discussion I would appreciate confirmation of your participation by e-mailing Brad at contact@web2learn.net
Please refer to the attached document for a rough outline of some of the issues that might be discussed during this webcast. The support of the webcasting community would be greatly appreciated. Coversion for local times can be found here
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Has anyone tried a multiple mic and headphone setup? Will be webcasting from a conference next week and may have more than two presenters at the computer that will be streaming. In the past I have manged 2 presenters with a shared USB mic and an RCA splitter for the headphones. So if anyone has any suggestions I'd be interested to hear. And just to make it more interesting - I'll be working on a Mac :-) (but would be interested to hear PC solutions too). Taxonomy upgrade extras: * webcasting * technical setup
I’m listening to the recording of the meeting and taking notes as I go through of the sudden outbursts I would normally share with people in a meeting. Luckily you only get subjected to the sudden bursts of typing, nothing more.
Certification
I like the idea but we would need to make sure that if people are going to use the certification as part of their professional development there needs to be a way to demonstrate the value of the certificate contents and what it took to earn them. A thought is to create a screencast presentation (5 minutes, no more) of the content of the certification that can be used to explain to anyone what the cert. means and what it took to get it. We could work on that as a group and make it part of the final class project.
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Is anyone available on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 -7:30 or 8:30-10:00 EST to talk about our assignments? Taxonomy upgrade extras: * group * wednesday * 1.3
Oh dear. I made my recording in Audacity while we had our webcast session, strongly encouraged by Jeff. I managed to clean out some stuttering and uhms. Then I struggled for quite a while to locate the lame file, which has to be done from inside Audacity when you wish to convert from the .aup format to mp3. I knew this would be tricky as I've had this silly problem before. People have tried patiently to walk me through this, but with no succes - until now!
I don't know why it was not unzipped properly in the Aucatity program folder as I wanted it to, and my Search skills are poor with the Windows PC for some reason (being a mac user by origin) At last I thought of opening the EasyZip folder - and there inside ! yes yes yes! I found the much desired Lame folder! No problem :-) Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introduction * Intern Assignments
Dennis writing. I was/am a member of 2.1 but I was away for well over 4 weeks. Can I carry on trying to stream - so far unsuccessful - so that I can complete the training course?
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I hope you have enjoyed my Danish presentation in Camtasia - here is a litte presentation in English
Looking forward to know you all. Download file(597 Kb)
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Any suggestions/recommendations on software for recording screencasts for playback by users through a web site? I'm not looking for real time playback, but rather for training of adult ed students on technical processes.Taxonomy upgrade extras: * screencasts
October 28, 2006 Newsletter
Dear Webcast Academy Interns and Registrants,
Thanks to the Class of 1.3 for a great first week of the session. For those who are interested in becoming interns, but have not yet registered or become active, it's still not too late - this is a last call to join the class of 1.x. If you would like to be considered part of The Webcast Academy Class of 1.x, you need to post an audio introduction by Nov. 1, 11:59pmGMT. In order to receive the necessary posting privileges, you will need to have posted a short note on this forum thread expressing your interest.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the community and learn whatever they can from the Webcast Academy site, but only 1.x interns will be able to stream from the Webcast Academy Sandbox Channels and be eligible to receive webcasting certification during the upcoming 1st Academy Certification Council . For a discussion about what that means and how to begin posting to your Webcaster Portfolio, please tune in to Webcast Academy Meeting 1.3.2 or listen to the recording. The Class of 2.x is scheduled to begin early in 2007, but the certification council will not meet again for at least 6 months.
At the bottom of this note is a list of those who have applied to be part of the Class of 1.x and those who have posted audio introductions. If you've posted an audio introduction, but it is not noted, please send a quick email with a link to the mp3 file to academy@webcastacademy.net
Members of the Classes of 1.1 and 1.2, if you have not posted your introductions, please do so if you'd like to receive certification at the upcoming council.
There are two meetings coming up on Sunday, Oct. 29
Please note that daylight savings time ends tonight in many time zones, so we may need to re-adjust our internal GMT calculators.
Brad will be hosting a Mac users session at either either noon or 1pm GMT - stay tuned to the event listing for clarification.
I will be hosting a general meeting at 9amPST/noonEST/5pmGMT (global times).
The agenda includes: Posting Guide, ID3Tags, Info about the Station Module Automatic Archive Update, 1.3 Learning Plan, Open Workshop - Q&A, Troubleshooting
For those who have not yet listened to Meeting 1.3.1, we discussed having mini-meetings and workshops at other times. All 1.x interns are welcome to schedule and host gatherings at any time. To do so, simply click 'Create Content/event'. You can also send a newsletter out to other interns by clicking 'create content/ newsletter) and selecting 'Webcast Academy Intern Newsletter'.
Thanks again to all those who've made the Academy such an interesting place to learn,
Jeff
----current list of interns and audio introductions-----
It's not too late to add your name....
Class of 1.1
- Paul Allison
- Lee Baber
- Dave Cormier
- Dugar
- Conrad Dwojak
- Susan Ettenheim
- Jeff Flynn
- Brad Hicks
- Jeff Lebow
- Tim McKean
- Alex Ragone
- Vance Stevens
- Bonnie Stewart
- Graham Stanley
- Doug Symington
Class of 1.2
- Tim Fredrick
- Cheryl Oakes
- Jason Robertshaw
- Paul Ellerman
- Elderbob Brannon
- Dennis Newson
- David Baron
- Alice Barr
- Paul Reid
- Randy Ziegenfuss
- Trevor Shanklin
- Carla Arena
- Jose Rodriguez
- Erika Cruvinel
- Arvind Grover
- Miguel Guhlin
- Liz Drake
- Tsylla Balbino
- Parag Shah
Class of 1.3
- Niels Damgaard
- Susanne Nyrop
- Andrew Middleton
- JenniferW
- Bengt Båvegård
- Art Gelwicks
- Salmanbas
- Madeline Brownstone
- Sharon Betts
- Kyi_Shwin
- Marilyn Jimenez
- sendkathy
- Jeff Jones
- Dusten
- Anne Fox
- Cathy Evanoff
- Sarah Hansen
- Thupten Nyima
- Sue Lister
- Buthaina
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Since when we had our webcast i run into Open Learn from Open University...
And their tool Compendium is an easy way to do Mindmaps. They also save in XML and it is programmed in Java so it is not plattformdependent..
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
and their Labspace
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/
Screencast for Compendium
http://compendium.open.ac.uk/openlearn/screencasts/index.html
With Compendium we could give our image of the process...
Maybe if everyone do a mindmap so they themself get their clearview of the process. And everyone presenting their mindmap would give everyones view of the process...
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This is my official entry as a 1.3 intern... hi everyone, sorry I missed the Sunday meeting - I'm planning to be online this Sunday with you.
I'm very happy with the global aspect of our class and look forward to learning much from everyone!
You can hear a little about me on my introductory audio (1min30sec):
Download MP3 (706 kb, 1:30)
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Hello Jeff,
Things work now..Thanks so much for your support!
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If you're like me and like to add a little musical action to your recordings, I'd suggest clicking over to splicemusic.com to create your own sampled MP3 files. I'll post one as soon as it's ready...but not before it's time.
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My introduction for the Webcast Academy. Made using Audacity Portable.
Download MP3 (1.58 MB) 3:27min
Listen here - 1.58 MB 3:27min Just a side note to all you interns so you don't struggle with this like I did. Make sure that your input format is set to Full HTML rather than Filtered HTML if you're trying to embed a Flash player in your posting. It works much, much better that way!
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SpaceCast Episode #7 is edited and ready to go. This is one of the better live events for our middle school elgg students (personallearningspace.com) this school year. Paul Allison and I joined Madeline Brownstone for a nice student cast session. The students are starting to get more comfortable with webcasting and seem to be more themselves. We will be discussing ways to help the comfort zone grow for the students and how to guide but not interfere with their "space" and dynamics during the Teachers Teaching Teachers Wednesday. We will skip this week's webcast but will be back on November 3rd at 10:30 am EST. (Click here to subscribe to SpaceCast) I will add one thing about this recording. I had originally set it up for my iTunes Podcast and it was an m4a. Since that is a really large file, I sent it to audacity, then iTunes, then converted it to mp3 again. Well, when editing I had cut some pieces out and left the holes of silence. I forgot to join them before my series of exports since I was teaching and doing this at the same time. As a result you will hear some very obvious audio editing flaws. I am not sure I will fix it right away with more work to do before going back so excuse the quality! Oh my, just another day in the audio editing merry-go-round!
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I have been giving some thought to how I could make use of webcasting skills. The first option which springs immediately to mind is in our Absolutely Intercultural podcasts. I wouldn't want every episode to be a webcast but I can see a place for occasional webcasting on that format.
I have just been asked to lead a project about experiential learning in which I have to deliver inspiring teacher training courses in that area so that struck me as one of the sub-projects my participants could do.
I am also project leader for a European project developing mentor training materials and I had already decided that we would have some online training sessions prior to our next meeting in March and so it is possible that these sessions could be in the form of a webcast.
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Well it seems that I didn't upload the file last time. So here we go again.
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My introductory post for Webcast Academy. I am part of the class of 1.3.
Below I am testing the free Flash audio player from del.icio.us: arvind's audio introduction
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In preparing my short recording for my intro I mixed down what had been a stereo recording but everytime I opened the file after saving it, it was back to stereo. Strange, I do this all the time but this time it just didn't seem to want to allow me to edit it down to mono. I'll be interested to see what I sent out, mono or stereo?
Experiment with recording both ends of a Skype call? Is it cheating to use Pamela? This is a sKYPE ADD-ON which I use. I paid about 15 $ for it and it seems to work well enough once you have got the trick of dampening down the sound of the caller so that the person you're calling can be heard properly.
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Here is my intro recording, unedited. My challenge is going to be sounding coherent live so I challenged myself to see if I could record something which could go out as is.
A long time ago I used to do something which I think is peculiarly British and that is hospital radio (people joked that people felt worse rather than better after listening to hospital radio) so I have a little experience of live performance (apart from teaching of course!). I also did a couple of radio interviews, again a very long time ago bit the interesting thing was that the live interview went far better than the interview which I knew was being recorded where I ended up straying off the subject rather badly.
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Hello All,
Very much enjoying the audio introductions. Just want to let you konw that I'm aware of the glitch that is leading to double posting of most introductions. Looking in to it know - should have it sorted out soon. In the meantime, please do take a look at the ID3 Tags screencast - noticing a lot of untagged audio. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * audio module * Other Shows
**Webcast Academy Meeting 1.3.1
Sunday, Oct. 22
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Meeting Notes
- Welcome, Introductions (see left side block for direct links)
- Site Orientation - Posting blog entry, event, audio, and comments, editing book pages, rich text vs. xinha Relevant Screencasts: Basic Audio Posting
How to create audio download link and flash player * Audio Specifications - bitrate, ID3Tags, filenamesHow to deal with ID3 tags Screencast * Development of a 1.3 Learning Plan Stay tuned * Assignments
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Record and post a short introduction on your Webcast Academy blog
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Start experimenting with recording both ends of a skype call
- Coming Soon - The Webcast Academy in Second Life
Chat Transcript and Show Announcement Newsletter Below
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I have, skype,simplecast and audacity but haven't managed to install vac.
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I am finally getting around to trying to use the flash player in my post. The audio is nothing new. download mp3
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Here I am for the moment - The MP3 file is comming!
While your are waiting please enjoy my Danish presentation and train your Danish! Its recorded in the program Camtasia. I am using this program making small videos to teach my students how to use the library-systems and the net.
Danish presentation
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Thank you for listening to my introduction.
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I am posting again, I saw it, but here it is again. Intro to Popcorn Conversation.
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A short message from me. I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
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You can listen to my audiointroduction now...
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This is really going to be challenging. Here is my introduction
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I was not able to download the beta version of Audacity. Will try again later. So here is my intro in the old version.
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Here is a little audio I created to help explain the use of a compressor in audio editing.
~lee
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Hello all, I had no idea when I began my webcast academy that I would be finishing up with a weekly show, starting November 7, 2006, 9 PM, on the worldbridges network. Thanks to Jeff and Dave for this opportunity. Thanks to the wonderful audience we seem to have dragged with us and a special thanks to the women, Sharon Peters, Jennifer Wagner and Vicki Davis, who with Cheryl Oakes make up Women of Web 2.0.
This will be a journey, join in the conversation as we travel the planet.
Thanks to Derek Miller for his podsafe music which is used in the intro and outro.
I'll be back with the show, right now it is too big topost.
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Webcast Academy Open HouseInformation about the Upcoming Class of 1.3
October 15, 2006
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Hey Folks... Just listened to the Geek!Ed! podcast and they mentioned that they have a gear page that explains their equipment. Here's the link:
http://coverpage.pcs.k12.mi.us/geeked/?page_id=102
I think I'm going to get one of their recommended SnowBall microphones as I really need a unidirectional unit. I'll let you know how it goes.
Hope everyone is having a good webcastathon weekend!
Cheers.
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SpaceCast Episode #5 is edited and ready to go. This is our first live event for our middle school elgg students (personallearningspace.com) this school year. After being recorded live on air, I had to edit some choice items but it is still entertaining.
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In a recent post, Leigh Blackall talks about the decentralization of education. He shows a vision where learning is freely available to all through the best teachers on the Internet.
This can be made possible if teachers loosen their coupling with institutions and create an independant prescence on the web. Each teacher shares her research interests, and findings with everyone over her blog, podcasts and the like. Teachers also build communities of learning on their website. Learning is promoted by conversations; synchronous and asynchronous. By giving assignments and publishing micro-contents that explain various concepts in the form of text, audio, video.
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Hey folks. New tool just got set up. So far, it looks like a step in the right direction. I'd be very interested to see what you folks make of it. http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/06_10/slideshare%20techcrunch.html
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Class of 1.3
This will be the last 1.x class at the Academy (Class 2.1 will be beginning in early January). If you are interested in joining the Class of 1.3, please fill out the 'Webcast Apprentice' portion of your Webcast Academy Profile and post a comment in the Apply for Class of 1.3 Forum thread indicating your interest in joining. If you have any questions, please post them in the About the Academy Forums, so everyone at the academy can share in the info exchange.
What does it mean to become an intern?
Interns are expected to work collaboratively with other members of the Academy community, contribute to the development of training resources, and eventually produce and publish at least three live, interactive webcasts. We're a pretty 'low-pressure' environment, but we do ask that interns be willing to invest a couple hours/week during their internship. All materials produced at the Academy (and all Worldbridges sites) are released with a Creative Commons license There is no fee for participating and no official commitment after you complete your internship, but we hope that graduated interns will remain part of the community, assisting future classes and possibly webcasting somewhere on the Worldbridges network. Everyone is welcome to join, although if we receive more applicants than we can handle, priority will be given to those interested in webcasting 'Worldbridgy' kind of content - that is educational, collaborative, and/or inter-cultural.
The first Class of 1.3 sessions will be scheduled the week of Oct. 16-22.
We will have at least one meeting on Sunday Oct. 22 at 4pmGMT. If other interns are available to host and/or stream meetings at other times, that would be great. Please post an event.
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In a recent post I described my experiment with live online training.
Anyone who has tried recording both ends of an audio conversation would know that the voice of the person on machine the recrding is being done gets recorded significantly louder than the other participants. Leveling this difference is a manual process where we normalize and amplify certain sections in Audacity.
A new tool called Levelator automates this process. You give it a WAV file, and it gives back a leveled WAV file. It does work and pretty well too.
The best part is: it's free for non commercial use.
The software is available at http://www.gigavox.com/levelatorDownload/
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**Academy Meeting 1.2.8
Oct. 1, 2006
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Chat Transcript Below
Categories: * webcast * Webcast Academy Meeting * webcastathon
**Academy Meeting 1.2.8
Oct. 1, 2006
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10/1/06 09:27:07 Adam: hi all
10/1/06 10:52:45 Jeff: http://vyew.com/v0.30U/content/sm_main.php?mid=086346
10/1/06 11:05:26 Jeff: Hi Jason
10/1/06 11:05:35 Jeff: Vyew is here: http://vyew.com/v0.30U/content/sm_main.php?mid=086346
10/1/06 11:07:02 JasonR: Greetings
10/1/06 11:07:09 Trevor: The same!
10/1/06 11:08:40 JasonR: Checking audio settings
10/1/06 11:10:13 JasonR: New headset has a mute button. Forgot to check that. :)
10/1/06 11:11:02 JasonR: Figured with a mesh network, more would be better, no?
10/1/06 11:13:37 new2mac: cool
10/1/06 11:13:49 Jeff: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/377
10/1/06 11:16:01 new2mac: i noticed a couple of interesting skypecasts by worldbriges
10/1/06 11:16:50 Trevor: I'm having a problem with the audio today, so at the moment I am simply going to follow the text chat!
10/1/06 11:18:14 new2mac: jeff,trevor i do reviews on skypecast at http://myvideopodcast.libsyn.com
10/1/06 11:19:02 new2mac: main ingredient lacking in skypecast is the ability to integrate text chat
10/1/06 11:20:59 Trevor: I finally have audio.
10/1/06 11:22:11 Trevor: Great idea!
10/1/06 11:22:30 Trevor: Sound quality on the stream is great
10/1/06 11:22:47 Jeff: cool - glad to hear it
10/1/06 11:22:57 Jeff: thanks
10/1/06 11:24:48 new2mac: great quality sound..am listening via itunes on my mac
10/1/06 11:26:02 new2mac: using nicecast?
10/1/06 11:26:17 Jeff: I'm using Oddcast (open source and free)
10/1/06 11:26:23 new2mac: lol
10/1/06 11:27:10 new2mac: whats the software jeff
10/1/06 11:27:27 adaptives: Sounds good (a few breaks...) but good otherwise
10/1/06 11:28:00 Trevor: Sounds perfect, really perfect on the stream!
10/1/06 11:28:09 Jeff: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/
10/1/06 11:29:23 Trevor: Can you contextualize this for me Jeff? What program are you using for streaming today?
10/1/06 11:29:34 new2mac: yup blew US40 on my logitech 350D
10/1/06 11:30:54 Jeff: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/oddcastv3_standalone_3.1.12.exe
10/1/06 11:31:08 new2mac: yikes win only?
10/1/06 11:31:12 Jeff: http://vyew.com/v0.30U/content/sm_main.php?mid=086346
10/1/06 11:31:24 adaptives: How do we add items to the list on the webcast report page?
10/1/06 11:31:42 Trevor: A naive question that hopefully will not frustrate you -- can people join in the streaming or is that only done through Skypecast?
10/1/06 11:33:03 JasonR: afk
10/1/06 11:33:21 Trevor: afk?
10/1/06 11:34:36 new2mac: wow am seeing somebodys desktop
10/1/06 11:34:48 Trevor: I see your desktop!
10/1/06 11:35:49 JasonR: Away From Keyboard. I am back now. :)
10/1/06 11:36:20 Trevor: So you would use Oddcast instead of Nicecast?
10/1/06 11:36:58 new2mac: good question
10/1/06 11:37:44 Trevor: That's what I see -- only Vjew.
10/1/06 11:37:52 new2mac: have to test out oddcast in my other intel puter
10/1/06 11:38:58 Trevor: No we have only seen one page -- your entry vjew page
10/1/06 11:39:07 new2mac: opensource shouldnt be win only
10/1/06 11:39:13 Trevor: Oh Oh -- the audio is gone from the streaming now!
10/1/06 11:39:54 Trevor: I am going to try clicking on Channel 1 again. . .
10/1/06 11:40:21 new2mac: trevor,channel 2 is better for u i guess
10/1/06 11:40:43 JasonR: Guessing Jeff needed to reboot
10/1/06 11:40:53 new2mac: lol win
10/1/06 11:41:18 Trevor: I guess too -- the streaming audio is definitely out.
10/1/06 11:42:50 new2mac: is the streaming done live..or does it reads from a self creating archive that is almost live
10/1/06 11:42:52 Trevor: I have the audio again on streaming
10/1/06 11:43:14 new2mac: what happened
10/1/06 11:43:50 Trevor: You are back.
10/1/06 11:44:08 jl: my connection went down
10/1/06 11:44:36 adaptives: You are brave to try it again :-)
10/1/06 11:45:23 adaptives: Is everyone silent or is the sound out again?
10/1/06 11:45:45 Trevor: Yes the sound is out again.
10/1/06 11:46:27 new2mac: is this the first time using Oddcast?
10/1/06 11:46:38 adaptives: I can see the blue line and the ellipses in vyew
10/1/06 11:47:15 Trevor: The ellipses are from me!
10/1/06 11:47:18 new2mac: jl, is this the first time using Oddcast
10/1/06 11:48:07 Trevor: Sound is back on streaming.
10/1/06 11:48:07 new2mac: wow
10/1/06 11:48:17 Trevor: Must be a conflict with Vjew
10/1/06 11:48:48 new2mac: it crashes the browser
10/1/06 11:49:06 Trevor: How about trying IE?
10/1/06 11:49:14 new2mac: simulat a crash?
10/1/06 11:49:34 JasonR: Re: Stream and participation. You have to be in the Skypecast to participate in the conversation.
10/1/06 11:49:53 new2mac: lol
10/1/06 11:50:03 JasonR: There is usually a slight delay between the Skyepcast and the stream (true Jeff?)
10/1/06 11:50:11 new2mac: yes
10/1/06 11:50:45 Trevor: I see something really nice in the possibility -- i.e. that there is a collective whiteboard.
10/1/06 11:51:04 JasonR: No
10/1/06 11:51:50 new2mac: jeff say a keyword and we will see how long is the lag
10/1/06 11:52:36 new2mac: ping
10/1/06 11:53:04 JL: 21 secs
10/1/06 11:53:10 new2mac: cool
10/1/06 11:53:41 adaptives: http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2006/09/28/the-levelator/
10/1/06 11:54:49 new2mac: check out this framset tool for skypecast http://www.lookr.net/skypecast/?user=myvideopodcast
10/1/06 11:56:40 Trevor: Ciao!
10/1/06 11:57:22 JasonR: Lost audio
10/1/06 11:57:37 JL: you're not in the skypecast
10/1/06 11:57:46 new2mac: thanks jeff for playing host am out of here Tags: * webcast Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
I have been meaning to try webcasting for training from a very long time.
I was finally able to try it for a corporate training with a client. This is an account of our experience, hoping that it will motivate those who have been thinking of similar initiatives, to actually give it a try.
The topic for the session was related to object oriented software design, where we discussed the goals that we should have in mind when we design software. There were a total of 5 participants. We used Vyew (http://www.vyew.com) for collaboration. Vyew is an excellent free tool that supports slides, desktop sharing, desktop screenshots, and text chatting. It also has a voice conferencing facility that supports upto 20 participants. However we did not use this feature because participants would have had to make long distance calls to the conference call number. Instead we conferenced using Skype. One user had problems with his mic and could only hear. It was a slight limitation, but he got over it by asking questions over the text chat. I used Audacity to record the session. I used "Wave Out Mix" to record both ends of the conversation, but the incoming audio was not recorded properly, because the speaker volume on Audacity was slightly low.
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I'm sorry I missed the Webcast today for the Webcast Academy, but that notwithstanding I have been profiting greatly from all the discussions there and on EdtechTalk. I just started a Delicious account and found Writely for a Chinese professor who wants to have a collaborative Chinese writing project in the lab. The Edtech Talk newscast was a great idea. For the record, I enjoyed the talk between Doug and Dave spanning the northern part of the continent from the end of August.
Trevor
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I am trying to edit one of my blog entries. Did the option to edit or go to My Workspace get disabled? I was trying to change a link address but get a fatal error note when clicking on My Workspace. Thanks!
Lee
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Back after 4 weeks away, and hoping, finally, to get streaming. I'd be happy to be contacted by all LwC Academy interns.
Dennis
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My Blog is finally up. I have been trying to get one that I feel will do all the things I need to do for blogging (especially about DOPA and Blackboard patent issues), resume, work showcase, photos, and the like.
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Last Sunday's session became a general discussion about all things Mac. While the discussion was interesting it took us away from the intended focus of the session, webcasting for interns. The deviation from program was largely a result of people outside the intern community joining the Skypecast.
All future Mac webcasting workshops will no longer be Skypecast. Interns are asked to enter the Academy Chat Room at the beginning of the workshop so that they can be given the Skype Id of the person facilitating the workshop and be brought into the Skype call by that person. This procedure should ensure that sessions stay on topic and do not compromise Academy information that might be considered more confidential in nature.
In response to the desire for more general discussion about Macs and their application to education and communication, we are pleased to announce, at Jason Robertshaw's suggestion, MacBridges. While there is not much at the site as yet, stay tuned to 'Upcoming Events' for our first webcast (sooner than you might think!). Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast Academy Meeting * webcast workshop
Ok, I have done a bit more work on these, using the Site that Jason recommended, this is what i have come up with... not sure which icon I want to go with, the pillars or the mic. But the different levels will have a different colour laurel.
- Voice Recorder - Red
- Audio Editor - Green (proof2)
- Webcaster - Yellow (Gold)(proof1)
- Instructor - Orange
Let me know what you think!
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Our Weekly Webcast Academy Meeting
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Webcastathon Rescheduled
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'Commencement Ceremonies'
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Class of 1.3 and 2.1 (EVO special)
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Proficieny 'pillars' & certification criteria
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Audio Engineer - record & edit telephony conversation
- Streamer - webcast the audio from a telephony conversation
- Show Manager - moderate the discussion, manage callers
- Publisher - post edited audio and show notes on a website
1+2+3+4= Webcaster
- Tech Issues
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Hi everyone
Liz and I streamed to Sandbox A fairly successfully. We were discussing an article found online which was a presentation to the Education and Technology Committees of the New York City Council by Ellen Meir from the Center for Technology and School Change at Teachers College, Columbia University.
We didn't get to start on time because of some technical issues. We resolved those about fifteen minutes after our start time. A few minutes into the show, the chat room let us know that I was coming through but Liz was not. I had forgotten to set the sound capture in SimpleCast to the sound card, so no Liz. We fixed that and were good until the end.
The attached file is from Audacity since the stream recording was not complete until half way through.
Download MP3 (18.5 MB, 20:18)
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I just downloaded Audacity for the Mac. I've used it a couple times on a PC. When I lauch it for the first time, it says "Audacity First Run," and asks me to choose a language (with English being the only option). When I click OK, it just hangs, spinning the beachball and never fully launches.
I thought this might have something to do with my account settings, because I don't usually run as full admin. So I logged into the full admin account and launched Audacity and it eventually came up. So what's going on here? Is this normal? Do I have to have full permissions to use Audacity, or is it something else.
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Just found this August 2006 interview with Jeff and Dave: http://edufilter.org/?p=4). Sorry if this is old news. But I found the statistics on listenership and number of downloads insightful. I've wondered about that and thought it might be a important nugget of information to add when discussing Webcast Academy proficiency, i.e., number of listeners reached.
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Thanks to Doug Symington, Paul Reid, Alice Barr, Jason Robertshaw, Lee Baber and Cheryl Oakes for their contributions over the first four sessions. It has been great to have the exchange of information and ideas between Mac users in the community. It has also been good to share in the achievement of people getting up and running with streaming. I look forward to more Mac users joining us for future workshops.
PS check out Lee's live banjo at the end of the Session 3 mp3 file!
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Paul,
Good to hear from you. When I descend from the Weksh mountains, I will contact you for help.
Thanks for writing,
Dennis
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I have been thinking about using Webcasting on our closed network where I work. I am guessing that I would need to set-up a Shoutcast Server,but what I use instead of Skype? Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
paul...
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Might be able to generate custom badges using the Official Seal Generator. See attached.
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I am reading about these Mac successes at streaming and grabbing in Wales, UK on holiday. When I return to Germany in about two weeks' time, I shall continue to fight forthe honour of PCs - and my honour in particular. So far I have met with total failure.
Dennis
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Hi everyone, After today's discussion, on Proficiency Badges, and chatting with Jeff and Dave, I am pleased to present some proof of concept Webcast Proficiency Badges. There is still some work to be done on them, but these give the general idea.
You could use them on your website/blog/wiki, make crests and sew them on your jacket, tattoos (not real ones, the ones you use water on), buttons, badges...the uses are endless...
Any comments, suggestions, feedback etc, is greatly appreciated.
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Webcast Academy Meeting 1.2.5
September 10
**Agenda
- Proficiency 'Badges' and Certification, Intern Portfolios** Webcast Components - Streamer, Host, Director, Editor, Publisher, others?
- Shoutcast (self-streaming, stream info, streamripper)- A Webcast Academy Client?
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Webcastathon Planning
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Book of Webcasting
- Live Video (webcam & desktop) Academy Video Room
Plug in link below the video window
Needed Software NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video) Tools
Shoutcast Forums - Video Section
Thanks to Brad and Jason last night, I was able finally to get to kick the host. A virtual kick the can!
At first I planned to just listen. So I brought my USB logitech headphone/mic . This works great for just listening. However, when I went to take over the broadcast things failed.
So, I picked up my Logitech USB mic, and headphones(ipod),then with a restart was able to use Nicecast, hijack the broadcast,SKYPE and archive so you will hear a little bit about our conversation.
Moving along!
It is great to work with a small group of people when troubleshooting.
Oh, I am using Mac intel Macbook, when I first was invited to join the skype conversation, I crashed. I am using Skype 1.4.0.49, not up to the beta!
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Brad Hicks hosted Webcast Academy #4b for Macintosh users. cheryloakes and I joined Brad in the conversation. I had my first full succcess, hijacking the Skype call in Nicecast and taking over the stream. Also successfully recorded the Skype call using the ecamm Call Recorder. Thanks for all the help Brad.
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Change Log (This blog is being edited till completion):
a. 10 Sept, 2006 - Modified 3.1.4 to 3.1.8 (Error in Oddcast version)
b. Added solution2
Webcasting with Oddcast:
The installation of Oddcast 3.1.8 from oddsock.org proceeded fine, however I had some issues when streaming. I was able to resolve some issues, and am working on the rest.
Issues:
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Could not find MP3 encoder
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Could not record and save locally
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Oddcast seems to be streaming audio from wave-out-mix even if I tell it to stream only from mic or line-in
Solutions:
- The MP3 encoder was not visible because I did not select LAME encoder when installing Oddcast. By default it selects the Ogg Vorbis encoders but the LAME (for MP3), and AAC encoders have to be selected manually. I had to reinstall Oddcast with LAME selected, after which it worked fine.
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Teaching in Rural and Remote Locations series This is the second in the teaching in rural and remote locations series.
My guest was Paul Reid, a teacher at Paraburdoo Primary School.
About Paul from the Digital Chalkie website: Interesting things of note might be that I love computers and have done so for many years. Currently I live and teach in Paraburdoo (a small Pilbara iron-ore mining town where most people earn 4 times as much I do). I once ran an international film festival in a bomb shelter in southern Japan.
This webcast originally went to air on Saturday 26th of August 2006.
Download mp3 (27MB, 59min)
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Hello,
Today is Ganapati Visarjan in India. Thought I'd share this with all international participants on Webcast Academy.
Ganesh is the god of good fortune. During Ganesh festival the idol of Lord Ganesh is bought into many homes and worshipped for 10 days, and on the 11th day the idol is immersed in water.
This is the Kasaba Peth Ganapati Mandal in Pune, and one of the oldest (113 years old) in the country.
This is a snippet from Wikipedia that explains the symbolism of the Ganesh idol. Every element of the body of Ganesha has its own value and its own significance:
- The elephant head indicates fidelity, intelligence and discriminative power;
- The fact that he has a single tusk (the other being broken off) indicates Ganesha’s ability to overcome all forms of dualism;
- The wide ears denote wisdom, ability to listen to people who seek help and to reflect on spiritual truths. They signify the importance of listening in order to assimilate ideas. Ears are used to gain knowledge. The large ears indicate that when God is known, all knowledge is known;
- the curved trunk indicates the intellectual potentialities which manifest themselves in the faculty of discrimination between real and unreal;
- on the forehead, the Trishula (weapon of Shiva, similar to Trident) is depicted, symbolising time (past, present and future) and Ganesha's mastery over it;
- Ganesha’s pot belly contains infinite universes. It signifies the bounty of nature and equanimity, the ability of Ganesha to swallow the sorrows of the Universe and protect the world;
- the position of his legs (one resting on the ground and one raised) indicate the importance of living and participating in the material world as well as in the spiritual world, the ability to live in the world without being of the world.
- The four arms of Ganesha represent the four inner attributes of the subtle body, that is: mind (Manas), intellect (Buddhi), ego (Ahamkara), and conditioned conscience (Chitta). Lord Ganesha represents the pure consciousness - the Atman - which enables these four attributes to function in us;
- The hand waving an axe, is a symbol of the retrenchment of all desires, bearers of pain and suffering. With this axe Ganesha can both strike and repel obstacles. The axe is also to prod man to the path of righteousness and truth;
- The second hand holds a whip, symbol of the force that ties the devout person to the eternal beatitude of God. The whip conveys that worldly attachments and desires should be rid of;
- The third hand, turned towards the devotee, is in a pose of blessing, refuge and protection (abhaya);
- the fourth hand holds a lotus flower (padma), and it symbolizes the highest goal of human evolution, the sweetness of the realised inner self. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * ganesh
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My standard “rig” for webcasting is as follows:
Hardware: iMac G4 desktop with 1Gb RAM, Logitech USB desktop Mic
Software: Nicecast (for broadcasting and recording), Audacity and Garageband (editing), Skype (conference calls), iTunes (music broadcasting via Nicecast)
The above rig is what I have found the most dependable to date. Even though my Mac has fairly good system specs, I find that it still tends to struggle when running Skype and Nicecast simultaneously. Using the web-based Skypecast facility definitely helps to reduce the load on system resources. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * webcast_report
Last week I posed some questions about the Academy through the lense of the Masters unit I'm currently taking. A couple of the community members were kind enough to respond to that post and links to their responses can be found here and here. So given that I put the questions out there in the first place it's only appropriate that I give my perspective.
- What is the common vision of members of the Academy community?
The Academy website defines the following goals for its activities:
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Increasing the number of people who are capable of producing live, interactive webcasts
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applying the open source community approach to skill development
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creating a place that formally recognizes proficiency, excellence, and innovation in these new media skills
The members of the community come together from many different countries, education systems and levels of education. So it is, in some ways, quite amazing that the people who have involved themselves manage to find a common ground. The thing that strikes me about the people that I have met through the Academy is that they are all prepared to be open to making new connections with other people. They are prepared to share their knowledge and also want to learn from others. They are prepared to go more out of their way to help their fellow community members. The community members are prepared to enter into open discussions that bring forward new things to learn and issues to be considered. My perspective is that the community members share a vision of a community where they can learn about how to apply new technologies to their own lives and the lives of their students. The community is growing into one where professional knowledge and experience is shared via the webcast shows that are developed as members proceed through the Academy training. As more people participate in, and complete the training, the community grows; so to does the audience as new webcasters introduce members of their other networks to their webcasting activities.
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I just finished a new Nicecast Screencast.
I tried a new version of screencasting. I made the camera follow the cursor. Just experimenting with SnapZPro X. The Nicecast tutorial I created before had some incorrect set up instructions in them so I am working on a new version. This now replaces the video shown in the Book of Webcasting. I kept the same URL address so if you used the last one as a link or reference, it will now show the new video.
Let me know if this style video makes you too dizzy! It is "kinda rapid"! ~Lee
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Curious if anyone has had experience with streaming solutions for the Macintosh. We discussed this a little bit during last night's webcast workshop (#3b). In particular, I found this:
Welcome to Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols.
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
Seems to also play nice with Windows and Linux, according to the description. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Macintosh streaming
**Webcast Academy Meeting
Sept. 3, 2006**
Download mp3 (18.4MB, 40:11)
A Webcast Academy meeting for Class of 1.1 and 1.2 interns to check in and see 'where we're at'. Topics included:
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Interncasts for 1.2'ers
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Posting, streaming, and other tech issues
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1.1'ers certifications and graduation
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upcoming webcastathons and this season's webcast schedule
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any other questions or issues interns would like to address
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For really long URLs use tiny url! You probably heard of it but here it is again in case you hadn't! Lee
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Yeah! Finally had my first success with Nicecast tonight. I was able to cast into Sandbox B. Seems so easy in hindsight. Cormier promises it gets easier. I believe him. :)
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Over recent weeks I have been considering the phenomenon of professional learning communities as a major theme for the Masters unit I'm currently undertaking. I have been considering the readings for this unit in the context of the community that has built up around the Webcast Academy, and more recently Education Bridges.
The following quote from Haberman (2004, p.52), raises some questions to reflect on with regard to the Academy:
'A group is a learning community when members share a common vision that learning is the primary purpose for their association and the ultimate value to preserve in their worplace and that learning outcomes are the primary criteria for evaluating the success of their work.'
- What is the common vision of members of the Academy community?
- What are the learning outcomes that are the basis for evaluating the success of work undertaken in the Academy?
- How do we evaluate the success of the Academy's work?
- What personal motivations do individual community members have for being involved?
Some of these questions are answered through the way that the webcasting training and requirements have been structured to date. However, I would be interested to get some responses to these questions from members of the Webcast Academy community.
Haberman, M. (2004). Can star teachers create learning communities? Educational Leadership, 61(8), 52-56. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Webcast_academy * online learning community
Hey folks. Just thought i would point to this one. As many of us are self hosting, this cpanel skypecast might be useful https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=... September 2nd. 16:45 Eastern.
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Hi Everyone,
Been away and busy for the last little while, so i am a little behind on the WCA course of study. I recorded the following today during the Webcast Academy check-in. I hope Doug and Dave don't mind, as its their thoughts on when to mute Skypecast / Conference participants. I did a little editing, shortened it and added an intro at the front.
Next up is streaming live?
cheers paul...
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Brad Hicks talked me through my first webcast today. I was able to record 20 minutes of audio using Skype and Nicecast archiving set-up. We used Sandbox A. I also experimented with hijacking iTunes. I was happy with the recording though I will need to be careful that my audio is not recording at a higher level than incoming audio in the Skype source.
I find that Audacity uses a lot of system resources so I was happy to be able to record/archive the audio within Nicecast. I used AIFF as a lossless recording but would like to test AAC and MP3 at another stage.
Thanks go out again for to Brad for giving up some of his Sunday afternoon to talk me through the use of Nicecast.
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I just described my continuing failure to stream. I tried uploading screenshots of the steps I take, but the server simply took too long to upload and I aborted the attempt.
Am I the ONLY PC intern trying and failing?
I'm determined to succeed, but determination hasn't got me very far up to now.
Does anyone know UNYTE? It's a program, Skype related, that allows consenting adults to take over each other's computers. Would anyone like to take over mine and get me streaming?
Dennis
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Teaching in Rural and Remote Locations series
This is the first webcast in a series on the topic of Teaching in Rural and Remote Locations in Australia. This series is being run in partnership with Edith Cowan University, South West campus. The aim is to give trainee teachers some insight into living and working in the types of locations they may be posted to in their first years of teaching. The discussion will focus on teaching and living in these communities, and how technology can assist teachers who find themselves isolated from professional support networks.Our first guest was Terri van Zetten, a teacher in the Catholic school system, who has now taught rural/remote for a number of years now and who has a strong interest in using technology in the classroom.
This webcast originally went to air on Wednesday 16th of August 2006.
Download mp3 (24MB, 52min)
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I log in.
Status is still: down - but 'login' has changed to 'logout'. Whatever I do with SimpleCast, I don't get connected.
Return to Shoutcast.
Logouot.
Try to log in again. Form for ID and password does not appear.
Inspect log. No evidence of my visit.
Deducation: my login, desüpite switch from 'login' to 'ogout' on Shoutcast is not effective - otherwise there would be something in the log.
Any suggestive comments welcome.
Dennis
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This was practice for next sunday when the SEEDLINGS of Maine get together for a show about their vision for technology and teaching in the coming school year.
Here we go.
NexT Sunday August 27, 2030GMT. Join us if you can.
Go to Skypecast, search for SEEDLINGS of Maine.
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Hey, guys,
Today I listened to the EdTech Talk and had the chance to record it using Audacity, with my regular mic and no extra things, just adjusting the settings according to Jeff´s instructions. Cool!!! Everything went smoothly and I was happy to see that I could record it with no problems, although I had to give up my laptop and work on the other computer...
Here are the screens of it. Later on I´ll try to play around with the audio.
Thanks for all your help!
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I am good at overlooking things, but it does not seem as if there is a session today.
I cannot get beyond: ERROR when I have logged into Sand 04 and return to Simplecast. My other settings are correct, that even if they are wrong that should not affect, surely, the connection to Sand 04.
ARE THERE ANY PC INTERNS OU THERE experiencing the same problem, or who have solved it. I would love to hear from you, here or at:
djn@dennisnewson.de
Dennis
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Hi everyone...
Liz and I successfully streamed in Sandbox A. We briefly discussed an article in School CIO titled Six Mobile Breakthroughs.
Download MP 3 (5.4 MB, 5:54)
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Hello all,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be (mostly) offline for the next couple of weeks - we leave for Korea in a few hours. If any interns would like to host a workshop or schedule 'sandbox playtime', please do so. Just click 'create content'/ event. When you post an event, the default timezone is GMT, but you can choose any timezone you like. That timezone will be the one shown to all visitors. To avoid confusion, I very much suggest including a link to a timeanddate.com world times page, like this -
Workshop #SomethingA - Sunday, Sept. 3, 4pmGMT (global times).
You can also send a newsletter to all interns by clicking 'create content'/ newsletter and choose 'webcast academy intern newsletter'.
May the streaming force be with you and I will very much look forward to connecting upon return.
Anyong for now,
JL
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I thought I would post a brief interview that involved recording both ends of a Skype conversation. It finally turned out to be quite easy, requiring nothing more than setting Audio Hijack Pro to the Skype application and clicking record.
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Thanks very much, Plato, for answers, including screencasts.
I log into Shout Cast. (I've got the Firefor "remember pwd" function switched on. First time of trying I see it - afterwards I don't).
I go back to Simple Chat and chose MP3 and MP3Pro. I immediately get a disconnected, ERROR message.
Anything crucial in:
Encoders > MP3 Plus MP3 etc. >
convertor
Server Details
Stream archive
???
Dennis
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I've checked my settings, but I still get ERROR when I log in to the sandpit and right click with START within SIMPLE CAST. I did a screenshot of the message I received, but I can't get this interface to accept it.
No. Just tried again. Ctrl + V doesn't function, and neither will paste.
In SIMPLE CAST - WHICH plugin must I choose:
MP3 MP3PRO
WMA
Legacy MPs
Ogg ?
Dennis
Still determined to make it!
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Couple of things.
Caught the Podcast411 interview with Dr. Kathy King. Has she ever been a guest at EdTechTalk? She mentioned the Podcast for Teachers and iLearnRadio.org. Anyone had experience with these podcasts? I'll have to check them out.
Also, I wanted to try to record a screencast of the new Skype Conference Recorder for Mac from Ecamm. Tried last week with Cheryl, but had a couple snafus. Anyone up for a brief Skypecast, let me know.
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I have been asked now by a Japanese Faculty to set up the language lab to record Skype conversations between students here and in Japan. This adds a very important interactive feature to our oral proficiency assessment. Thanks to the Webcast academy for the confidence to say 'yes, we can do that!' Of course, now I really do have to complete this first assignment.
Trevor
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Just tried all the encoders available within Simple Cast Encoder. They all tried, but non managed to open up.
I'd think this is probably just a configuration problem.
Can any PC interns who have been successful, give me a check loist?
Dennis
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Simple Cast Encoder
I see there are 4 encoders possible:
MP3
WMA9
MP3 plus (?)
Ogg
Questions
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Which is the encoder to use? (PC - Simple streaming, no UBS micro - that comes next.)
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Are there any other essential bits of configuration necessary within Simple Cast Encoder to enure that everything works?
Looking forward to streaming into the sand box very shortly.
Dennis
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This is an all in one reflection about Nicecast, hijacking, archiving,master gain, using a microphone.
On Sunday with lots of help from Alice and Jeff I was able to webcast in Sandbox B.
Nicecast is a free software, great to use as long as you don't go over 20 minutes. After the 20 min. you get white noise. Also, Nicecast on my older G3 ibook would skip with the stream, the hard drive was just too full and too old. So, today I migrated over to my new Macbook, with dual intel processor. However, Nicecast has some settings that need to be selected, checked and rechecked.
Thanks to Alice for her coaching. Please see Alice's hints for nice cast set up.
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**Class of 1.2, Workshop#3a
Hosting, interviewing, & show management skills****August 13, 2006
Download mp3** (20.4MB, 44:36)
Chat Transcript Below
New Screencast - Using the Webcast Academy Sandbox
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PC. Everything configured for simple streaming. Using Simplecast. Log into sandbox.
QUESTIONS
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"Server down". Does that mean server not working, or server free?????
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If server is free: WHAT NEXT? Where does one start streaming.
There is a START button on Simplecast. Start there? Ican't see any "start" in sandbox.
It seems to me Simplecast's counter start rolling even if there is no sandbox connection.
- How can one tell if one has really streamed?
Dennis
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I haven't written much here because I have other blogs that I post to. But today, while waiting for the session to begin, I thought I would post.
One of the things that has fallen out from this weeks terrorists arrests in UK, is that apparently, laptops are no longer going to be allowed as carry-on luggage on airlines.
I have no idea how many teachers this is going to affect, but I think it is a great candidate for a major change in how business deals with information and data. If your laptop has ever had an opportunity to view films of airline baggage handlers tossing bags through the air into the hold of the plane, it will surely close it's top and go into hybernation when it finds out that in the future it too, will be in that load of baggage tossed through the air. It's possible that the outcome of such events will be that laptops will be built that are much more sturdy than what we see on the market now...and of course, at least in the early stages those will likely be heavier and bulkier...just the opposite of where things were headed.
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The Digital Chalkies and I tried broadcasting on the Sanbox Channels. It worked pretty well!
Things that worked:
We did not use Audacity at this time
Whenever you open Nicecast, you need to check your settings. Often the default settings appear even after you have reset them
Settings:
Source: Choose Audio Device: Choose your Mic.
Info: Name: Put in the name of your Broadcast
Quality:
Preset: Custom
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Sample Rate: 44.100 Khz
Channels: Stereo
Cpu Usage/Quality: Least (up 2 notches)
Go to Window: Show Server
I used Sandbox B so the name I chose is SandBox B
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After a lot of time fidddling with audio settings, I want to share my experience.
I use Skype, Audacity and a Logitech camera.
My micro is a USB.
AUDACITY
edit | preferences | PLAYBACK: Microsoft soundmapper
RECORD:Realtek MC97 Audio (My sound card, I guess).
SKYPE
Tools| Options | Adjust sound devices |AUDIO IN Realtek
AUDIO OUT Realtek
LOGITECH QUICK CAM Camera settings | audio | Primary audio capture device: Realtek
Dennis
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Hey, guys,
I'm uploading part of our Intern Webcast today. We missed Jeff, but Brad and Doug did a wonderful job! It was a pity there were some glitches at the end. But I managed to talk to Trevor for a while in a call.
Of course, crazy things are still happening... Well, during the skypecast I could record everybody, including myself,without a USB and no virtual cables. Then when I moved to a private call with Trevor, total mystery. First, Audacity recorded only me, then something happened and only Trevor was recorded, then it was my voice again. I wonder if Trevor clicked something on his end. My question: why could I record everything in the skypecast and then when I was with Trevor Audacity recorded only one end? Taxonomy upgrade extras: * interns * webcast * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * recording * skype audio problems troubleshooting nicecast
LARC is giving a workshop to 14 Vietnamese educators this weekend, and I would like to bring them into the chat room for the broadcast this Sunday to let them experience the power of an interactive live broadcast. I hope this is appropriate.
I tried the order that Jeff mentioned in the last broadcast for sound editing, normalizing and then amplifying. This produced really great results in recording Spanish question prompts in Sound Studio 3, so thanks for the tip.
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I recorded a Skype call while broadcasting using Simplecast (I think I was broadcasting) and then normalized selectively, compressed, which seems to also normalize then normalized selectively again and cut out some gaps. All suggestions and advice are welcomed and appreciated!
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I'm still not sure I understand the difference between normalize and equalize... but here are some more efforts for your listening craziness and hopefully comments and suggestions. You can tell by the name what I did to each one. They are all from the Simplecast recording (an mp3) I forgot to click the Audacity button. Maybe that's the lesson right there... don't try to edit from the Simplecast recording.... (isn't that what we've been learning????) anyway - can you tell the difference and if you import an mp3 that was saved in Simplecast into Audacity and then save it as a mp3- are you double
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I broadcast on Sandbox A. I'm not really sure I was broadcasting but I heard the echo, my meters moved and I followed the old SAM screencast. I then recorded in Audacity. The attachments are -the Audacity file saved as a mp3, the Audacity saved as WAV and the stream, saved in SAM as an mp3, opened in Audacity and edited just for length and saved. I had to close the file and just click save or it wanted to save it as an Audacity file or cause me to have to export it as mp3, which would have meant saving an mp3 again as an mp3 which I thought would be a bad idea... not sure where to go with this next. Can anyone hear a difference? None of the files are edited for sound quality.
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**Class of 1.2, Workshop#2a
August 6, 2006
Download mp3** (26.1MB, 57:00)
Chat Transcript Below
Screencasts:
- Basic Streaming with Nicecast (Mac)
- Basic Streaming with Simplecast & USB mic (Windows)
- Look ma! No virtual audio cables!
Tags: * streaming * nicecast * webcast * SimpleCast Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
Jeff mentioned he had recently uploaded a new screencast on working without a USB micro. Can anyone tell me where it is?
Am I the only one who finds it difficult to find my way around? There is nothing I can find in site map, nor in the list of screencasts - as far as I can see.
Dennis
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Recently, Brad Hicks, Paul Reid, Kelly Anderson, Doug Symington and Reg Whitely gathered online at various corners of the internet to discuss the topic of "Classroom Blogging" in a live webcast. A big thank you to Brad Hicks for his webcasting expertise and for hosting the show. Also to the engaging interviewees and chatroom participants.
Digital Chalkie Webcast #1 Part a: Classroom Blogging (MP3 – 9.9MB – 42min 58sec)
Right click to download the audio file from here.
Digital Chalkie Webcast #1 Part b: Classroom Blogging (MP3 – 9.7MB – 42min 43sec)
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Hello Jeff & co. This is my introduction. Looking forward to the conversations. For more deets, visit my website at cephalopodcast.com. Thanks!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * Intern Assignments * cephalopod * Jason
This was our first attempt at recording a call. We think it turned out pretty well considering the problems we had over the last few days figuring how to get the settings correct.
Liz and I plan on hosting webcasts dealing with high school reform, technology and the realm of 21st century learning. So our first recording has Liz sharing some of her positive interactions with department chairs at her high school in a meeting she had today.
We enthusiastically await your feedback!
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I used a small piece of a skpe conversation that Lee and I had while she was helping me with WireTap Pro. The first attachment is the segment edited and the second attachment is the same audio unedited.
There are 4-5 places where her speech is slurred. It really bothers me but I was unable to correct it. I hope someone else has some ideas about how to avoid the "slurring sound" or how to fix it.
I opened the aiff file from wiretap pro in audacity and then in both cases exported as mp3 files to post here.
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OK, this is pretty primitive. A D-, but as my son did at the age of 2 1/2 when he turned on a new Mac clamshell notebook, I clapped my hands and said 'I did it!'. The recording was made using the iSight camera mike, as my other M-audio proved to be too low in Sunday's webcast, on a G4 desktop with 450 mhz processor and 1 GB of ram. I followed the instructions on the MacDev Center recommended in the Book of Webcasting. I downloaded Audio Hijack and Soundflower, played around with the configurations until it (almost) worked.
The next step for me is to get another USB interface, possibly even a mixer or pre-amp, and try this again. It might be that the lack of processing speed prevents a quality recording. As always this is a journey and I'm happy to have made the first step.
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Hello Everyone,
I have created a page in the Book of Webcasting on basic Audio Editing in Audacity. It is simply a "how-to" and an introduction to editing in Audacity. Hope to follow up with a screencast soon.
Lee
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I just came accross an interesting feature at FeedBurner. It's called BuzzBoost. It gives you a little Javascript that aggregates other blogs you write, so you can share them on other websites without duplicating the post. Howeve I still haven't been able to get it to point to a particular post. It just displays the latest n posts. Inserting the script below displays the latest 3 posts from my blog (because I have configured it to display 3).
I wonder what will happen when I post again. Will it continue showing these 3, or will it show the latest 3. We'll find out soon.
Those who are keen on trying this out can register for Feedburner's free service: http://www.feedburner.com Taxonomy upgrade extras: * buzzboost syndicate blogs * Other Shows
Hello, Finally posting an excerpt from last Sunday's Skypecast for the class of 1.2. This is the part when Jeff had logged of for a while. I had to do a bit of editing. I reduced the volume of my voice and amplified the voices that were coming from the other end. It has come out quite decent, except for the echo just at the end. I think that was the time when I was logged onto both the Skypecasts.
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Good! ... I had breakfast while the attachment was uploading....
I've posted this MP3 file because I'd much appreciate comments, tips for improvment. I regard it as an exercise for the assignments here.
Details
I recorded the interview, conducted on Skype, using PowerGram. PowerGram records in ogg, so I transferred to Audacity (straightforward) did minimal editing and then saved (exported) as MP3.
Questions:
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Are PoweGram recordings of good enough standard for webcasting?
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What might have caused the echo in Paul's recording? (There was no loudspeaker).
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How can one avoid getting echo?
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Will explain attached file as soon as it has been successfully loaded.
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Webcasting Setup: Hardware
- PowerBook G4
- Mac OS X - Version 10.4.7
- Memory - 512 MB DDR SDRAM
- Wireless AirPort Extreme
- Shure SM-57 microphone
- M-audio FastTrack
Software
- Nicecast - streaming and recording
- Skype
- WireTapPro - recording
- Audacity
- GarageBand
I have used a Planetronics headset with mic and mic mute/headphone volume controls, a usb LogiTech mic, and am now experimenting with an M-Audio FastTrack recording interface (mic pre-amp and digital converter) with a Shure SM-57 mic.
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My audio introduction. I'm a member of the class of 1.1 and am really looking forward to working with each of you.
Download Audio (748 kb, 1:35)
My web page contains links to posts, pictures and links to some of the things I'm doing online. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * introduction * Intern Assignments * Doug Symington
The Webcast Academy does not have the ability to decide weight for Book Entries. The CMS academy offers the option shown in the attached picture while the WCA does not. The weight of a page decides where the page is shown in the order of the list on it's parent page. Please let me know if that option exists in the WC Academy and I am just not seeing it. Thanks. Taxonomy upgrade extras: * book of Webcasting * webcasting * book entry * weight
Jeff and all other academicians,
This is the link to the screen cast on windows management:
http://webcastacademy.net/screencasts/desktopmanagement/index.html
I confess I couldn't find it by clicking around the site, but, helpfully, Jeff gave the URL is the evoline 2002 list posting.
DennisTaxonomy upgrade extras: * desktopmanagement * windows management
Cursor froze in the first half of this message, so I decided to post and continue here. This has happened before and I suspect - will not use it - the apostrophe! - that seems to sometimes freeze the cursor.
Jeff sent a message to the evo 2002 list reporting that he had done a screencast on window management. I have not found this yet,
BUT I must look again.
Practising Skpye interviews - did a trial, using Audacity, BUT, my voice - very good recording - interviewee - pretty faint. This was using a headcast, but separate mike (non-USB).
At same time, recorded trial conversation with PowerGrammo.
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Thanks to Jeff for picking up from this blog my difficulties in getting to the Academy webcast and coming up with one of his great screencasts explaining, step-by-step what to do.
Thanks also, Jeff, for answering my query to the webheads list about windows management. I haven
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Here's my introduction. I look forward to working with the class of 1.2. Cheers!
Download mp3
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Hi - Here's where I live!
You can't post attachments to a blog response. It appears that in order to post my pictures, I need to be posting in my blog rather than responding to Paul's blog entry. Is that true?
In the end, I may have made these pictures a little too small. How do you all decide on a good size (both size and file size) when you post pictures to a blog?
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Yikes! My recording today seems to have recorded everything double or with an echo. At first I thought it was just that it recorded stereo so I split the tracks and deleted one but listen to how terrible it sounds. I'll try again tomorrow.
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**Class of 1.2, Workshop#1b
August 2, 2006
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**Class of 1.2, Workshop#1a
July 30, 2006
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**Chat Transcript Below
Check out the Book of Webcasting
for links to the latest screencasts**
Quick Links to recent Audio Introductions
| Cheryl Trevor Randy Susan Jeff | Paul Reid Paul Ellerman Carla (by Erika) Erika (by Carla) Parag | Alice Liz (with photo) Lee Dennis Doug |
Tags: * webcast * Webcast_academy * telephony * skype recording Categories: * Webcast Academy Meeting
During today's webcast academy session, someone mentioned that it would be neat to see what its like around where we lived. So here are three pictures I found on Flickr that describe, Ottawa, Ontario, the Capital of Canada to me.
Skating on the Rideau Canal (World's longest Skating Rink) in the Winter
The World Famous Tulip Festival
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Before the next session, my personal aim is to find out if:
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One should head straight for a Skypecast connection and NOT go to the Academy.
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If, after making the connection, once should join chatroom at the Academy
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Jeff referred to asking for the microphone. Where? In which window?
I could hear perfectly, and it was fascinating, but I couldn't join if, for the reasons above.
Dennis
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Sam, Screencast 3:
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Was the only one so far I did not have to download.
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For me, it is without sound.
Other Windows screencasts are fine.
Dennis
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It looks to me as if the schedules for our meetings aren't synchronised i.e. different times in Newsletter & Webcast Schedule. Am I wrong about that? Dennis
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Greetings to you all and a special "Hi!" to my CETEFL colleague. You all sound young, dynamic and professionally successful. I should learn a lot. Trying to catch up, so a short and simple introduction.
Dennis
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True I've been travelling, but I still feel like the boy that's arrived in the third week of the semester. I'm finding my way around, but there were/are areas of the Academy I didn't realise existed. I'll get my new micro tomorrow, and I'll be with you. Dennis
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**Sunday, July 30 4pmGMT (global times)
Skypecast here**
We will be working on recording both ends of telephony calls. You'll need your USB desktop mic, and the basic pieces of software listed in the Webcaster Kit.
Windows users, please check out the new screencast on this topic at: http://www.webcastacademy.net/screencasts/2wayrecording/index.html
Mac and Linux users, we do not yet have screencasts specifically about recording two way audio for those OS's, but Lee's Nicecast tutorial may be of help to Mac users. If any Mac or Linux users can produce a screencast on this topic, please do so.
Quick Links to recent Audio Introductions
| Cheryl Trevor Randy Susan Jeff | Paul Reid Paul Ellerman Carla (by Erika) Erika (by Carla) Parag | Alice Liz (with photo) Lee Dennis
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Welcome to all the 1.2 interns. The neighborhood is getting very exciting and I am anxious to get to know everyone better. I have really enjoyed the introductions from everyone! I have recorded my intro and it is admittedly sappy ...no way around it...but I love messing around with enhancing and editing audio. (This recording is also set up as an enhanced podcast.)
I didn't mention that my previous careers were playing with a musical touring group, audio engineer, and trainer for a USET World Champion Endurance Racer (not all at the same time!) In the academy, I have done the webcast called SpaceCast (8th grade elgg students, their teachers and guests) and been involved with Teachers Teaching Teachers. It's nice to meet all of you and to learn more about the other 1.1 interns.
Lee
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I'm pleased to be part of this Webcast Academy and look forward to learning new things alongside everyone. download mp3
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I look forward to working with you all on line. I am a little nervous about this because strange things happen to my computer but I know that you will all help me trouble shoot!!! My friend Cheryl is in the class as well. We have been practicing!Taxonomy upgrade extras: * alicebarr
Hello Everyone.
I am really excited to be a part of Webcast Academy. I look forward to meeting everyone and learning a lot of interesting things. Forgive me for the short intro... but it's been a tiring day, and it's quite late now...
Look forward to (virtually) meeting you guys...
Bye for now :-)
Parag
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Hi, I am sending along the edited audio for the EdTechTalk Brainstorm for last Thursday. I hosted the show for Doug Symington. Discussions on the show centered around blog software such as elgg and WordPress and its application for schools, and the EducationBridges Elgg.
Dave from Florida joined in and talked about his experience setting up a blog for his region and had quite a bit to contribute. Paul Ellerman, Cathy and chat room participants had information to add as well.
The recording starts after the show began due to technical difficulties...mosty my own! Please excuse the audio quality..voice levels were not even and I had to resort to a Planetronics headset after my mic broke right before showtime! I fixed it as well as I could for the time had to edit...it is very time consuming to fix if not recorded well to start with.
Lee
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I thought I would follow up to Jeff's screenshot with a link to the download page for the editor he used for adding the flash player on your posts. Go to firefox..(download it if you dont have it already) and go to ...Tools...Extensions...Get More Extensions... and find Xenha. Here is a direct link to the download page I used but it works best if you go to the extensions and click on get more extensions since it installs the extension directly into Firefox for you.
Lee
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Hello everyone!
This is Erika Cruvinel from Brazil! My friend Carla will introduce me to the group and I will introduce her! We think that it is much easier to talk about someone else than about ourselves!
Wow! This is fun and scary for me!
Bye for now!
Erika
Well, guys, Erika and I work together and we decided that it would be fun to introduce one another. So here it goes! My introduction was recorded by Erika. I laughed hard when I heard her ideas about me. I didn't even know I did so many things!
It's a pleasure to be here with you all. I'm sure it will be a thrilling experience!
Thanks, Jeff, for inviting us!
Beijos,
Carla Arena
Brasilia, Brazil
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Hi Everyone,
I have to say how excited Iam to be a part of the Webcast Academy and the Class of 1.2.
I am looking forward to meeting, working and learning with you all.
cheers
paul...
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Hi all,
I don't have Xinha in my Camino browser. So here is an MP3 of my introduction (872kb, 1:51).
I'm very glad to be taking part in this webcast 1.2 internship and would like to thank Brad Hicks for recommending me the fantastic Webcast Academy.
I am the founder of Digital Chalkie and my goal is to help Brad with the production of webcasts for Digital Chalkie in the future. The purpose of Digital Chalkie is to provide a hub for Australian educators using ICT to engage and facilitate the best educational outcomes for their students. The domain name uses the word ‘chalkie’ as an affectionately defunct Australian term for teachers. The goal is to establish a hub/magazine/think-tank for teachers to support each other and to collaborate in the use of ICT.
I look forward to meeting up with you in the webcasts. Would it be possible for the webcasts to occur earlier for the weekend show? 12am GMT perhaps?
Kind regards,Paul Reid
Wow, this is really fun listening to introductions - learned some new things about people I've 'virtually' known for a while and enjoying making some new web acquaintances.
I realize now, I should have included some information about how to created a download link and flash player option for playing the audio. If I don't fall asleep on the keyboard, I'll try to get that up tonight. If not, it will be up very soon.
Download mp3 (864kb, 1:50)
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Hi everyone! I was sorry to miss the first adventure with the new group of interns but look forward to working with you and supporting you as much as I can!
I did use a few filters on this recording but am unhappy with the underwater sound of it. I normalized it and faded in the beginning. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to get rid of the underwater sound, it would be great! I'd also like to stick one of those flash players here to play it, but am not sure how to do it. ???
Jeff, the screenshot video that you made as the introduction was fabulous. I would like to learn how to do that - exactly what you did. It would be a nice way to do my report. In fact, I have a recurring problem with my Nicecast which I could record and share! How did you make that???
Hi everyone...
I've had Audacity on my computer for some time, but never really had a good reason to use it. What better time...
This is going to be great fun, I think. I am looking forward to speaking with and learning from a wide array of people.
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My message from Safari is that this is experimental and they cannot guarantee it's going to work so don't send them any error messages. Hopefully, it will suffice. I did not quite follow Jeff's instructions here about .rtf vs. .html, but I'll just post this shall I? and see how it looks.
Hello, everyone! This is Trevor Shanklin. Kiralyfi is the Hungarian word for prince. I lost the title when my son was born, but use it anyway.
Trevor
Webcast Academy Meetingfor incoming Class of 1.2 interns and graduating 1.1 interns
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Interns, please post an audio introduction to your Webcast Academy Blog
For more info, check out the
Class of 1.2 Orientation Screencast
& Orientation Newsletter
NEW - Screencast about how to create download link and flash player for audio in your posts
Flash Player Code
Next Week - Recording telephony calls and basic audio editing
Meeting Times
Sunday, July 30 4pmGMT
Thursday, Aug. 3 2amGMT
Chat Transcript Below Tags: * webcasting * class of 1.2
Webcasting Setup:
General Setup:
- Create a space for your site either on one of the WorldBridges networks or your own site.
- Create a Feedburner Feed
- List Show in iTunes Directory (you need a feedburner feed to list your show in the iTunes Directory)
Hardware:
- Dell GX620 - SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio Card
- USB Mic Logitech
- Headphones
- Treo 600 cameraphone (for low res pics)
Software:
- Simplecast
- Audio Repeater
- Skype
- Audacity
- Browser: Firefox, Flock, or Internet Explorer
- Filezilla
I downloaded Audacity, LameLib, Nicecast and recorded my Intro. I can't wait to meet the other folks in class. I hope Susan is around as she said she would mentor me. See you soon.
Cheryl
Webcasting Setup:
I'd hoped to try both Sam (using my PC) and Nicecast (on my Mac), but ended up just using Nicecast to stream because of lack of time. I'm hoping to try out Sam in August. I've included the details of my PC below too, as I've been using both during the Skypecast, and for recording.
PC: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8 GHz, 768MB RAM
- Windows XP (Home) 2002 , Service Pack 2
Mac: Mac Mini (Power Mac 10.2), Power PC G4, (1.5)
- Mac OS X - Version 10.4.6, Memory 512 MB DDR SDRAM
Wireless AirPort Extreme
As I said above, I've recently been using Nicecast to stream the audio. At first, I found it easier to concentrate on managing the hosting of a Skypecast, and while I was doing this I played with capturing the audio using various tools, from Audio Hijack (on the Mac), Audacity, and PowerGramo and Hot Recorder (on the PC).
Hardware --
PowerBook G4
Mac OS X - Version 10.4.7
Memory 512 MB DDR SDRAM
Wireless AirPort Extreme
For software I use Nicecast, Skype and WireTapPro for streaming and recording with the Nicecast recording the audio as well for backup. I use Audacity or GarageBand for post-production of audio. I have used a Planetronics headset with mic and mic mute/headphone volume controls, a usb LogiTech mic, and am now experimenting with an M-Audio FastTrack recording interface (mic pre-amp and digital converter) with a Shure SM57 mic.
For me the biggest hurdle initially was broadcasting from within the school network. I could not connect to the stream due to filters at schools so I had to be connected by the home team (Dave, Jeff, Alex, etc) and host from Skype which does work at the school. From home streaming is easy, but I had to work on making sure all the audio settings on the mac were set correctly so I could be heard on the stream. By watching the audio LEDs in Nicecast, I know if I am getting a signal from my voice as well as from the participants joining me. Echo/Sound Test Service (echo123 in Skype) will give you a connection to test this detail.
Just getting ready for the adventure of Webcast Academy. Looking forward to meeting new people and learning a new type on conversation.
Our featured guest this show was Susan Appleton, one of the teacher coordinators for the Bunbury Senior High School BEACh (Bunbury Extension and Challenge) Program. This program seeks to extend students academically.
Sue gave an excellent account of the program and the impacts that it has had to date on the students and teachers involved. We look forward to some follow-up sessions with Sue in the months to come about other school programs she is involved with.
Download mp3 (28.9MB, 32min)
For my "rig" I've been using a Dell Latitude D800 1.50 GHz laptop with a Pentium M processor and 512 MB of RAM. I've also used a USB microphone and wireless (802.11g) internet connection.
For software I've used SAM Broadcaster, Virtual Audio Cables / Audio Repeater, Skype and Audacity for streaming, recording and post-production of audio. For me the biggest hurdles to overcome have been getting audio settings as they should be so that "both sides" of the conversation can be heard over the stream, "issues" within Skype and post-production itself.
Hi Susan, The way I have done this is to go to google calenders, click on the down arrow on the calender you want to subscribe to and you will see a settings link. There you will see a place to select the Calender Address...click..and copy the address. Go to iCal, click on Calender...Subscribe.... and paste the address in the Subscribe To window. Hope this helps. Lee
Here is a sample of the ideas I have for the Book of Webcasting. Understand that no links are working or set up yet. I have basically taken what we had and typed an explanation of what I will do with the book's home page if we all agree on it. Check this link out and let me know your ideas to add to mine. I will get this done for the new start of interns next week.
By the way, I was thinking of using some pop up boxes...anyone know if drupal will support that code?
Thanks, Lee
My Layout Ideas for the Book of Webcastin
Audio from our July 13 Brainstorm
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Jeff and Doug are joined by Drew for a discussion about audio. We talk about the importance of starting with good quality audio, and what can be done in "post-production" to make audio sound better.
I had some "Skype issues" that meant the loss of the some of the discussion and I'm especially looking forward to having Art and Cathy back for a brainstorm about "best practices" for teaching keyboarding skills to K-6 students.
Here's a link to another Google Calendar, this time for Webcastacademy. To move events between calendars, you can use the "Copy to my Calendar" feature for individual events in the calendar. Click on "Copy to my Calendar" and then select the calendar you'd like (in this case, the one for Webcastacademy.net) to make a copy of the event.
The question has also arisen about the pop-up window that asks if you'd like to "add this calendar" each time the Google Calendar button is clicked. I've been clicking on yes in this instance, and it appears to go directly to the calendar without over writing it. You should all have read/write/modify access to the calendar -- please advise if you have difficulties with access.
Laura Chapin has been kind enough to agree to come and give us some tips on interviewing. She's cool... and knows the field. Come on out, ask your Questions!
8pm EDT. Midnight GMT.
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Haven't heard from anyone regarding "issues" with the Worldbridges.net calendar, and I'm hoping it's a case of no news == good news ;-)
The calendar's time is set to Eastern (North America), although I think some of the entries are still showing in Pacific (North America) time.
Please advise of any troubles you have by posting here, and please do add or edit an entry to the calendar. I'd like to have some posts from different time zones to see how the calendar reacts. This will help to assess the viability of the calendar for our purposes here.
I'm sure that most of you know about the Electronic Village Online (EVO) that is organised before the TESOL annual conference every year (end of January-February), and which allows anyone who is interested (mainly, but not only English teachers) to participate in a 6-week online professional development session.
Last year, the 2006 EVO sessions offered a wide variety of online collaborative sessions, and there was a lot of interest in Podcasting (the Yahoo group set up for the event still has over 250 members), and I'm sure that this kind of event would be a great way of opening up the Webcast Academy to a wider audience (participants are usually from all parts of the world), and also of creating more webcasters for the World Bridges community.
Hi everybody. Sorry I missed last evening's Academy meeting, I look forward to catching-up on the audio. Here's a link to a subscribe button for the Google calendar I've been working on for our webcasts. (Even though it is named "Worldbridges.net" it is the calendar for the Webcastastacademy, and all interns should have edit/write access to the calendar).
The calendar is now, by default, set to Eastern time. Please take a moment to add an event to the calendar to ensure that you're able to edit the calendar. Post a comment to this post to advise of any difficulties you experience.
Audio from our July 3 Meeting
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Discussion about graduation requirements for the Class of 1.1, procedures and curriculum for Class of 1.2, and a variety of other items on the Worldbridges To Do list.
Next Meeting - Tuesday, July 11 5pmPDT/8pmEDT/midnight GMT
Thanks to all those who sent in applications to become part of the Class of 1.2. We are delighted to announce that all those who applied have been accepted. We will be sending out 'Admission Notifications' shortly. Thanks again and we look forward to beginning the webcasting fun soon.
Applications for the Class of 1.2 are due by July 16, internships begin July 23, and all assignments are due by September 30, 2006. Details of requirements are below.
If you are interested in participating as an intern, please complete the 'personal' and 'Webcast Apprentice' portions of your profile and use the Contact Form to send us a short note confirming your interest. Interns should plan on spending at least 2~3 hours/week working on Academy related tasks and participating in a collaborative learning community.
Webcast Academy Admission Policies, Program Requirements, and Certifications
Hello Fellow Interns,
This is still a first draft and none of this is etched in concrete. Thought I'd go ahead and publish it though to start getting everyone's feedback.
Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions?
Thanks,
Jeff
Class of 1.1 'Graduation' Requirements.
In order to complete the 'Basic Program' at The Webcast Academy, interns will need to
- produce 3 live interactive webcasts and publish them to their Webcast Academy blog
- successfully participate in a Finals Week Webcast Relay
- complete a 'Webcaster's Report' detailing the methods used, obstacles faced, and solutions found.
Webcast Production includes
a) successfully streaming the audio (without any coaching or assistance),
b) hosting or co-hosting at least a 30 minute show, and
c) recording all of the show's audio and editing it to a 'listenable' quality
Publication includes
a) posting show notes that include links to sites mentioned, an overview of topics discussed, and chat logs (graphics are not required, but encouraged in moderation)
b) including a download link and flash player listening option for the audio
The Finals Week Relays take place during the final week of the academy term (July 24~31). At least 3 interns must participate and take turns 'grabbing the stream' at least 3 times from each other. This is intended to measure the interns ability to handle high pressure, last minute, and/or unexpected webcasting situations.
The 'Webcaster's Report' is designed to help the the Academy build a database of information about the hardware, software, and troubleshooting involved in webcasting. Each intern will provide detailed information of their 'rig', methods, and obstacles encountered.
The deadline for all requirements is July 31, 2006. Upon review and approval by the 'Mentor Council', interns will receive a Webcast Academy Certificate of Webcasting Proficiency. As long their webcasting focus and approach are compatible with Worldbridges Values & Goals and they have completed a Worldbridges Webcasting Application, graduating interns will also receive a 'Worldbridges Webcasting License'. This license is a pre-requisite for becoming a webcast producer on any of Worldbridges channels or sites.
Upon completion of the Basic Program, interns are asked to server on the 'Council of Mentors' for at least one future Academy session (not necessarily the one immediately following theirs). They are also eligible to receive advanced certification from The Webcast Academy (details of which will be ironed out during future Academy meetings).
Applications for The Webcast Academy Class of 1.2 are due by July 16, 2006. The Opening Ceremony will be held July 23, 2006 in conjunction with The Class of 1.1.'s Finals Week Assembly.
Just wanted to let folks know about the live stream and chat room from Gnomedex today and tomorrow.
Links from http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/30/streaming-media-links-2/
- Audio is streaming live (Sponsored by GoDaddy)
- They have an IRC chat room online
- Video will be live only for the Senator’s keynote (through the official streaming page, and if you have any problems with it, please ask for help in the chat room).
Schedule Below(times in PDT)
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Webcast Academy
Show Notes for Webcast Academy 66
Tech Talk
- Pre Show Sound Check -- noise, audio levels, microphone selection and troubleshooting, final "rehearsal" to check hardware and software details, recording and encoding (how to set it up)
- Post Show Blog Entry -- mp3 and flashplayers, audio editing (amplify, compression, noise removal), ID3 Tags, enhanced podcasts, directions in Book of Webcasting for blog entry
Admin
- Graduation of 1.1 Interns -- July 31st graduation (3 posts and notes), grad certificates and use of airtime, continuing ed, ftp access
- Calender -- feed rss into Chat Room, webcasters responsible for providing rss feed
- One sign for all Worldbridges websites
- Database and tags as both archives and collection of resources
- Newsletters -- needs to be active
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This conversation took place on Wednesday the 21st of June. Our guest was Paul Fuller, the teacher inspiring his students to produce the Podkids Australia podcast.
Paul provided us with great insight about his philosophy towards the integration of technology, the various issues to be addresssed in setting up this type of project and the educational benefits he has seen his students gain from podcasting. Kelly Anderson was a great co-host, sharing her own recent experiences with technology in the classroom and her wider experience as an English teacher.
A podcast of the post-show will be available in the next few days.
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Raw Audio from our June 26 Meeting
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Stay tuned for Lee's edited audio distilled show notes.
Meeting Agenda
Tech Stuff
- Pre-show sound checking
- Audio Editing (noise removal, amplification, compression)
amplification & compression screencast
noise removal screencast * ID3 Tags
ID3 Tags Screencast
Administrative Stuff * Naming Conventions - 1.1 vs. 1.2 (class groups, level of study, or both) * Finalizing details for graduduation, certificate of proficiency/Worldbridges Webcasting License (dates, requirements, next steps) * Next class of interns - timeframe, availability of mentorss, groups? * Reference material creation & organization Taxonomy upgrade extras: * EdTechTalk A
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In the last part of Sunday 18th June's EFL Bridges World Conversation Club (see http://www.eflbridges.net for the other parts), we were joined by the one-and-only MC Hammer from California, USA, Scott in Tokyo, Japan, Moscowlips in Russia, Derli in Taiwan and Ali in Yemen.
World Conversation Club #6 part three MC talked about an exciting new project he's involved in, and why Skypecast may be part of this. Scott demonstrated how he can integrate music into a Skypecast by playing a section of 'Alleycat' by Chet Atkins.
Chatroom transcript Music: Theme - 'World Turned Upside Down' by Bombskare Music by 360
Note: In the months that followed, we encountered someone with a very similar voice to Albert claiming to be from a different country with a similar but slightly different story. The consensus among those that encountered him was that his story was probably not entirely true. So, amazing life story or amazing performance, new media hoax or blurring of fact and fiction - either way, it still makes for some compelling listening.
Part 2 of our conversation wtih Albert, a "blind hippie, teacher, Sufi political dissident" who was skyping in from a refugee camp in the African desert of Western Sahara.
Western Sahara Online Categories: * jeff lebow * Doug Symington * Class of 1.1 * western sahara * Other Shows
Categories: * jeff lebow * Doug Symington * Class of 1.1 * western sahara * Other Shows
This webcast went to air on Sunday 21st of May, West Australian time. Our first featured guest was Ms Christine Cunningham, Cochabamba Cooperative School (Bolivia) Director/CEO. An EFL teacher from Perth, Western Australia, Christine has worked in remote aboriginal schools in far north WA; with Australian Volunteers International in East Timor in 2000-2001; and for the last five years at her present school in Bolivia.
I had some problems with Skype, Nicecast and general audio during this first webcast. As such the first 10 minutes or so is not of a great quality audio-wise. However the audio improves from that point onwards and Christine's reflection on her teaching experiences are worth persisting with the initial poor audio.
This first experience has certainly taught me how to use Audacity and I look forward to much easier webcast edits in the future, I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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Visit this link to the skypecast for tomorrow's show. In my new position as Community Animator for the South Island Learning Community I've been asked to work with community stakeholders to come up with ways to use open source | open access software to develop object-based resources.
The tools currently under consideration are Drupal, Elgg and Moodle. I'm not as familiar with Moodle as the other two, but need to learn a lot more about each and all.
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A good discussion about what is on the agenda for Class of 1.1 and what happens after 'graduation'.
Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover ask: Do we expect enought of our faculty and administation? Download the show here (9MB, 35mins). Also, check out our show wiki for chat archives and show notes.
Next week we plan to continue this topic with a guest. Stay tuned.
The PersonalLearningSpace webcast publishes their third "live" episode recorded Friday, May 23rd from the home studios of the CompTech8 Podcast Classroom. Listen in to this week's recording as special guest Sus Nyrop from Denmark tells some entertaining stories to our group of elgg students from Virginia, New Hampshire. Our student groups from New York and Brazil will listen in later. When Jeff Lebow invites a wonderful surprise guest, Morteza from Iran, the fun really begins. Times like this make us all understand how really cool this new technology is. New Media... three cheers...take a listen and let us hear from you so we can continue to define our Spacecast!
Spacecast3
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Global Vibrants Webcast! Don't miss it. This is a really great webcast to catch.
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Here's the audio of a some fun I had during the Webcast Academy webcastathon earlier this month. I logged on to host a session during the webcastathon and had the good fortune to encounter Calamari and PN, after they skyped into my 'cast and invited me to join them in < a href = "http://secondlife.com">2nd Life.
It was a blast as we explored "in world" and met some great folks in our travels. Many, many thanks to all my guests, and hope you enjoy the audio of "Cosmo and Friends"
Calamari of cephalopodcast.com
PlanetNeutral of http://openstacks.net/os
Chris2x of http://amateurtraveler.com
Todd of geeksnewscentral.com
ComZero of http://inthetrenches.com, creator of podstats.com
Join me ("Cosmo Commons") for a great discussion about the 'net, 'casts and 2nd Life--in 2nd Life--during the Webcastathon on May 12/13, 2006 in celebration of the 1st Anniversary of the Worldbridges 'net radio network.
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This is part of a discussion that Doug, Lee, and Jeff had concerning...
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How the Webcast Academy can evolve
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What a collaborative open source learning community means
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What kind of certifications we can provide
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How the academy can be structured/managed,
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What role graduates play once they've completed their internships and so on.
The audio quality is not great, but it was a pretty good start to the discussion and we (we being anyone who's interested) will continue the discussion next week - Tuesday, June 7 at 5pmPDT/8pmEDT/midmght GMT. In the meantime, please feel free to share your ideas by commenting on this post, in the forums, or on your webcast academy blogs.
What is the Collaborative Commons? Laurie Bartels, its creator, explains. show here (15MB 30mins). Also, check out our show wiki for chat archives and show notes.
We're working on plans for next week. Stay tuned.
EdTechTalk#45
May 14, 2006
- Show Notes
- Chat Transcript
Dave (Coarsesalt Warrygal) & Jeff (Meno Rich) are joined by Jason Robertshaw (Calamari Ricardo) and Doug Symington (Cosmo Commons) for a tour around Second Life, the fascinating virtual environment we can't stop talking about. We visit several education related spaces and discuss the educational possibilities for this kind of virtual environment. Video clips of our field trip will be uploading soon to EdTechTalk.com and Meno Rich's Worldbridges Media Center.
Videos
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Part 5 (50MB)Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 1.1 * second life * virtualworlds
What's the story about blogging and the read/write web? Today, we discussed actual blogging applications in education. Download the show here (15MB 30mins). Here's our show wiki.
On Sunday May 14th, I was joined by Gustavo from Brazil, Djoko in Canada, Mike in Poland, Felix in China, and Javier in Argentina for the second EFL Bridges World Conversation Club.
In the first part, among other things, we talked about using the Internet for language learning, becoming an EFL teacher, the growth of Chinese, and Djoko also suggested another, special way of learning a foreign language.
World Conversation Club #2a - Download mp3 ( 41:38, 19.06MB)
If you are interested in using Nicecast, I have made a video tutorial to help get it started. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me! If requires Flash 8 Player which is a free download. Click Nicecast Tutorial below.
Nicecast Tutorial
Podcast Academy Coverage - Part 3
Part 3 of our coverage of The 2nd Podcast Academy held at Boston University April 28-29, 2006. While Doug anchors the stream, Jeff calls in with discussions from the Academy. We start out halfway through a covnersation with John Furrier of Podtech.com. We then speak with Ed Blaguszewski of Umass, Kieth Grove of Dover Sherburne Middle School, David Malan of the Harvard Extension School, Sam Levin of Podshow, and Academy organizer, Sasha Norkin of Boston University, We wrap up with the streamed audio of our first attempt at Triplecasting, a discussion with Videoblogging pioneer, SteveGarfield.
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David Malan | 16:00
Sam Levin | 21:00
Sasha Norkin | 25:30*
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SpaceCast Episode 2 is edited and ready to go. This time it is totally done by students! After being recorded live on air, Lindsey wanted to hear how it sounded RIGHT NOW! So, of course I offered to teach her to edit the original track. Lesson one in Audio Editing.
We had a change in schedule at school the day this webcast was aired so we had to change the student hosts who were writing out storyboards a couple of hours before show time...but the kids did a great job. Alot of sports news, school reform and music comments are a few topics covered. Thank you, Kathy and Jeff, for joining us and to Worldbridges for hosting our event. Please let us know what you think and we are open to suggestions! See you next week.
Spacecast
Happy Birthday WorldBridges!!! We look forward to listening to the webcastathon! This is our second webcast. We had an interesting discussion of blogging in education. Next week, we hope to continue the conversation with more specific examples of blogging in education. Please check out our new show wiki. See everyone next week.
I'd like to thank you Jeff and everyone involved at Worldbridges for the many hours of fascinating audio, the sense of community, and friendship that I've found through Worldbridges. You've been an inspiration to me, and I look forward to future collaboration, and more joint adventures in the Web 2.0 (and indeed in the Web 3.0, or should we say "Web 3D" of Second Life) in the next year.
We have gotten our first SpaceCast edited and ready to add to our blog. After playing the recording to the rest of my students, they were sure they could come up with a much more entertaining show for future broadcasts. I encouraged everyone to write their scripts so we have alot of new ideas ready to go.
We had trouble getting on air at school and we need to improve our sound but anything new takes time to perfect! Everyone is getting used to the idea of being part of a live show and have started blogging like crazy in their Personal Learning Space to find out what this new technology is all about and who these students are talking to them on the show. Take a listen and please give us your comments and suggestions. We really want our SpaceCast to fly!
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Following the Webcast Academy Workshop on Tuesday May 9, 2006, we headed into Second Life for some skypecasting and a group tour to help us get better oriented into this very engaging virtual world.
We were fortunate to come across Eric Rice, aka Spin Martin, who aside from being a Real Life leader in the world of New Media(see blog.ericrice.com and hipcast.com), is pioneering the use of SL as a medium for creating personal media and doing cool collaboratve things .
Eric, who was working on the soon to be launched Hipcast conference center, was very generous with his time, fielding questions from us newbies and filling us in on some of his plans to bring Real Life events to Second Life.
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This is our first try at webcasting. We discussed our backgrounds, and what type of topics we would like to discuss in the future. We had some issues with dropping packets, but you can make up most of the audio on the mp3. Check out our blogs at Learning Blog and 21 Apples.
Podcast Academy Coverage - An Experiment in Mobile Webcasting
Part 2 of our coverage of The 2nd Podcast Academy held at Boston University April 28-29, 2006. While Doug anchors the stream, Jeff calls in with discussions with Tony Kahn, Sam Levin, & CC Chapman.
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Podcast Academy Coverage - An Experiment in Mobile Webcasting
The 2nd Podcast Academy was held at Boston University on April 28 & 29. BU provided a high quality Real Video stream of presentations. During breaks, Jeff used his 'mobile webcasting setup' to interview presenters and attendees while Doug anchored the stream in Victoria
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Eric Olson | 3:35
Dan Bricklin | 11:00
Doug Kaye | 19:05
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Here's a Flash file that I put together that outlines the "issues" I had during tonight's edtechtalk brainstorm. As Jeff said, although you couldn't hear him over the stream, even those of us who've been 'casting for a while still get tripped up by the details from time to time.
Volume Control
WebCast Academy Tutorial - April 13th
Our Second webcast academy tutorial. We opened the show talking about what it means to be part of the academy, some stuff about digital storytelling and then on into some tutorials about webcasting itself.
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EdTechTalk#40 - Dave asks Jeff, "What's all this about?"
A discussion of the Worldbridges vision, Webcast Academy plans, and the development of our open source learning community.
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Thanks to all who helped make the Webcast Academy Open House such an interesting day. We're still processing material, but here are a few sites and sounds from our day of webcasting.
Hour#1 - Opening the Open House with the Webheads
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(This is a first draft and the plan will likely change as the Class of 1.1 sort out the how's and whats' of life at the Academy)
Overview
The goals of the Webcast Academy include
- increasing the number of people who are capable of producing live, interactive webcasts
- applying the open source community approach to skill development
- creating a place that formally recognizes proficiency, excellence, and innovation in these new media skills
It is our hope that those who complete an apprenticeship here, will put their skills to use on the Worldbriges Webcasting Network and elsewhere, but there is no charge for participation and no formal commitment required following the completion of the internship.
To keep things manageable in terms session administration, server resources, and security, we can only accept 15 interns for each session. Upon successful completion of their 3 interncasts and a 'commencement webcast', interns will receive a Worldbridges Webcaster Proficiency Certificate and become a Worldbridges Webcasting License.
Interns will need to spend at least 3~5 hours a week working on developing the necessary skills, working with other members of their 'channel', and banging their heads against their monitors. Eventually, intern station managers will be broken into 5 groups (or channels). One of the stations managers in each group will serve as Channel Director. The Channel Director will be responsible for scheduling and posting information about group webcasts on the calendar.
Interns will be the only ones with direct access to the Worldbridges webcasting streams, but everyone is welcome to participate in other ways - posting in the discussion forums, commenting on posts, contributing to the Book of Webcasting, and learning along with the apprentices.
How to become an intern
If you are interesting in becoming a webcast intern for session1.1 , please do the following:
- Register with webcastacademy.net and completely fill out the 'apprentice' portion of your profile.
- Download everthing in the Webcaster Kit
- Watch the Screen capture videos (uploading soon) of how to webcast using various streaming tools
- If at all possible, get a desktop USB mic (not a USB headset). This is the type we've been using. We have had much more success webcasting (capturing both ends of a telephony call) with a USB mic than with a standard mic.
Below is a tentative outline of our schedule. This is flexible and will be adjusted to suit our collective learning needs. Throughout the session, apprentices will post audio from their webcasts to the site, post blog entries to their 'Apprentice Journal', and contribute to the Book of Webcasting1.1.
Week#1
Task #1 - Give it your first shot (Download what you need, take a shot at going live on Demo Channel). This can be done during the Open House or during webcasts later in the week (if spaces are left).
Following the Open House , take a piece of raw audio (hopefully part in which you particpated). Tweak and edit it, including at least a quick intro along the lines of 'this is a piece of audio from .....'
Use Camtasia (Windows) or XXX(Mac) to create a screen capture video showing how you edited it.
Post both the audio clip and the screen capture to the internet and post the link in your Webcast Academy Profile.
Week#2
Discuss and Practice the following skills:
- Capturing audio from both ends of a telephony call
- Smoothly bringing people in and out of a telephony confernece
We will probably start with a whole group discussion, but then break in to OS based groups to focus on OS-specific details.
Following these discussions, each station manager will 'give it another shot' and test their setup.
We will then break into 'channel' groups. Work with your group to plan a 20 minute show for next weekend. When you have decided on a show time, please post it on the WCA and Worldbirdges Calendar.
Week 3
Listen to Group Webcasts. Discussion lessons learned.
Address some of the finer points of editing audio - Possible guest experts
This is the Book of Webcasting - collaboratively built by Academy participants and still a bit messy, but aiming to be the repository of webcasting wisdom.
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Politics & Podcasting
Part#2 of our New Year Webcastathon Discussion
with Scott Fletcher of Podcheck Review
December 31, 2005
As our discussion with Scott Fletcher continues, we begin addressing the effect that podcasting and new media might have in politics and society. We are joined by Rob Walch, Stephen Downes, and John Mullaney.
What are the does and don’ts for podcasting politicians? What role will podcasters play in shaping the public debate and the electoral process? Why would five charming guys like ourselves spend New Year’s Eve discussing such things on a webcast? We attempt to address these and other fascinating questions as the clock ticks down to 2006.
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * Class of 1.1 * politics * new media * scott fletcher * rob walch * stephen downes * john mullaney
Interviews & Links Mentioned
- From the Interview with Josh Wolf of The Revolution will be Televised
Anastasia Goldstein , CurrentTV, CurrentTV Video Contest, Robin Sloan, Ryanne vlog about BlogNashville, VideoBlogging Yahoo Group, VloggerCon, FlashMeeting, * From the Interview with Dave of AudioCollective.net - T-Shirts, PodcastAlley.com, Shirtsbymail.com, Shoutcast, PonderPlace, NoHoldsBarred Radio, Podcast411.com, * Geeknewscentral.com - Todd Cochrane announces the publication of the first ever book on Podcasting
Links to other sites mentioned
Adam Curry’s Podshow on Sirius Radio, DailySourceCode, Ourmedia.org, FreeVlog, Rocketboom, Andrew Baron, Input2005
Today’s webcast included podsafe music found at Garageband.com
Syd - Back Home - Boston
Sleepwalker - Project Invisible Cloister - Bulgaria
(no chat log was archived from this webcast)
Categories: * Interncast (Recording of Live Show) * podcasting * Class of 1.1 * josh wolf * audio collective