Category: podcasting
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Avoiding the Chipmunk effect in podcasts
Sounding like a chipmunk in a podcast can be a good and cool thing when it is intentional, but pretty frustrating when it is not. PodPress is a slick, free plugin for WordPress, but it can make podcasters sound like Alvin the Chipmunk when podcast listeners use the browser-based flash player — IF the wrong…
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Podcast104: Ideas for Classroom Podcasting
This podcast features ideas generated by teachers in Edmond Public Schools (Oklahoma) and Rockwall ISD (Texas) about using podcasting with students in the classroom. We created this podcast together during a workshop conducted over a videoconference on December 8, 2006. This podcast was created entirely in Audacity running in WindowsXP through Parallels on a MacBook…
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Podcasting on the rise
The “Podcast Downloading” project data memo dated November 22, 2006 from the Pew Internet and American Life Project (PDF) contains some updated data on podcasting use. Perhaps more striking than the main finding that “Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at…
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Computer audio help
During a workshop on podcasting I taught recently, participants had some trouble getting the microphones connected to their WindowsXP computers to work. The website www.audiohelp.info uses a browser-based Flash program to test your speakers and microphone, and works for computers running Windows or Macintosh OS X. This website is provided for free by YackPack, but…
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Audacity quickstart guide
I created a very simple, two page PDF “Quickstart Guide to Audacity” for my podcasting workshop last night. I continue to tweak the online curriculum for that workshop each time I teach it: It remains online (and free to anyone) at http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/podcasting. I love Audacity because it is free, cross-platform, simple to use, exports directly…
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A workshop first
Tonight was a personal first: I taught a three hour workshop on podcasting to about twelve teachers in St Louis, Missouri from my house in Edmond, Oklahoma! I have taught this workshop on podcasting a fair number of times, and taught (and just “met” with others) via videoconferencing technologies a fair number of times too–…
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Podcast101: Webcast, Podcast, Sakai and the Millennial student
Dr. Victor Edmonds serves as director of Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley. This podcast is a recording of Dr. Edmond’s presentation at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Show notes for this podcast include: The Sakai Open Source Course Management System Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Webcasts…
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Tech Chick Tips podcast interview
The Tech Chicks (Anna Adam and Helen Mowers) have posted a podcast interview they conducted with me two weeks ago at the Beyond4Walls conference in the Dallas area. (Episode 12) Their questions were: What do you regard as your most essential piece of equipment for podcasting? Why did you start podcasting? What are the two…
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Dan Schmidt keynote: Beyond4Walls
These are my notes from Dan Schmidt’s keynote at the Beyond4Walls conference on 3 November 2006 Democratiziation of media – our kids can literally now compete head to head with CNN – web 2.0 is all about participation in media – convergences is changing everything Trends 1- iPod / digital music revolution (sound files so…
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Podcast96: Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property & Podcasting
This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared on November 3, 2006 at the Beyond4Walls conference hosted by Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. In the session I discuss with participants myths which many people believe today relating to mp3 files and file sharing, sources for locating and sharing copyright-friendly music…