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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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, filenames
  How to deal with ID3 tags Screencast
  
• Development of a 1.3 Learning Plan
  Stay tuned
• Assignments
  - Record and post a short introduction on your Webcast Academy blog
  - 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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My introduction. It's fun to be here.

I have, skype,simplecast and audacity but haven't managed to install vac.

I am finally getting around to trying to use the flash player in my post. The audio is nothing new. download mp3

 

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

 

I'm so grateful for this :-)

Thank you for listening to my introduction.

I am posting again, I saw it, but here it is again. Intro to Popcorn Conversation.

A short message from me. I look forward to hearing what you have to say.