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You can listen to my audiointroduction now...

This is really going to be challenging. Here is my introduction

I was not able to download the beta version of Audacity.  Will try again later.  So here is my intro in the old version.

Here is a little audio I created to help explain the use of a compressor in audio editing.
~lee

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 House
Information 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.

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.

Last year, I had to ask others to broadcast for me since I could not get the firewalls open at school. That problem is now solved and I am able to handle the details. I still must work on getting the chat room to work for me and kids. Paul Allison and I joined Madeline Brownstone for a nice student cast session.

Just as we learn the ins and outs of social networking, so do our students and therein lies the reason for my editing a little of the audio. We will be discussing plans for this friday's SpaceCast tonight on Teachers Teaching Teachers so we can be better guides for out students.  See you next week (Friday at 10:30am EST). (Click here to subscribe to SpaceCast)

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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

 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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