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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
  

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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

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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

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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'. 

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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!
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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...
- How the Webcast Academy can evolve
- What a collaborative open source learning community means
- What kind of certifications we can provide
- How the academy can be structured/managed,
- 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.

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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
Part 1 (35MB)
Part 2 (88MB)
Part 3 (102MB)
Part 4 (50MB)

Part 5 (50MB)

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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.

Next week, we interview Laurie Bartels about The Collaborative Commons. Check out our blogs here: Learning Blog and 21 Apples.

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)

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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.

Part 3 - Download mp3 ( 34:16, 15.6MB)

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John
Furrier 8:40

David
Malan 16:00

Sam
Levin 21:00

Sasha
Norkin 25:30

Steve
Garfield

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Untitled Document

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.

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