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Interview with Robin Ellwood - Part 7 - 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!
Interncast_2_KarenDennis_2008-4-9
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.
Earth Day Planning Session April 6th, 2008
Interncast#2 Jane Jiang 2008-3-30
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.
How to transcribe wave-to-text for text blog publication
Steps
1. Convert the audio file from AUP to WAV or MP3 (using Audacity/Lame/WinLame)
2. Transcribe from WAV or MP3 to Text (using WAV-To-TEXT Voice Recognition)
Second Life First Look Viewer Released
Increased rendering quality, but beta stability, for Second Life
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/29/windlight-first-look-viewer-released/
Web Conferencing and Webcasting System
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/
First interncast on Antarctica
Education on the Road - Antarctica
World Time
For the global visualization of time zones and clocks on your desktop (freeware):
Desktop Sun Tracker
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
Microphone Monitoring Tool
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
Book Review about Webcasting and Streaming
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:
My thoughts as a newbie
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.
My first interncast!
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!
¨Literacy and Homelessness¨ for CKUT Marathon
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:
1. to be played during an ´athon (albeit FM radio)
2. about two very important topics: literacy and homelessness
3. the first time I´ve ever interviewed anyone ¨in person¨ for non-print publication