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Matt Montagne-Interncast
Today I had a conversation with a student of mine, Alex, about his experience testing out the school owned Asus eeePC a few weeks ago. During his trial of the PC Alex took the computer between school and home and really put it to the test. He used it during the school day for note taking and he also used it with a small group project where the students used a wiki and a Voki.
Interview with Pearl Harbor survivor.
Thanks to Matt Montagne, I was able to join in on the live interview with the Pearl Harbor survivor on the USS Oklahoma. This was a "jump right in" opportunity for me and Matt made it very easy for us. Our 8th graders are learning about WWII and the USO, so it was opened up to the students. I also had some interested 7th graders participating. Several adults and both administrators were there.
Parents as Partners Parent Involvement Webcast
Earth Day 2008 Webcastathon!
Hi Everyone-
I wanted to follow up our conversation from last Sunday's intern class where we were kicking around the idea of an Earth Day 2008 Webcastathon. Doug Symmington is joining in the fun and we have a teacher from the UK who is going to participate as well. Ideally it would be great if we could have the entire 24 hours of the GMT day scheduled with moderators from all over the globe!
To sign up, either drop your name in the planning wiki, leave a comment here, or leave a comment at my professional blog where I left a post about this concept.
Cheers!
Matt
2 Way Telephony with Sonja
James Farmer meets the Blogging4Educators Group
The Blogging4Educators team had the big pleasure to talk to James Farmer , currently CEO of the largest education blogging network on the web, Edublogs (http://edublogs.org), and consults for education, media and community organizations.
!Week Three Assignment - Paul McLean - 02-09-08
I used Ustream for this assignment. I broadcasted and recorded a video stream. As a result you will need to use the link I have provided you at the bottom of this text to view my week 3 assignment.
I used my webcam for one of my video streams.
I used WebcamMax for another one of my video streams.
I used my new usb microphone for one of my audio inputs.
I used the audio from my flash animation as played through the soundcard of my machine for the other audio input.
This was made much harder than it could have been because the machines I have access to in order to do this do not have the horsepower to deal with running WebcamMax and the Audio Repeater software. Because of this I had to switch the audio manually.
Even doing it manually, it appeared that I was not successful because I was hearing clipping from my end while I was streaming. You can even here me say in the recording that I did not think this was working.
However it did work as you can see from the recording that can be found here:
http://ustream.tv/recorded/Dkhz5ZFzk4AWb,wbHSRV,IbOmTem0Ia5
There is some funny stuff at the end of this video stream recording, so it will be worth it to view the entire thing.
When I get a better machine with more horsepower, I will try posting something similar but using the Audio Repeater so that I won't have to manually switch the audio. 'the biggest problem with doing this manually is that you cannot use the microphone and the audio from the screen at the same time, and this may there will be times you will need to hear both at the same time. But this will have to wait for when I get a better machine.
Here is the link one more time, I hope you enjoy it:
Matt Montagne, Sheila Adams, Sonja Gonzalez, Karen Olmstead Interncast
On Friday, February 8th, 2008 Sheila, Sonja, Karen and I had the honor of speaking to Paul Goodyear, World War II veteran and survivor on the USS Oklahoma/Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, 1941. This was a wonderful conversation with an amazing man. All-in-all, I think this went very well for our first shot at this.
Telephony ASSIGNMENT
So this challenged my patience for sure. Seems like you should be able to use Garageband and save as MP3. I am going to explore that more. I ended up playing the recording I had done during the conversation and capturing it using WireTap Studio (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/). Seems like a cool little program, but the fact that you have to use multiple programs to accomplish the task annoys me. Guess I will record live using WIreTap next time. Lesson Learned!!
Telephonoy Assignment-Conversation with Kevin Honeycutt
2-way Telephony reflection
It took a fair amount of time with the skype lady almost two weeks ago to figure out how to get this to work (see last blog post). Then I procrastinated . . . and went to Educon . . . and found myself scrambling this morning to find someone to talk to.
2-Way Telephony on Skype by Sarah Sutter with Alice Barr
2-Way Telephony Madeline Browstone
2-way telephony Karen Dennis Telephony recording 2-2-08
Paul McLean - Recording of Skype Two Way Call - 02/01/08
I had a good time with this one. I decided to be both sides of the skype call.
I have a Skype Out account so I used that to call my regular phone.
I then answered the regular phone and alternated between the two phones using two different voices. I used the mute buttons to make sure there was no bleeding.
More Real-Time Audio Quality Problems? Use an Amplifier with Equalizer
Try using an Amplifier with an Equalizer (built-in one) to boost the energy of some of the audio bands. Many are like guitar amplifiers (with a MIDI input for instruments), but look for softwares that have a Microphone input, like this one:
Real-Time Audio Quality Problems? Use a Graphic Equalizer
Try using a Graphic Equalizer (a 7 or 10 band one) to boost the energy of some of the audio bands (freeware).