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As I read and listen to the posts of others and see/hear your enthusiastic voices, I am greatly encouraged that my technical difficulties will soon be overcome. With some initial help from Lee's great screencasts, I was able to get most of my settings correct. Then, about two and a half hours ago with the help of Lisa and Jason, I was able to get all the settings nailed down and actually stream on Sandbox B. That felt good, until I listened to the archive and then realized that I could only hear Jason, not me!

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  Well, yesterday was a blast! Once again the intrepid Webcasters-to-Be gang got together just for a little practice, but it simply became a whole show! Yes, with guests, participants, change of streamers on the go, all kinds of topics...In the Webhead/Edtechtalk spirit, very organic. Streaming just started to flow and voices were pretty loud and active. My settings to record with Audacity and to stream in Sandbox A were the same as last time. In the middle of the show, I stopped streaming and Illya picked it up. Successful transition. Laughs! I'm sure Illya felt the responsibility of having Jeff as a guest of our show! One week before I couldn't imagine to be skyping Jeff who wanted to be there with us. We even had listeners, Linda Parisi and Susan Ettenheim got to Sandbox A.  

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It's been a great two weeks.  We've practiced recording and streaming but, there remains an essential question.  Where are all the GUYS?  It kind of reminds me of my experience as an Elementary School teacher.  It is very typical to find ratios of 10 to 1 female to male teachers.  Come On  boys!  Don't do this to me.  I am making an ALL CALL to all the MEN Webcasters to be.  This is your chance.  Doug, Jeff, Jeff Flynn, Jason, Dave Baron, Troy, Jose A and I can only do so much before the final Domination!

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Here is recording from Audacity of stream.

Mistakes made along the way: Forget to set wavein and waveout in repeater in an earlier version. Doesn't pick up anything that way, you get a voice saying "trial" over and over on stream instead. 

Volume is still low for me. I will definately try to fix that better in my next attempt. 

Webcast Academy 2.2.2
August 8, 2007

Chat Log Below

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Thanks to Maria and Miz Mercer for letting me kick the stream succesfully. Last night with Jose and Durff, I failed miserably, today is a new day. Now I can graduate..

 

Durff and I did the hamster dance

 

 This is another section of my first streaming success. In it, Durff explains how to start a Skype conference.

Unfortunately, I turned off the recording too early, or there would have been a third show on how to turn off or hand over the stream.  Thanks for your help anyway, Cheryl. I'm glad you could be there :-)

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My first streaming experience - hurray!!!

Thanks, Jose, for taking me through the steps.

Today I worked hard learning how to stream. I reviewed the content material, asked questions, experimented, hit snags, reset preferences, still had trouble, talked to others, wanted to scream, posted to the forum, took an outdoor break, came back and still don't know if I can make it work. Whew!

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I know I sound like a complainer, a griper...and really, I'm not.  But I feel like I'm back in high school.  I missed one class, just one, and am so lost I feel like I'll never catch up.  I watched Jeff's screencast (Thank God for him!) and understand all the settings I need.  But I don't have a password to try out streaming, don't know where to go to try out streaming, don't know how to schedule time to try out streaming....in short, can't try out streaming.  I'm ready to quit.  But what kind of message would that send to my da

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Listen to Cheryl, Jose, and I discuss audio issues I hear no echo....

Thanks Durff for providing the forum to do our homework and also  Doug, Jose Antonio, Illya, Cheryl, Marielle, LisaP, Maria and others that checked-in.

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Been experimenting with different drupal themes for the Academy.  This is a slightly modified version of the Zen theme.  For now I've made it the default theme. What do you think?  You can check out other themes by clicking on 'my account / edit' and changing your theme preference.

For no apparent reason, it worked.

It was a wonderful chat with Dennis :-) 

My VAC/Dracula post is more of a micro-blog reflection. Here is more...

There is the argument in 2¢ Worth » In Response — The Need for “Web 2.0?
about what's really new about Web 2.0?

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Well it took some doing. I was finally able to record my skype call. Thanks for everyones help. I resorted to using powergramo. I like it. I couldn't find the link to the VAC's. I did have to go get more ram for this old beat up machine. Now that I have doubled it things are working better. I also made a successfull skype call. 2 more first for this old techy. My tech director is going to flip when I tell him all that I want to add to the Middle School Curriculum.  :) .

I finally figured out how to record a skype call using powergramo.