Podcast 26 Frustrations with Assessment

2 comments assessment, Podcasting

Apr 05

Haven’t done a podcast with just me yakkin’ for a while. Tried using GCast on Steve D.‘s recommendation. Not sure it’s for me as it wants to build a player for me rather than just give me an mp3 file I can embed with my own built in player. So thumbs down to GCast, unless their helpdesk lets me know how to link directly to the mp3.

Update1: They did email me back but apparently I needed to complete another step using Garageband.com
Update2: Did that, but they link has a weird identifier that won’t work in PodPress
Update3: Final email states the identifier is needed so I can’t use GCast as I had hoped….Steve, you’ll have to do a bit more selling for me to buy in.
Update4:After 6 days, I uploaded it to good old internetarchive and stick with what works.
This is a brief podcast on some of my recent frustrations on ideas of assessment and accountability.
Time:8:56
Size:6.4 MB

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  • http://teach42.com Steve Dembo

    LoL, but if I figured it out for you, then I wouldn’t get to read amusing posts like this!

    Don’t know about PodPress, but I do like GCast’s phone-to-podcast feature and that it will handle all the details for people without their own blog/rss feed.

    Only thing I used it for the other day was to record my carcast when I left the hardware at home. But when I got to the house, I downloaded the MP3 from GCast and uploaded it to my own hosting.

    I’ll have to check out that PodPress plugin, looks cool!

  • Niccolina

    Where do I start with GCast….lets see…it SUCKS!!!! I recently starting using it , until last Friday….its apparently not working, since LAST Friday I have tried and tried to upload my audio files for my podcast, I know HOW to do it, GCast is just not working and apparently responding to its users is not priority to them, I emailed them last Friday asking if there was some maintenance work they were doing to the site that was preventing anyone from uploading, never heard from them, I use the podcast for my show so I was really trying to get it to work, nothing, and there’s not a single not of communication on the site telling us anything! My other friends who also use the service say they too did not receive any responses, so I had to use another to get my show up so others can download it later if they wish.

    It seems to me that GCast could care less for their users, unless of course you were paying for the service, my account is free, I guess you get what you pay for.

    No “Sorry for any inconvenience”, nothing.

    If you want a good podcast I can tell you where NOT to go, GCast sucks!!!