Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Trying out a new podcasting service called SolidCast as recommended by Tony Vincent.  I continue to look for the alternatives to show teachers. Each of these services offers it’s  own advantage and Tony highlights some of this in this chart.

The thing is I have a feed already for my podcast.  As I configure it within my PodPress plugin, it asked for a location as to where my podcasts are stored. I normally use archive.org  so I don’t know if I can switch  to another host or whether this will appear in my current itunes feed. SolidCast provides a feed as do all podcasting services but I’m not sure I want to promote 2 feeds. I think the PodPress plugin is my nemesis.

Show notes: 

• k-12 online conference
• SolidCasts

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Trying to podcast while on the road, I wanted to add some points to Ian Jukes’ talk at NECC 2007. Overall, his ideas are good but there are some things that I felt should be clarified.

Show notes:

• PodPress
• Wes Fryer’s issues
• Steve Dembo’s take on why podcast when you have a blog
• Bud the Teacher
• Kevin Honeycutt
• Original Presentation by Jukes

I’d didn’t say but would also include Ewan’s comment on my blog that address the digital native issue.

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We’ve begun our third season of podcasting and I’m thinking this might be our best season ever.  In this episode  Rob Wall, Alec Couros, Heather Ross and I talk about twitter, moodle and more. There’s even a prize for listening!

There’s more detail over at the posse site, or you can just listen here.

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Ewan McIntosh (via his social bookmarks) alerted me to the PoducateMe website by Micah Ovadia. The website is touted as offering “practical solutions for podcasting in education.”

If this site is practical, then why is Audacity not included in the list of 22 recommended software options for podcast recording? Certainly that’s an extensive list of commercial products, but if the site really wants to be practical should a FREE, powerful, and cross-platform podcasting solution like Audacity be included on the list of recommended software recording programs?

I think so.

The website’s PoducateMe Guide is 186 pages long, and really does look fantastic. It is free to read online, and DOES include references to Audacity. On page 64 of the guide, the author writes:

Because it is free, multiplatform and easy to use, Audacity is often mentioned as an attractive option for recording and editing sound on both Macs and PCs. However, you will not be able to utilize dynamics processing plug-ins while recording with this software.

Certainly there are many limitations to Audacity, but the fact it is FOSS makes it more relevant and useable by educators around the planet than any other podcasting software alternative I’ve seen.

Thanks to Micah for creating a thorough and fantastic guide for podcasting. I’d recommend, however, including Audacity on the list of recommended software programs for recording. I’d also recommend including Garageband and Adobe Soundbooth.

I’ve added a link to Michah’s list of podcasting sequencer programs to my wiki curriculum, “Digital Music Creation: Engage, Inspire, Have Fun!” I’ll be sharing that again (with the help of my own kids) on August 3rd in Oklahoma City at the A+ School’s annual state conference focused on integrating the arts for learning in K-12 schools.

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A year ago I spent four podcasts talking with Kathy, Clarence and Darren about their classrooms and the new story of teaching and learning. The model these three present continues to inspire teachers locally and internationally. So how have things changed in a year? The following 65 minutes answers those questions and has them look ahead to what their classrooms might look like in the future.

Here are a few show notes:

• Kathy’s class blog
• Darren’s blog
• Yak Pak
• Answer Tips
• John Seely Brown
• Clarence’s blog
• Clarence’s class blog
• Darren’s AP blog
• International Teen Project
• 1000 name wiki
• Science 90 blog

 

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Alec and Rob chat. Have a listen.

This is my presentation from the TLT/IT Summit 2007 in Saskatoon. It was a great treat to meet Kelly and John whom I’ve conversed with online but was glad to meet in person.

Here are the slides. (Embedding was not working)

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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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