CogBlogged Tagged ‘audiocasts’

I might have presented a shorter presentation. My timing was not on cue at today’s Podcasting, Schmodcasting demo at GateWay Community College, but we had a full room, folks were wide-eyed, and asking questions. Or they are just nice people. During the session, I had the iRiver running, so have made a huge, “umm”-filled recording (27 Mb 14.9 Mb, Stephen Downes challenged me to trim the file) available at: http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dl/podcast-gatewaycc-060227.mp3. To demo the use of small pieces, I blog about this recording (and the shorter live recording demo) in my CogDogBlogLab (Blogger) which I have connected to FeedBurner for auto generating the podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogbloglab Woah, is this all nested! In addition, I did a brief demo of recording with the iRiver (I have a second unit, which is useful). Unfortunately, I did not get deep into the demos on using Odeo (though I did play Gardner’s recorded greeting, thanks for [...]

I am quickly working up ideas for my Monday demo session on the “p-casting” word. Thinking about some of Cole’s comments desiring simplicity, I slapped my head in shock as I realize that Odea was a tool site I had known about, bookmarked, but had not really explored. Someone else can better summarize what it does, but it is free, and certainly a Small Piece of the Loosely Joining variety. You can subscribe to podcasts, tag ‘em, but more– you can record directly into a Flash tool a short audio (3 minutes), and you can even phone in a recording. I am sure there is more, and I am still at the playing level, but it seems to offer a simple interface for doing record and publish audio. You can set up different “Channels” and these can have their own RSS feed and podcast subscribe links. I did a quick [...]

Day One of the Northern Voice conference, and Nancy White is running a great session on the important assets of online interaction. I hastily set up my iRiver to get a recording, may be noisy due to proximity to projector fan. And I rushed the editing. http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/nancy_white_nv06.mp3 [52 minute MP3, 24 Mb] Some sloppy written notes as well are below, most likely she will post on her Online Interaction blog updates feb 20 2006: Nancy posted her slide images– not as some bloated PPT but as a flickr set. Rock on! Nick Noakes combine the slides and audio into a windows media video (weighing in at 112 Mb) available at http://www.archive.org/details/ConferencePresentation Beverly Trayner listened to the audio and posted a distilled series of summary notes and comments. First, share the chocolate! Struggled with facilitating online community in mid 1990s. Why did what worked in f2f world fail in online? Why [...]

Last Friday was the February meeting of our Ocotillo Online Learning Group — the theme for this meeting (selected back in May 2005) was digital audio and podcasting. While the meeting notes are not yet updated, I’ve done a quick turn around on the audio recorded and posted them to the meeting notes page. Yes, “Podcast” is the big, electric magic word of the month. Hardly a day goes by now and someone is not mentioning it in email. I am now scheduled to do 2 college demos in the end of February. So no surprise we had a good turnout for our Friday meeting at Rio Salado College. Among the available audio from our demos/presenters you can hear about: Rio Salado College’s RioCast: Rio Salado College, the Maricopa college that specializes in distance learning, has just implemented a podcasting service for their wellness and diversity programs, as well as [...]

We were please to have as a guest to Maricopa on Januarry 27, Alice Bedard-Vorhees, from the Colorado Community Colleges Online. Alice is an experience online teacher, and was the recipient of the first Cross-Papers Fellowship from the League of Innovation in the Community College and K. Patricia Cross. She is an expert on engaging students in online activities, and shared her work that was part of Cross Paper 8: Increasing Engagement for Online and Face-to-Face Learners through Online Discussion Practice. So we had her do a morning workshop for our faculty as an over view of the techniques in Cross Paper 8. We don;t yet have a copy of her presentation online, but have posted a 60 minute recorded audio [13.5 Mb MP3]: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dd/engage06/bedard-vorhees.mp3 After this introduction, the participants went to tables according to the techniques they were most interested in discussion or sharing ideas about. They had about [...]

It’s my aim for our MCLI events to have as much content as possible be a part of our web sites, as well asfor those looking back at it, for those who were not in attendance. Even with speed-haste audio/video editing (not aided by a delay in getting source video), it took a while to get all of it posted our Faculty Convocation keynote presentation by Dr. Vincent Tnto on Promoting Student Success. We already have the digital photos from the day, but now we have audio and video. We got a DVD of the presentation from Maricopa College Television group who did the filming. It took more than 3 hours using Handbrake (which by the way, now has a Windows version) to rip the movie to a QuickTime .mp4 file (617 Mb!). I had thought there was a way to rip just the audio, but could not find it. [...]

We arrived Saturday at our cabin in Strawberry, AZ, for a 3 day weekend, to relax, and sample the freezing night time temperatures (if you have Sahara like images of Arizona, think again, we pegged in the low 20s F last night). Anyhow, on picking up the local paper, I noticed that last night the Pine Community Center was featuring a storytelling event called Tellebration! and pictured there was Ricardo Provencio, one of our storytelling faculty at South Mountain Community College’s Storytelling institute and also listed was Liz Warren, the faculty colleague who developed the idea for our Hero’s Journey web site. Tellebration is a worldwide event schedueld the weekend before American Thanksgiving, and the main site lists more that 160 places world wide where people gathered to hear local storytellers (though this community seemed to not have its event listed, this is a small town atmosphere in Pine ;-). [...]

I’m liking adding some audio recordings of our Ocotillo Online Learning Group monthly meetings to the notes. It should add value for people who cannot drive to a meeting. I’ve just posted the notes from our November 4 meeting about Testing Centers for Online Students. But we sure are not talking about high end ITConversations like production value. The recording is quick and dirty by placing my iRiver MP3 recorded in front of the room. It does well for speakers and can mostly pick up, though faint, questions from elsewhere in a classroom sized location. I decided to join the fray and add a little bit of introduction, using a Creative Commons audio instrumental I found by “Cjacks” at OpSound and me doing a cheesy quick intro into Audacity with my USB headset microphone. I am hoping Gardner Campbell does not listen in as he will recoil in audio disgust [...]

Even with podcasting being well over a year old, I am not subscribing to any particular feeds– I’ve not really found a source from where I want that much content. I had not even loaded any onto my Shuffle for the last 2-3 months. When I do listen, I am doing it the old fashioned way, downloading a select MP3 and moving it my pod manually (after hauling a sled of coal 5 miles through snow to get to my computer). On my Sunday run, however, I took a break form tunes, and listened to two podcasts from EDUCAUSE’s coverage of their big annual conference/carnival: A Conversation with Brian Lamb, mainly because Brian is a colleague, friend, and always phrases things in a low-key but practical, slightly sarcastic manner. His interview even foreshadowed what I wrote about blog commenting, when he refered to the “intoxicating high” of a blogger’s change [...]

I’ve been tinkering with my simple approach of using MovableType as a publisher engine to create podcast feeds and content listings for audio content that is used across several different web sites. While there are many ways one could go about this, I am finding this to be efficient and fast. I only have about 7 feeds set up, but they are pushing across multiple web sites, with different design layouts. This allows me to create a single directory of content and RSS files that can be accessed by any of our other PHP web pages. So the main podcast entry page lists all the casts on our site, and th elistings provide links to web sites connected to the audio, a description, a URL for the MP3 file, and now, stealing the idea from the EDUCAUSE blogs, the slick niftyplayer, and embedded flash audio player, e.g.: But by setting [...]