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A book talk with Susan van Gelder and Sharon Peters Recommended Books Getting Things Done by David Allen The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens Empowering Students with Technology by Alan November The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen The Long Tail by Chris Anderson Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine

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Finally able to stream today due to much help from Durff and Susan!  Thanks again you two.  Had some flaky issues with Audacity.  I had to start my audio recording and then switch to Stereo mix so I could record the other voices. 

I know this is not a great audio, but despite all of my issues of late, Jose and a few others were able to help me through this. I had other issues afterwards so I was not able to add intro or music. The echo or buzzing is audio equipment. I am just excited that it actually streamed and Jose can confirm it! YEH!

Webcasting is about letting it flow, letting it take you to unexpected places, voices and encounters. However, the backstage is about planning, preparation. It seems paradoxical, but, in fact, it isn't. To let the voices around you feel at ease, the group of webcasters must have an idea on where they want to head. The final end might be unpredictable, but they need to know what they are doing there to makes everyone comfortable and confident to speak their minds.

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Sigh! This has not been a productive week for me at WCA. I've got two shows that I could edit and post, but I'm wiped. Calendar is starting to get too full. In addition I can't make the class tonight. I'm feeling really flaky at this point. I can get the show(s) edited in the next few days, but is there a "due date" (like tonight), or can I send it along later?

For all of you Grey's Anatomy Fans- this is a discussion I had with another avid fan recaping the season finale and giving our predictions for Season 4 of Grey's Anatomy. It may sound like high school gossip unless you watch the show!! We had a great time talking (her mic and internet connection were not the best, but we got by). We had about 6 in the chat room!

Carla and I just had a great game of stream-football, where we practiced how to kick each other out of the stream in order to take over. Quite easy, really. It was also fun just to talk.

It's funny how you can get close to people simply through chat, but as soon as you can hear each other's voice and talk and react, it becomes intensified. After only just a couple times it feels like talking to an old friend. 

 

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Here is a picture of my audio set-up. The resulting webcasting is uploaded elsewhere...
This is my checklist that worked today:

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Susan generously gave off her time to help me and then Jose joined us too. I grudgingly accepted his advice. The result is posted here.  

This is my first show.  My guests were Alice Mercer, Jennifer Wagner, and, my daughter, Ali Parisi.  Without them, I would have had quite a chat with myself and listeners would have been bored to tears.  So thank you, Guests, for making my show enjoyable.  You are all great conversationalists.

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Just wanted to let everyone know that the automatic recording of the stream (Sandbox A only) is once again functional.  Details in the FAQ (Publishing category).

http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1194

A few days ago, Alice Mercer and I arranged a practice session for ourselves so that we could continue to practice streaming, capturing audio and general trouble shooting. Alice has the first part of the conversation and what follows is the audio from when I kicked the stream and took over. Little did I know that I would lose Alice for a bit and would have to babble by myself. We were joined by Lisa Durff who reported that there was no sound but we were pleasantly surprised that the sound was there all along. I did some editing so that this audio could be about 10 minutes long.

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After the great success yesterday of converting to mp3 and uploading an audio file - with more than a little help from Susan and Jose - I thought I'd try basic streaming. I listened several times to Jeff's screencast, pausing as he went, double checked and got that wretched error message. This time: incorrect password. Has it changed?  Illya phoned me last week and dictated it to me.

Last week, I was having some trouble with Nicecast and Skype, and Lee was kind enough to take on my problem and help solve it. While I am still a little unsure of the complete technical description of the problem, Lee was able to walk me through my settings tonight and here are some things that we discovered.

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Finally, I was able to get my settings correct with Lee's help and get my practice streaming session done. Thanks, Lee!

I think I first heard the term; "Open Source Learning" in chat in the Webcast Academy.  I thought I knew what it was. I figured it referred to us choose what content we wanted to learn on the internet.  I heard Will Richardson refer to ideas on the Read-Write Web and the like.  I also keep up with other superbloggers like Wesley Fryer, Miguel Ghulin, David Warlick, Christopher Sessums, Steven Downes just to name a few.  I even particpated in K12Online last year and Web Heads in Action Online Conference this year along with Necc2007 not to mention everything happening at edtechtalk.  Nevertheless understanding comes through the practice or application and not theory.  Not until Webcast Academy did I begin to understand Open Source Learning. It just all clicked today.  I got a call from Kevin Sandridge a teacher in central Florida, we had a long talk about web 2.0 and implications for Second Language Learners, Yesterday Susan was asking about classes to recruit for youthbridges. I had a conversation with Chris Craft about a project on digital storytelling on Friday.  And Today it just came all together.  Dennis was uploading his file to Webcast Academy. It didn't show up in the flash player.  I thought I would help out.  How hard could it be.  80 minutes later with Susan patiently waiting on the sidelines we defeated the audacity gremlins and sucessfully uploaded the file.  I felt great and was happy to be able to contribute.  Open Source Learning means building on collective knowledge.  NOW, I've GOT IT!

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... I'm dizzy... Trying , with Jose's help, now, to upload a version friendly to all players

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Reading Treasures in the Language Classroom

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

 Frederick Douglass

This will be a piloting project with the LearningwithComputers group.

The idea behind the show is to give voice to LwCers to discuss the topic of the month. In this case, the topic being discussed there is '''reading'''. We'd try it out a first time and depending on our post-show analysis,we'll consider making it a once-a-month encounter.

The goal is to make even stronger bonds through the inclusion of voice in the group with synchronous interactive sharing of ideas. Also, for the educators who can't be present, they'll have a chance to listen to the podcast with practical ideas that could be used in their classrooms.

I'll invite other Webcastacademy members to join me to share the roles while streaming and sharing ideas on how to best carry it out. People to be contacted: Erika Cruvinel, Illya, Cris Costa, Dennis Oliver and Dennis Newson. Special guests: Gladys Baya and Claudia Bellusci.

We could try to have two streamers, in Sandbox A and B. Somebody who would be in charge of the chat area, welcoming people and keeping the text discussion flowing. A host that would be in charge of moderating participation in the Skype Conference.

Next steps:

• contact interns. Done
  

•  Define the best time for the show. Done

• Send an invitation to LwC asking the ones interested to let us know their skype ID. Done

•  Planning the show; resources; links; examples - On the way
  

 

Carla Arena

A Curious EFL Educator

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