Webcast Academy

Stereo Mix - a reality.  I’m talking about the sound card option that had been removed on some Dell laptops and desktops purchased during the past few years.   The option was not available, on purpose.  This week, Dell released a new driver where the Stereo Mix option is a choice. My laptop is now letting me successfully record both sides of a Skype conversation.  I really did not believe it was going to work – but it does!  Here are my steps:

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Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind (freeware).

http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable

James/Eurominuteman 

 

This interncast was broadcasted on November 30, 2007.  The hosts discuss Second Life from the point of view of newbies.

Meeting 2.3.6
Resource Development, 2.4 Prep, and Solstice Planning
December 2, 2007

Solstice Webcastathon Sign up page
Interns (feel free to edit that page to add your webcasts)

Share your events with an individual, a group, or the whole world

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I'm back, finally. Things got extremely busy and I had to take a step back. Hopefully I can keep up with class 2.4 when it starts and finally complete the activities (or at least more than I have so far.) I have had some time to play with Audacity, but I still have a lot to learn. I haven't even started trying to record both ends of a phone call let alone moving on from there.

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 If you would like participate in the class of 2.4 you can apply and send us a note to let us know you're interested.  Once you've done so, please post a short introduction below.

The Class of 2.4 begins with an Open House on Jan. 13, 1800GMT First class Jan 20, 1900GMT

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On Wednesday November 7, 2007 I interviewed fellow Sacramento educator, Larry Ferlazzo. We discussed some of the organizing support for technology projects. Larry shared his experiences getting his school computer lab, and home computer project started. Here are the highlights:

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Webcast Academy Meeting 2.3.5 

Using and Bridging Different Webcast Environments

Sunday November 18, 2007

 

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Chat Log

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Today's new version of Skype fits with the Ustream activites here at the Academy:

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/

. . . An attempt to restore a kind of balance.

 

Every time I thought about my abortive attempt to record the Skype group conversation with Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel, a­nd a number of students from Carla's online class "Listening Plus," I felt bad— mostly because I didn't want the students to feel that what they had heard was typical of
international communication via Skype—
and I felt worse because several of them said that they were excited to be able to talk with "a real American."

Hoping to turn a colossal lemon into some lemonade, I transcribed what I said in the original Skype recording and re-re­corded it.

If you click ­HERE, you'll be taken to a webpage with a written introduction, then a link to the actual re-recording.

D. O. 

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Video Archive of our experimentation with Ustream
November 12, 2007


Software used: Webcam Max

Chat Log Below­

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I found a list of interesting freeware software for and around sound cards. Who will help evaluating the best ones? 

http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?words=%28%2Bsound+%2Bcard%29&typ...

­Webcast Academy Session 2.3.4
Show Management and Post Show Audio Editing
Sunday ­November 11, 2007
Chat Log Below

 

 

12:50:10 JoseR : Hi all!

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Oy, vey ist mir . . . . 

This past week, Carla Arena,
Erika Cruvinel, and I had
a Skype conversation with
Carla's online students in
Brasília, Brazil. Carla set up
the streaming, and my job
was to record the session.
We did­ a test about 20 minutes
before the session began, and
everything seemed to be
working OK. I was able to
record everything, but when
I checked it later, the results were . . . not stellar.­

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Screencast! Nicecast Set-up for Mac and USB headsets­

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RoMac Sound Card Management allows you set up each of your programs that use a sound with its own individual levels for a sound card, and then launch the program. When you quit the selected program, the RoMac Sound Card Management utility will return all the sound card levels back to normal. It works also for Windows Vista (freeware).

Freeware/Donation http://www.romacsoftware.com/SoundManagement.htm

Are you fed up with carefully setting the audio mixer on your Windows computer only to have the settings changed by another application or when you reboot? 

Do you need to store and recall different sets of mixer settings quickly and easily?

Then QuickMix is for you (freeware). http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/

 Not for Windows Vista...