Casting for Pod

I enjoy fishing.  So when the opportunity to go Podcasting came up I thought I’d give it a go.  Do Pod taste like Cod with a slight apple flavor?  What happened to the “i” part when Podcasting?  Is it because you are sharing and not being selfish with your Pod? (Drum fill)

Anyway, I have gotten around to creating a Podcast on Blended Learning.  I created it using MyPodcast Recorder.  I set up an account with MyPostcast.com and used their software to upload, but alas more technical difficulties.  Since I’m not one to beat my head against the wall too many times, I decided to host the podcast back on Screencast.

Check it out here:

http://www.screencast.com/users/oakvilleboy/folders/Default/media/c405f975-f4aa-46d1-9aed-7b29837d21ef

Gettin’ Jingy with it

Well, after many technical glitches I have produced an instructional video podcast that I could use in my video classes.  You can find it at http://www.screencast.com/users/oakvilleboy

You may see a familar face in the video.  Enjoy.

I’ve been Skyped again!

I continue to explore tools and applications and I think I’m well past the 20^th account I’ve setup for one service or another.  I really like Skype as a free tool, however, I’ve experienced an annoying habit it has.  On more than one occasion, Skype has alerted me to an instant message to which I responded immediately with a text message.  Little did I know or explore more in depth to find that the “instant” message or invitation was sent days ago.  My apologies to Saskatoon.slice and Negra Linda for distemporal Skyping.  Does anyone else have similar stories of “interesting” behavious from these tools we’ve been using.  I’ve noticed that the MyPodcast podcasts come with a free ad for (you guessed it) MyPodcast.

Technicalities

Ok.  So I’ve added my Picasa web album using my del.icio.us tags (which is cool), and the pictures are there, however, I have been having trouble adding captions to explain the process, which is how to save YouTube videos to your computer.  I hope you can follow it the way it is.  I’ve had to do most of my work for this class from my office computer because (gasp!) I still have dial-up at home.  The problem here is that our school has the internet filtered so that certain sites don’t go through to the students (a good feature right).  Unfortunately it seems the filters are blocking some features of the picasa web gallery.  So I will leave it like that for now and fix it later. 

That certainly can be another topic of discussion.  That is, with the use of more and more online tools, there seems to be more technical issues as well.  For Jing I had to install the .NET framework and that took a couple days to wrangle the problems.  If we expect an online learning environment for our students to be the norm, we are going to need a lot more technicians.

Playing with Toys

Now I’ve scowered the web completely and have seen all the blogs and I beleive I may have commented on them all.  It is definitely a learning experience to see others’ points of view and liberally steal their ideas for your own benefit.  But hey, nobody really expects teachers to respect copyright either now do they?  But seriously folks, of course that is the real point anyway.  Everyone has great ideas I’m looking forward to see more of them.  And now that I’ve got everyone’s RSS feeds I not be able to miss anything.  Some things just work so darn good.

I’ve added names to my Skype contacts and have set up a Picasa web gallery (which still needs to be tweeked).  I have set up Jing, however, I have not had quiet moment where I could narrate a demonstration.  That will be next.