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The agenda was the same for the 12 o’clock, 4 o’clock, and 6 o’clock classes:

I confirmed appointment times verbally. (Other teaching duties came up that had to take precedence over sending 54 reminder emails….) An introduction to podcasting answered the question, “What is a podcast,” and I demonstrated the program Audacity and the service Gabcast–students will be creating podcasts and posting links to them on their blogs. After the break, we viewed YouTube tutorials on Audacity, students worked in pairs to create test recordings on Gabcast, and were given 5 minutes at the end to talk to the members of their pod and plan when they would meet to record their podcasts.

Tutorial by Fabian Brown for installing Audacity and the LAME encoder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5K1ZsoO1sU

Mixing with Audacity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IqWoWu8gU

Gabcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIashxaJnzo

Individual conferences will take the place of regular classes on Wednesday 4/16, Thursday 4/17, Monday 4/21, and Tuesday 4/22. For those days you need only appear for your scheduled conference with me and meet with the students you’re recording your podcast with.

Our Gabcast channel is #8538, and called “A Blog of One’s Own.” The URL is http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=8538. Podcasts recorded on our channel will automatically appear on the Gabcast page, and in the feed on the right side of the page here on T Blog.

If you create your podcast with Audacity, after exporting it to an MP3 file you may be able to simply attach it to a post on your blog. If that doesn’t work, create a user account (it’s called getting an internet library card) at the Internet Archive–all you have to provide is an email address and choose a password. The URL is http://www.archive.org, and the Upload button appears right on the front page.

The handouts “How to Podcast” and HW 42 to 46 were distributed. You can get them from the Documents for ITW 101 page here on T Blog.

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