I'm sorry I missed the Webcast today for the Webcast Academy, but that notwithstanding I have been profiting greatly from all the discussions there and on EdtechTalk. I just started a Delicious account and found Writely for a Chinese professor who wants to have a collaborative Chinese writing project in the lab. The Edtech Talk newscast was a great idea. For the record, I enjoyed the talk between Doug and Dave spanning the northern part of the continent from the end of August.

Trevor

I thought I would post a brief interview that involved recording both ends of a Skype conversation. It finally turned out to be quite easy, requiring nothing more than setting Audio Hijack Pro to the Skype application and clicking record.

What I was most pleased about was the complete lack of latency. I did not hear any feedback or echo of myself in the headset. Another important feature for me was the quality of the recording with an iSight camera (firewire), as this is what we will use in our Mac lab for the Japanese students. Also the ease of use makes it possible to set up as a class assignment.

Unfortuntely a Persian teacher was meeting with students in Ryan's office when I called -- it is a little disurbing and for a recording that I would archive I would call back at another time. Still, it provides evidence for me that the recording will be satisfactory when other students are talking simultaneously.

I have been asked now by a Japanese Faculty to set up the language lab to record Skype conversations between students here and in Japan. This adds a very important interactive feature to our oral proficiency assessment. Thanks to the Webcast academy for the confidence to say 'yes, we can do that!' Of course, now I really do have to complete this first assignment.

Trevor

LARC is giving a workshop to 14 Vietnamese educators this weekend, and I would like to bring them into the chat room for the broadcast this Sunday to let them experience the power of an interactive live broadcast. I hope this is appropriate.

I tried the order that Jeff mentioned in the last broadcast for sound editing, normalizing and then amplifying. This produced really great results in recording Spanish question prompts in Sound Studio 3, so thanks for the tip.

I enjoyed the digital chalkie broadcast, especially all the detail about preparing a school class for blogging.

Trevor

OK, this is pretty primitive. A D-, but as my son did at the age of 2 1/2 when he turned on a new Mac clamshell notebook, I clapped my hands and said 'I did it!'. The recording was made using the iSight camera mike, as my other M-audio proved to be too low in Sunday's webcast, on a G4 desktop with 450 mhz processor and 1 GB of ram. I followed the instructions on the MacDev Center recommended in the Book of Webcasting. I downloaded Audio Hijack and Soundflower, played around with the configurations until it (almost) worked.

The next step for me is to get another USB interface, possibly even a mixer or pre-amp, and try this again. It might be that the lack of processing speed prevents a quality recording. As always this is a journey and I'm happy to have made the first step.

My message from Safari is that this is experimental and they cannot guarantee it's going to work so don't send them any error messages.  Hopefully, it will suffice.  I did not quite follow Jeff's instructions here about .rtf vs. .html, but I'll just post this shall I? and see how it looks.

Hello, everyone!  This is Trevor Shanklin.  Kiralyfi is the Hungarian word for prince.  I lost the title when my son was born, but use it anyway.

Trevor