Skills:
- Be able to use the Webcast Academy website
- Produce and publish listenable audio that is encoded at Academy audio specifications
Screencasts:
General
- Class of 2.4 Intro Screencast
- How to participate in group skype chat
- How to post audio
- How to use GMT time - What time is it?
- Two Audacity Screencasts - #1 and #2
- Configuring Audio Specifications in Audacity
- Setting Preferences in Audacity - Windows
- Audio editing (amplify, compression, noise removal)
- How to deal with ID3 tags
- ID3 Tags with ID3-TagIT
Meeting Agenda & Assignments Below
Meeting Agenda
- Welcome to the Academy
- What is a 'collaborative community'?
- Everyone's a teacher, everyone's a learner
You should> We can... ,- Aim to make the Academy better than when you found it
- Site Orientation http://www.webcastacademy.net/Site_Orientation
- Look for answers in the FAQ, Book of Webcasting, & Search
- Post questions to the Forums or Group Skype Chat
- Post reflections in your Blog
- Adding signature to Account
- Post all audio by clicking 'create content/audio'
- Joining skype chat - not going crazy
- What is a 'collaborative community'?
- Hardware & Software Requirements
Assignments:
- Post a short text introduction in the Class of 2.4 Introductions thread.
- Record a 1-2 minute audio introduction using audio specifications (Filename: your-name-Introduction-2007-10-xx.mp3) and publish it (create content/audio) on this site.
- After participating in or listening to the recording of our first meeting and completing the above assignments, post a text blog entry (create content/blog entry) about anything related to your academy experience.
- Post any questions in the forums or group skype chat.
- If you are interested in connecting with others in a smaller group during the week, add your info to the Webcast Academy wiki.