Hi Readers. I hope your family had as nice of a 4th of July as my family did. We are all paying for it with sunburn this week. I also forgot I am not in my twenties and went tubing, now my arms cant reach above my shoulders. Such is the price of fun! Now that I am back I started working on a podcast. It was pretty frustrating at first. I took about ten takes to get it right. I then went to Gcast and signed up, quick and painless. When I tried to upload my recordingI realized my recording wasn't in MP3 form. I came to learn I didn't have the capacity to save it in MP3 form. I tried downloading Audacity, and that worked nice, but still couldn't save MP3's without downloading another program. That program was Wavepad, and it did have the ability to save MP3s, and do the actual recording too! So I stopped using Audacity and just went to Wavepad, which did all I currently needed.
(http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html) Follow that link to get to the free download for Wavepad. click on the GET IT NOW, and you have one stop shopping.
Then I went back to Gcast and uploaded my MP3. It was as simple as pie! They also made it very easy to add it to my blog. I just added a HTML gadget, and copied the code that Gcast offered. I even added it to the class Wiki, which was not as user friendly, but still pretty straight forward.
I can definitely see how this could add to our educational toolbox. We could record lectures for our students, enabling them to listen when conveint, such as during their drive to work. This would also enable them to access the information at a speed they are comforitable with. It would be especially useful for those students that are auditory learners. Merle Rogers is using this technology with his students, allowing them to read chapters of the classes textbooks on a podcast for extra credit. What a great use of the medium, and free labor!
-Mike
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