September workshop

Another full-on dive into audio technology...

We looked at RSS feeds...and experimented with Anna & Dilys' website for Everyday Technology. Anna & Dilys have several blogs and a wiki, connected to the above website. Dilys showed Alison Springdoo - she uses it to record herself reading chapters to send to her mother in New Zealand. She also used Springdoo to sing and send a happy birthday to hertwo year old granddaughter. The personal again meets the workplace with social software...

Bronwyn filmed Alison pronouncing sounds for her ESOL students. Now we just have to get the film out of the camera and on to the computer to edit and load on to our learning support website for students...one step at a time.

feeds, aggregators & aggravation

interesting discussion at our workshops - always - great brains under great strain! Alison commented that the interfaces & processes behind audio software are not yet user-friendly - true enough. But when you think about it, nothing about computers is really intuitive. What's intuitive about ones and zeroes? We just get used to technology with practise and then it becomes invisible/second nature. (Have to think of my grandfather and how disgusted he was with electric hotplates because he couldn't leave the kettle on without it boiling dry!)
Anna & Dilys, we were all cursing about the overwhelming amount of ways to syndicate and podcast and feeds and aggregators and and....and as I said, I think we're used to a Microsoft world where it was enough to know your way around a few applications. What we need is a road map! So, at eleven in the evening, which means it may be an idea hatched from a brain with more zeroes than ones in it, I propose we work up a conceptual map of podcasting (or at least find one on the web?! I like Feedburner's graphic for a starting point). Blog me if I'm deluded!

September 4 workshop

the training room was buzzing with audio-o-o-o-o.....

How to - Ipaq

This wiki has a section on voice/mp3 for those who are trialling IPAQs

http://ipaq.wikispaces.com/