Podcasting Progress
Sunday 18 September 2005 at 10:11 pm We have been working on a new show for Radio Sandaig. After much burning of midnight and lunchtime oil, it is pretty near finished.Slightly more professional than previous shows, now with added background music. The Editing took an age, I did a fair bit of it at home this time and am beginning to come to grips with Audacity.
Spent most of Saturday morning tidying it up after the children had finished most of the editing on Friday.
Sunday has been spent exploring the
How To Publish a Podcast on the iTunes Music Store and working out how to make a suitable rss feed. I made a simple SuperCard project to create podcast feeds, which taught me a good deal about them. The new feed validates with scripting.com's validation form. also using MagpieRSS to parse the rss feed to create the new Radio Sandaig home page. To get everything I wanted from the feed (mainly the enclosure url) I had to get the patched version of rss_parse.inc as described here How to handle enclosures in Magpie.
So a busy day where I pushed my slight knowledge of RSS and PHP.
the new show should be on Radio Sandaig on Tuesday.
Getting into blogging
Saturday 17 September 2005 at 09:55 am Getting into blogging A new guide to blogging from the Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE) at LTS, part of the Scottish Schools Digital Network Mentions both this place and the Sandaig Otters as examples.I think the children will be very pleased when I show them on Monday.
After getting over the excitement of incoming links I noticed the guide to blogging is really good.
Hopefully we will have a few more classes blogging and them we can start children commenting back and forwards.
radio Sandaig in production
Monday 12 September 2005 at 8:27 pm As the children blogged we have a new podcast in production. I am hoping to do one a month this session. We got a lot of the recording done last week, but the two main presenters are off this week. As I really want it out on schedule I may step in and do some of the editing at home.I have been in more command this time, the last show, last session was nearly all organised and edited by the children. This session I hope to get to that point with a better sound quality and a more realistic amount of content (that one was nearly half and hour long, this time we are going to aim at 15 minutes).
I am already noticing a willingness by the children to give suggestions as to content and presentation to each other, especially the ones involved last year. Their use of voice and appreciation of audience has improved too. I am going to try a podcast myself, discussing podcasting with the crew soon.
