Edublogs Tutorials

I will be on air again next Sunday at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST so please persevere along with me - I think the concept is worth the effort

Talkcast No 2

Thanks to those who joined in today from Florida and Ireland

All didn’t go smoothly, but it’s a bit of a learning curve.  I think I clicked the mouse when I shouldn’t have and broke my end of the conversation.  Pat joining in made my voice go ‘gargly’ for no reason - so it was a bit of fun in the end

Trying to monitor and queue conversations when you can’t hear what folks are saying is hilariously difficult to do.

I have checked the recording on the Talkshoe site - was up in about 10 minutes
    Edublogs Tutorials Talkcast

and fortunately I haven’t added in any mumblings about the software or my ineptitude - phew!

Following a reasonably successful Talkcast using TalkShoe, I invite you to come and join in with the conversation next week at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST Sunday 27th January

Check if this time works for you

We will be discussing Edublogs and web 2.0 tools

Please feel free to email me with more specific things you would like to discuss and I’ll add them to this post

Many thanks to the patience of Patricia Donaghy from Ireland who joined me and helped iron out some of the operational issues, as we were both newcomers

This Talkcast is now available on the TalkShoe site - search for 12223 and it will be on your screen to listen to or to download. Please be aware that the forst couple of minutes of the recording sound like I’m gargling with water. It is also available on iTunes under Edublogs Tutorials Talkcast or the fresh (ungargling) edited version on Edublogs Tutorials GCast with in and outros

Have a look at Patricia’s post Join in Interactive Discussions with TalkShoe

In order to get the widget player thingy in your sidebar:

1. Log in to your TalkShoe account
2. at the bottom of your player, there’s a ‘get & share’ button
3. click on this and then choose ‘embed’
4. click the ‘copy’ button to get the code
5. Log into Edublogs dashboard
6. Click on “Presentation” in the main navigation bar.
7. Click on “Widgets” in the sub-navigation bar.
8. Get yourself a “Text” widget - scroll down to the “Text Widgets”section and give yourself a new widget by increasing the number in the drop down box by one.
9. Drag your new widget (They’re alphabetical) to the sidebar where you’d like it to appear.
10. Click on the edit button for your new widget (On the right side).
11. Paste in the code
12. hit save
13. take a look at your new TalkShoe player - voila

Hi folks

Following last week’s effort, I shall be trying again tomorrow evening at 8pm GMT - that’s 3pm EST and I think 12:00 PST

Feel free to join me - if I get it all right this time

Well despite my best efforts, Saturday’s talkcast was a bit of a failure.  I did rehersals and they went fine but the live event was dismal.  I think I was a bit ambitious with my aspirations as a broadcaster and wanted to have an all bells and whistles effort, but ensuring your mic is live always helps!

I managed to get a pre-recorded intro in, but with poor quality,  and the live talk and what could have been some discussion seemed not to be functioning.  I have a suspicion that at some point, my mic was muted out and I’d missed it as I was reading from a set of notes.

Apologies to anyone who was listening to the sound of silence, whilst I was chatting away happily to myself - still, some lessons learned

Pdonaghy,  Clickspice – alias Alec Dorling who were there but  I couldn’t get to them.  I did get a message, but by the time I’d seen it, pd had gone.  Sorry for being a poor host

Ho hum.  Not to worry - Ill be having another go next week at the same time - I’ll keep you posted - or let me know if you are planning to have a go and you can have a sympathetic ear

Hi all

Happy new year to you all and welcome to this next adventure.

I came across Talkshoe some time back but I was jarred into action when Steve Hargadon invited me and others to join him in a talkcast. This is quite simple an open broadcast, like internet radio, but with the opportunity for others to simply listen, or to take a step in and contribute. The latter requires that you have a Talkshoe account but it is all free as usual.

How to talk

You can join in by text chat or by audio via Skype, VOIP or dial in on your phone or cell. Having listened in on Steve’s, it would appear that there were lots of difficulties with feedback and mic levels.

I used Talkshoe’s own internet phone system Shoephone and it worked without doing anything at all - very easy and free, like Skype.

I always use a headset microphone to speak into and I leave the earpiece lead out of my PC and have the sound come through the speakers

Oh yes. Talkshoe also allows you to record and publish your discussion and to have it listed in iTunes as a podcast so archiving a discussion couldn’t be easier

How could this apply to the classroom?

Collaborative projects

Visiting speakers shared out with other schools

Discussion on visits that more than one school/class have taken part in

As usual, I am stepping well outside my comfort zone and technical abilities to investigate the uses of this tool. If you would like to join me on Saturday, please do

Remember you can

a) lurk

b) text chat

c) be brave and join me

in the case of all of you being A’s, I will just talk about the technology and my recent journey. If you would like to join in, we’ll have a chat about Edublogs and the innovative ways you are using it.

How It Works

Well despite my best efforts, Saturday’s talkcast was a bit of a failure. I did rehersals and they went fine but the live event was dismal. I managed to get a pre-recorded intro in, but with poor quality, and the live talk and what could have been some discussion seemed not to be functioning. I have a suspicion that at some point, my mic was muted out and I’d missed it as I was reading from a set of notes.

Apologies to

Pdonaghy, Clickspice – alias Alec Dorling who were there but I couldn’t get to them. I did get a message, but by the time I’d seen it, pd had gone. Sorry for being a poor host

Ho hum. Not to worry - Ill be having another go next week at the same time - I’ll keep you posted