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Podcast

http://www.switchpod.com/users/ob735/feed.xml

A brief discussion on tagging and sharing, their use in popular websites and how they carry accross into elearning.

Reflection

Installing all the recommended software was straightforward (already had Audacity installed, so only needed to install Juice in the end).

Started with subscribing to a few of the podcasts recommended in the course webpage and the podcasts that were already up from the other students to get an idea of what to record on.

Spent a while trying to figure out why Juice wasn't finding any podcasts to download on any of the RSS feeds I'd added.  It turned out to be that my laptop was trying to go through the proxy server at work, but I was at home.  Switched it off when I realised and everything worked perfectly.

In recording the podcast, as with any presentation, I planned what I was going to say first and then recorded the audio.  I did the recording in stages stopping during the natural pauses, relistening and possibly re-recording each few seconds.

I did wonder whether this would make it a bit jumpy, but listening back to it, it doesn't seem  that noticable and allowed a process of reviewing while creating (as  I would normally use in a blog post).

There is unfortunately a slight hum on the recording, which I suspect is down to the quality of the microphone.  Given more time I would have experimented with audacity to see if there was a way to filter this out, but suspect it would be impossible without cutting some of my vocal sound.

It would probably have been beneficial to have spoken loader and closer to the microphone to make the audio clearer as my voice is quite quiet in places.