Mobile Podcast 7th August 2009

It was such a lovely morning in Wales, and I had been spurred into an early morning breakfast blog post about the significance of today's date. This prompted me to consider the nature of 'A Blogger' it is an interesting question to ponder and certainly kept me entertained on the journey to work, I hoipe that you enjoy it, please feel free to respond.... remember comments are the life blood of a blog ( many thanks AK for being top commenter)

Podcasting/podcatching for the beginner NECC 2009

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Podcasting! Everybody seems to be doing it. If you've been afraid to jump into the podcasting waters, join us and learn how! - Larry Anderson, National Center for Technology Planning with Anna Adam, Lucy Gray, Helen Mowers, Craig Nansen and Julene Reed Monday, 6/29/2009, 8:30am 9:30am WWCC Ballroom C

Audacity and MP3 conversion on Eeepc

The final element has now been achieved, and would have been done much sooner had this 'old' dragon thought carefully about what he was doing in the Linux command line. As you can see below audacity recordings can now be converted into mp3 format.

Thanks to daria ( a french blogger-le blogue!) and his link to this simple and yet so important piece of code:

To compile put the lame file you downloaded in your user folder
Right click it and select extract all followed by ok
Go into the lame folder you just made
Click tools then open console window
Type sudo apt-get install build-essential
then type su
after you enter your password type ./configure
then type make
then type make install
That should be it Audacity should find the file automatically.

So simple but it works, and once in audacity preferences it will happily find the 'lame encoder' Now Eeepc900 is a fully functioning podcasting machine...................the podfather has to try it out......soon.

GREAT NEWS

Our European friends have joined the world of podcasting as Daniela has produced her first podcast on Podomatic

It is a video-podcast of their school orchestra playing the European Anthem ( Ode to Joy ) give it a listen and don't forget to leave Daniela a comment...

World Book Week

As part of Cefn Fforest Primary School's celebration of World Book Day ( Week )we had a variety of activities in school ranging from a 'Book Fair' and book related lessons ( book cover designs and book reviews). Included were visits to school by authors and illustrators ( some organised by our local School Library Service, and some through school contacts ).
To finish the week of activities on Friday 9th March Jan Woodward and Kath Jenkins visited school to talk to our Year 3 pupils about their new book 'Five Fairies go on Holiday' which has just been published and is available through amazon.com.
We managed to podcast the question and answer session.


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