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Podcast: Uhrmacher, Kemp, Text 100, Second Life

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:07:00 +0000

Podcast: 48:05 duration, 44 MB MP3 - Posted October 25, 2006
Audio, recorded October 24, 2006.
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Kemp-Uhrmacher Skype conversation in and about Second Life
This is the presentation SJSU Educator Jeremy Kemp did last night with Aaron Uhrmacher, Senior Account Executive at Text 100. Kemp was in the class, Uhrmacher was in another part of the country. Despite being thousands of miles apart, they both presented to the class in real time side by side on the screen from within the virtual world called Second Life. The tool Uhrmacher used to talk to the class was Skype. It was a wonderful immersive experience.

Listening Notes
I will be the first to admit, the audio here is lacking in parts. It is much better than the first podcast I did of a Skype conversation. Sometimes I learn as much by what goes wrong as by what goes right. Next time I will have a wireless mic on the speaker. Please, the audio is worth the fuss I think! The presentation was great. Kemp and Uhrmacher were superb. I used Ecamm's Skype Call Recorder to capture the conversation, Quicktime Pro to convert it to WAV, Levelator to bring up the low points and to moderate the peaks and Audacity to do final prep and, with the LAME encoder, to convert it to MP3.

Next Podcast: Student Reaction
In the next podcast we will listen to a conversation by the students about the Second Life Presentation.

Podcast: Students talk about their podcasts

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:52:00 +0000

Podcast: 24:32 duration, 22.47 MB MP3 - Posted October 20, 2006
Audio, recorded October 17, 2006.
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Great Ideas for Podcasts!
Journalism 163 Mid-term discussion
Students in Journalism 163 discuss the mid-term assignment, which is to do a podcast. In this in-class conversation they are talking about the ideas they have for their podcasts. The students discuss the format of their podcasts, the subjects of their podcasts and who their audiences are.

Podcast: My JACC sesssion on podcasting

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:54:00 +0000

Podcast: 42.54 duration, 39.2 MB MP3 - Posted October 16, 2006
Audio, recorded October 14, 2006.
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My Podcast Session at JACC
This is the session I did at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges Northern California Conference at SJSU on October 14. The topic is Journalism is a Conversation, Podcasting and Journalism. In the audience are students from junior colleges and from SJSU.

Update: Tue Oct 17 06:53:53 PDT 2006

Here is the PowerPoint that was shown along with the presentation. Note: the videos included in the original version have been removed from this PowerPoint download to simplify download.
Correction (1) - In the audio you will hear me use the term "horse and buggy" what I meant to say and what was displayed in the PowerPoint was "horseless carriage."
Correction (2) The person's named in the credits were individuals whose input to me through conversations helped me put together this presentation. They were not involved directly with production of this podcast or the associated PowerPoint.

Podcast: Conversation with Steve Greene

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:08:00 +0000

Podcast 31: 27:04 duration, 24.7 MB MP3 - Posted October 09, 2006
Raw audio, recorded October 06, 2006.
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After a casual lunch Steve Sloan and Professor Steve Greene discuss "new journalism"
Included in this discussion is the ethics of anonymous blogging as it relates to journalism, objectivity verses transparency and how new journalism may in fact be very much like very old journalism from 100 years ago.

Edupodder Podcast: Phil Wolff speaks to Journalism 163

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:28:00 +0000

Podcast 30: 01:21:46 duration, 74.9 MB MP3 - First Posted Sep. 27, 2006 Raw audio, recorded September 26, 2006.
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Here you can hear the unedited presentation to our Journalism 163 class at San Jose State University by Phil Wolff, the Managing Editor for the online magazine Skype Journal. Wolff speaks here about Skype, the recent events surrounding the proposed ban of Skype at SJSU and the world of Web 2.0 technologies. Here is his post in Skype Journal about the talk. As always, all opinions given are those of the speakers.

Scoble speaks to our class

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:29:00 +0000

Podcast 29, 1:35:57 duration, 87.85 MB MP3 - Posted Sep. 18, 2006
Scoble's Class Presentation, recorded September 12, 2006.
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This presentation by Robert Scoble was recorded during the third meeting of our class, Journalism 163. This unedited presentation is targeted toward journalism and mass communications students. It is presented here just as it happened. Scoble talks about his days at SJSU, how he got into blogging, the impact of blogging and how the worlds of journalism, business and advertising have been changed by blogs. He gives a lot of advice to the students in the class and answers their questions. For an excellent analysis of this presentation please see this post by SJSU Professor Cynthia McCune.

Podcast Note: All opinions given, as always in our podcasts, are those of the speakers, not of SJSU or The School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Burgers and Beer with Scoble

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:50:00 +0000

Edupodder Podcast 28: 42:51 duration, 39.22 MB MP3 - Posted Sep. 13, 2006
Candid conversation, recorded September 12, 2006.
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This conversation with Robert Scoble was recorded before the third meeting of our class, Journalism 163. This unedited conversation happened before our class. Present in this podcast is Professor Lilly Buchwitz, Journalism Student Mark Powell, Professor Cynthia McCune and myself.

Remembering

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:50:00 +0000

JMC163 Podcast: Class August 29, 2006

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:03:00 +0000

JMC 163 Fall 2006 Podcast 02, 01:07:31 duration, 61.82 MB MP3 - Posted Sep. 04, 2006
Session of Journalism 163 class, recorded August 29, 2006.
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This is the first meeting of our class, Journalism 163. This recording is pretty much raw audio of most of the class and is posted here to enhance student's learning experiences. Special in this podcast, guest speaker Stephanie Quilao, who blogs at Back in Skinny Jeans, tells J163 students that the growth of blogs and other new media technologies makes this a good time to start a media career.

Edupodder Podcast: Introduction to Journalism 163

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:43:00 +0000

Edupodder Podcast 27, 07:11 duration, 6.6 MB MP3 - Posted Aug. 21, 2006
Cynthia McCune and Steve Sloan discuss "JMC163".
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An introduction to Journalism 163. This is a multi-media journalism course in The School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU. We will be focusing on Web 2.0 technologies including blogging and podcasting. This podcast was recorded on Aug 21, 2006, at San Jose State. The first meeting of the class is 6pm on Tuesday, August 29, in Dwight Bentel Hall, room 224, at SJSU. If you are an SJSU student interested in taking the course, please show up!

Journalism 163 Syllabus Is Here

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:42:00 +0000

Journalism 163 - New Media in Journalism
Fall 2006, Section 1, Tues. 6:00 - 8:45 p.m., DBH 226

Thanks principally to the work of Cynthia McCune, the course syllabus is here:

Computers make lousy recorders for podcasting

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:53:00 +0000

A computer is a lousy camera and also a lousy tape recorder
If you are planning to do field recording you should have equipment designed for the job. No serious photographer would attach a webcam to a laptop computer and take it outside expecting to do serious photography with it. Will it work? yes. But, quality will suffer and so will usability and reliability. Serious photographers use serious digital cameras to take their pictures and then upload the pictures to do post production using programs like PhotoShop.

Yet folks all the time are doing audio recording right into their computers. Folks kludge mics onto their laptops and use Garageband to grab audio. Will it work? yes. But again I believe quality will suffer and so will usability and reliability. Where computers shine is not in capturing content in the field. By this I mean the recording of good pictures, or the recording of good audio. That type of recording is best left to dedicated devices like digital cameras and digital recording devices. If you do your audio recording direct into a computer and that computer crashes you have lost your whole show!

I have found using a serious recording device has caused the audio quality of my podcasts to take a huge jump forward. Would I take a step backwards? No way! I started off recording into a mic attached to my computer, I moved to a mic attached to an iPod and have graduated to a real quality field recorder. This has worked to me and I am no audiophile.

Here is my field kit list of equipment for doing good quality audio podcasting. Some of this I have, some I am saving up to buy:

Shure PG14/PG185 Wireless Lavalier System on instructor
Marantz PMD 660 Recorder, run automatic level control on the recorder
Floor Stand
Wired Floor Mike (optional wireless mike) like a Shure SM58 Dynamic Handheld Microphone
Both audio channels going into the two channels on the recorder or into a mixer
Mix both tracks to mono in post production on the computer using Audacity

Edupodder Podcast: BlogHer 2006

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:38:00 +0000

Edublogging from BlogHer 2006
Edupodder Podcast 26, 37:19 duration, 34 MB MP3 - Posted Aug. 6, 2006
Educators from all levels discus edublogging and Web 2.0 at BlogHer 2006:
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Recorded on July 29, 2006, day two of BlogHer, educators from all levels discus edublogging and Web 2.0 technologies. This podcast includes a break out session that occured that day during a room of your own session entitled EduBlogging. Barbara Ganley from Middlebury College, Laura Blankenship from Bryn Mawr and Barbara Sawhill from Oberlin led this session.

UCSC solution for web archiving rocks!

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:06:00 +0000

Sheryl Martin-Schultz Demo of Web Archiving Tool
I just got back from UC Santa Cruz where I saw a great demo by Sheryl Martin-Schultz, Manager of Instructional Development at U. C. Santa Cruz. She showed about 15 of us a system they have created at UCSC for automating the creation of streaming media and podcast files for faculty members at that university. I think this solution has great potential for application at SJSU. The system makes extensive use of Applescripts and lower end hardware. It really is low on cost and high on elegance. It is totally automated and the professor just has to do what he or she would normally do to present to his or her class. Henry J. Burnett, the UCSC Director of Media Services, led a spirited conversation on how we can move forward with improving the adoption of streaming and podcasting technology in the classroom. Folks from other UC campuses, Stanford, several of the area community colleges and us were in attendance. Plans were put in place to continue the conversation. I was very impressed and hope that does happen.

Edupodder Podcast: Perspective of an Indian Student

s_sloan@mac.com (Steve Sloan) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:41:00 +0000

Perspective of a SJSU student from India

Edupodder Podcast 25
21:17 duration, 19.4 MB MP3
Posted July 18, 2006

Conversation with Kamlesh Kudchadkar:
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Kamlesh and I had a conversation about what it is like to be an Indian student at San Jose State University. Kamlesh Kudchadkar is a Computer Engineering graduate student in the SJSU College of Engineering. He came to SJSU from Bombay. He shares his experiences, opinions and perspectives in this podcast recorded on June 6, 2006 in downtown San Jose.