Gabcast! Mobile Musings #5
For Gabcast users
Here are some numbers you can use to dial in to Gabcast, in addition to the 800# (which is listed here as well: 1.800.749.0632 – (USA only) 1.641.696.0518 – (Iowa, USA) 1.647.723.3682 – (East Canada, Toronto) 1.403.775.9947 – (West Canada,
Links to podcasts
Here are links to some of the podcasts I shared in my session today: Colonial Williamsburg Engadget Room 208 LD Podcast Hopkinton High School Book Talks Thanks to the producers of all of these great resources. Your work is much
Gabcast
For those of you who witnessed my first-ever problem with Gabcast in the session today (and the rest of you as well, I guess :), here’s the word from Gabcast’s team: “It does appear that we have a service interruption
Digital audio recorder for the field
Several of you have asked me about a good quality, digital field recorder for audio. I’d recommend the Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. It is very mobile, and you can attached a wireless mic to it if you like.
Text-to-speech blog-to-podcast tool
I just saw the Talkr tool on Will Richardson’s great blog. It takes the text from a blog and converts it to an audio file via text-to-speech. I can see all kinds of applications for this in education to help
Audio blogging sites
As reported earlier, Audioblogger is discontinuing its wonderful service, and so we’ve been evaluating other similar services to see if there is a good replacement out there. So far, the winner is GabCast. Gabcast has a few features that I
Podcasts to your cell phone
Here’s an interesting article in Wired about getting podcasts right on a cell phone. There aren’t a lot of phones that are set up for this now (and they are expensive), but this is something that I think will get
NASA Podcast Contest
NASA is sponsoring the 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition for kids aged 11-18. The deadline for entries is oct. 10, so get them in soon!
Portable Media Expo – Installment 3 (final one)
This is my last post about the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. A great little trick that was shared at a session called “Podcasting the Written Word” was the “clicker trick.” We all make flubs when we’re recording audio. Generally,