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>Subject: Re: #8188 Odeo - Free site for recording audio online
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Hi Joseph,
I was playing around with Odeo a bit this week as well. It looks
well-organized & cleanly designed, though there are the usual issues
with publication control/privacy of student material that will be
evaluated for grades, etc.
If I may recommend something, I've found a new solution for my own
audio/video blogging needs: www.loudblog.de. It's an open-source audio
blog, easy to set up on any server running PHP and MySQL/phpMyAdmin. If
you know any html/css design & a modicum of PHP, you can pretty easily
convert the Loudblog template into a class audio blog - or use it as
is. It also plays video files, so it can be a video blog, too. Or a
podcaster with built-in RSS support.
I like it because the students can see immediate results when they
upload, faculty can create galleries of student work or specify the
various viewing/downloading permissions, and it's all wrapped in a very
hip little package with integrated Flash player or QT player accessible
from any browser. And above all, once it's running, my presence as LRC
manager is no longer demanded for any part of the storage process: I
just give them an introduction to digital media recording and file
formatting, demonstrate the interface, and let 'em loose.
(I've actually put ours on a secure campus-access-only server in the
attempt at reducing the privacy concerns a wee bit. Owning one's own
instance also helps in terms of control over file upload size & the
total server storage space allocated for these sometimes fairly bulky
files.)
I'm just getting started with media blogging for classes, but if anyone
desires, I can report back in a bit on any successes ... or stellar
flops ... implementing a tweaked Loudblog.
Ellen
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>>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:53:52 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: LLTI-List <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Odeo - Free site for recording audio online
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>A colleague of mine just showed me odeo.com Odeo describes itself in
>the following way - "Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio
>and its free. You can record audio
>and then share it with your Odeo contacts, by email, or by placing it in a
>Channel for all the world to hear. Audio from Odeo can be downloaded to
>desktops, iPods, and mp3 players. Were working to make sharing audio via
>the web better and as easy as possible."
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>Some serious student privacy concerns but interesting tool for students.
>
>Joseph
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