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]>
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Subject: Odeo - Free site for recording audio online
    


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."

Some serious student privacy concerns but interesting tool for students.

Joseph

  
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