Thing #21 - Podcasts and Videocasts

I played with Photostory and came up with a video on some photos I took up in the Texas Hill Country. This is a cool software program that is easy to use and fun to play with. There is a quirk with the voice recording section where you have to press NO on every picture to get it to work. You will probably have to go into your control panel, select audio devices, and make sure that your internal microphone is turned on. If you said YES when prompted by Photostory, it turns the microphone off. We need to check if there is an updated version to this software that has worked out this bug.

Audacity is another great cool to use if you want to provide strictly audio files. It can be used as a stand alone or it can be embedded into software applications which do not allow you to record, such as PowerPoint. I've been trying to post the sound file, but am also getting errors from blogger.com. I'll keep working on it.

Common Craft's web site has those nifty videos we've been watching that explain what some of the various 23 things are. It has many things which you can view for free while on their website, but if you want to use it, you have to buy it. I prefer the free things myself with the tight budget constraints that we have in education.