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Today the EdTech Posse gave our very first presentation together - EdTech Posse: Podcasting in Real Time. Dean has already put a short description and some photos up over on Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech. I have to agree with Dean that it was a pleasure to present with the rest of the posse. We have been connecting up via Skype and recording our conversations to impose on an unsuspecting world for almost a year and, as Dean has noted, its been the best PD experience I could hope for. Today, however, was the first time that all four of us were in the same room at the same time.



The premise for presentation was pretty simple - record a podcast for about 20 minutes, edit it, load it up to a server and put the entry on our blog all within the hour we had. The editing was made a little bit easier thanks to the beta version of Audacity 1.3, which includes a batch processing filter for cleaning up speech. I didn’t do any editing other than adding the podcast leadin and pressing the batch process button. The final audio mix was fairly decent - you can head over the the EdTech Posse site to judge for yourself. We might have a podcast of the full discussion from our presentation posted sometime soon. We did set up a Podcasting in real time wiki on wikispaces, initially to help in planning our presentation but I’ve started adding some podcasting resources. If you’d like to see or suggest any resources on podcasting, you can go ahead and add to the wiki or leave a comment here.

The rest of the conference has been going well, except that the wireless seems to keep denying me; I checked out the wireless on the U of S campus yesterday, and it worked flawlessly, but today it was showing me no love. Consequently, I have not had the chance to blog the conference live, although I hope to get some things written here before they completely escape my brain.

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