Learning the World » audio http://knewquist.edublogs.org An education tech blog by Ken Newquist Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Audio Recording Tool by the CovCell Project http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/audio-recording-tool-by-the-covcell-project/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/audio-recording-tool-by-the-covcell-project/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:12:15 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=155 Audio recording tools for Moodle are something that’s come up several times on campus. English and foreign languages faculty would love to be able to use such a tool with students; in English they’d use it to work on student’s inflections and readings of poetry, while foreign languages would use it as part of spoken language critques.

I experimented with using NanoGong to do this, but unfortunately it was just too unstable; the Java applet running it refused to save files on two of the three computers I tried it on … including computers on which it had worked.

COVCELLL has created the audio recording assignment that works with Moodle 1.9. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, and would love to hear from anyone who has.


]]> http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/audio-recording-tool-by-the-covcell-project/feed/ 0 Camstudio: Screen Capture Test (Windows) http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/02/26/camstudio-screen-capture-test-windows/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/02/26/camstudio-screen-capture-test-windows/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:30:38 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=174 Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Camstudio, in which I use Google to find Waldo.

This was done on a Windows XP machine running Camstudio 2.0.  The audio was recorded using a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final video uses the Intel Indeo Video 4.5 codec.

The AVI video full-screen, 1.05 minutes long and 7.46 MB in size.

Observations: The video recorded well and plays back fine in Windows Media Player. Embedding it on a webpage using PowerPress (the video below) was more problematic. IE 6 will play the video because it recognizes the AVI file type. Firefox 3 will not.

The video looks good and the sound quality is fine. I don’t think the inability to play AVI files in Firefox is a show stopper, and we can always convert AVIs to some other format later on if we need to.

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