Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Podcast/Slidecast

I just finished with my podcast presentation on SlideShare. It can be found below and here at SlideShare.
Fandom: A Look at Fan Participation in the Current Media 2
View more presentations from reiste01.

The flowchart and FATP for this project can be found in this blog post.

My script is available in this blog post.

A little reflection on this project now.
I loved doing this project, especially playing off of the SlideShow already created in the previous assignment. I used my comprehensive information because I was already familiar with the material and had some interesting graphs and visual information to help present my data to the viewers.

I started out searching Creative Commons online for relevant music and photos that would match up to my presentation and enhance the slideshow for the viewer, instead of having it cut and dry information and nothing more. I found two songs and worked to edit them using Audacity. I had a lot of trouble at first, but once I learned the icons in Audacity and how to move around the audio clips, I could work a little more with these audio clips and fade in/fade out, move them around and add the audio that I recorded into Audacity to mesh all of this together and link it to my slideshow on SlideShare.

After finally figuring out the Audacity audio and meshing the tracks together I spent some time decking out a battle with my computer on how to convert an Audacity file to an mp3 so it could be uploaded to SlideShare. I needed to download a Lame encoder, but I could not do this without a file that reads .ddl files and I could get this file without an unzipping file (WinZip) on my computer. I finally found a way around this drama with a simple freeware called Switch Sound File Converter (a Microsoft program) and converted the Audacity file into an mp3.

Then, I couldn't find where to upload onto SlideShare so I uploaded my mp3 to the internet archives and then transfered the file to SlideShare. From here, syncing the audio with the visual slideshow was fairly easy, I just had to go through a lot of trial and error to make the slideshow and experimenting with the different programs helped me learn some new skills.

I think I still have a lot to learn about Audacity and want to play around with it some more for future projects- there is definitely more to use than just fade in/out and I want to experiment some more to see what I can do with this program.

Now I have my finished project that looks a lot like my beginning FATP and flowchart and presents my comp in a new and exciting way for many to see on the web! Creative Commons was fun to work with and I could not have put together this presentation without the help of artists for photos and fun music to match my theme of Fandom.
The script I developed when recording the audio track for my presentation helped a lot but next time I really want to play around with Audacity in changing my voice so it sounds a lot better.

Overall, it was a fun, but difficult, project and I learned a lot of new things about Audacity, SlideShare and different freeware projects that I will use in the future.

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