The Free Moodle Podcast - have a listen and get involved !

The Free Moodle Podcast - have a listen and get involved !

από Stuart Mealor -
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Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

We're pleased to announce that the December 2013 Episode of The Free Moodle Podcast is now available.

This podcast has been running 6 months now, and features regular News, Reviews, Interviews, Moot updates, and other features surrounding "all things Moodle".  Recently The Free Moodle Podcast has been at number 6 in the Educational Technology category on iTunes (alongside TED Talks and BBC content!)

You can view and subscribe to The Free Moodle Podcast on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588?mt=2

If you enjoy the podcast please help raise the awareness by Rating it, and leaving a review on iTunes.

We really want to get more people in the Moodle user community actively involved with the podcast, so you can also visit http://www.freemoodle.org/course/view.php?id=549 our area with discussion Forums.  Here you can now leave questions, tips and tricks (which we can discuss on the show), and discuss other aspects of the podcast.

If you are doing something interesting with Moodle, have a specialism of some type, or have just done some "cool things" with Moodle either on your own, with your school or University or organisation, we REALLY want to hear from you, and maybe invite you onto the podcast as a special feature guest.

To be a guest on the podcast you don't need anything more complicated than a computer, microphone, headphones, Skype, and a reasonable internet connection.

You can contact the podcast team either in the Forums, or via email: podcast@hrdnz.com

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Re: The Free Moodle Podcast - January 2014

από Stuart Mealor -
Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

We've just released the latest episode of The Free Moodle Podcast on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588

This month features:

  • Presenters discussing Messaging in Moodle
  • A review of a free course on Nutrition
  • A chat with Gavin Henrick about LTI in Moodle
  • An interview with Laureano Diaz, Director of a Moodle Partner in Colombia
  • News about Moodle Moot conferences running during 2014

We would love to have your feedback (just take a look at the podcast area here) and we are actively searching for people using Moodle to invite onto the podcast as guests - so drop us a line !

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Re: The Free Moodle Podcast - January 2014

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Hi Stuart,

Thanks for sharing and for putting all this time and effort into this project. It's greatly appreciated.

I found the list of podcasts here: http://www.freemoodle.org/mod/pcast/view.php?id=14193&mode=2 and they all seem to be in M4A format only, which isn't compatible with all operating systems and devices. Would it be possible to also offer the podcast in MP3 format so that it's easily accessible to everyone?

BTW, I tried simply changing the file extension from .m4a to .mp3 but that seems to be problematic with some media players and browsers (I think it's encoded using the AAC CODEC). The only reason to use the M4A container is if the audio is encoded using AAC or Apple's ALAC CODEC's. The bitrate of the podcasts on your site is 128 Kbps which will sound better in MP3 than in M4A (AAC). AAC only has the advantage over MP3 at very low bitrates, i.e. under 48 Kbps.

In the words of this sound engineer, who did a detailed analysis, "The big standout to me is how much he waveform has been altered on the iTunes M4A version. And how bad it sounds." Source: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/blogs/mitchco/flac-vs-wav-vs-mp3-vs-m4a-experiment-94/

It'd be nice to have a widely supported alternative format like MP3.

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Re: The Free Moodle Podcast - January 2014

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Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

Hi Matt

For the first year we figured we would concentrate on mastering the technology and process to just produce a solid quality podcast. We're having to review the 'Enhanced podcast' format, as it looks like Apple are dropping support for this.  We use Skype to record the interview, Audacity to edit and do some post-production, and GarageBand to construct the (enhanced) podcast.  We've just got Jane and Teresa some studio quality microphones and headphones too.

We're also using the Pcast Moodle plugin to publish the podcast.
This has been challenging at times, but we wanted to do this, so we can pass on this knowledge to other teachers at some point.
Stephen Bourget, developer of this plugin, has been sooooo helpful, and we've managed to highlight / test / improve a few things in the module χαμόγελο

At this stage we just need the podcast "to work", try and be efficient in our production, and make sure it goes through iTunes OK, because that saves us money on promoting - hopefully most people who enjoy podcasts can access using iTunes, even if it's not their preferred method or format. 

I'm all for open standards (of course I am!) so if we move away from the enhanced format then we can probably go to mp3 format instead, if iTunes will handle that for us χαμόγελο

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Free Moodle Podcast - January 2015

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The January 2015 episode of The Free Moodle Podcast is now available !

Note that we are no longer creating these as enhanced podcasts (AAC) as Apple appear to be phasing this out, so we are now producing these in standard MP3 format χαμόγελο

This month is part one of our in-depth Moodle 2.8 review - looking at the Gradebook and activities that are graded.

You can access the podcast on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588?mt=2

If you don't use iTunes, you can access on our SoundCloud page:

https://soundcloud.com/stuart-r-mealor/sets/the-free-moodle-podcast

PLEASE help us by leaving a review and/or rating on these platforms χαμόγελο

We are also looking for guest interviews for the year, so please get in touch if you are interested in coming on the show !

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Re: The Free Moodle Podcast - have a listen and get involved !

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Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

The February 2014 episode of The Free Moodle Podcast is now available !

You can view and subscribe in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588?mt=2

This month features:

  • The podcast team of Stuart, Teresa, and Jane discussing using Resources in Moodle.
  • An interview with Laureano Diaz, CEO of Moodle Partner in Colombia.
  • A review of a free course for Community Helpers.
  • Updates for this year's Moodle Moot conferences.

Please give us a Rating and leave a Review in iTunes !

If you have ideas or suggestions for features and interviews, please visit The Free Moodle Podcast area: http://www.freemoodle.org/course/view.php?id=549 and get involved in the Forum χαμόγελο

Next month features an extensive interview with Jason Cole, "Using Moodle" author and CEO of Remote-Learner !

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March episode of The Free Moodle Podcast

από Stuart Mealor -
Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

We've just released the March episode of The Free Moodle Podcast, and it is available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588?mt=2

This month is the first of our "special features" for 2014, and has an in-depth exclusive interview with Jason Cole - author of the famous "Using Moodle" book, and now CEO of Remote-Learner.

We would love you to rate the podcast and leave a review on iTunes !

You can also get the podcast from our Moodle site: http://www.freemoodle.org/course/view.php?id=549  This area has forums where you can interact with the presenters, and provide direction and ideas for the show χαμόγελο

 

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Re: March episode of The Free Moodle Podcast

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Φωτογραφία Particularly helpful Moodlers

We've just published the August episode of The Free Moodle Podcast on iTunes.

This month is a Moodle Moot special - with comments and interviews with attendees at conferences in Australia and the USA.  If you've never been to a Moodle Moot before it might be worth listening to get an idea of what people say when they attend ?

If you missed the June and July episodes they were a special review of Moodle 2.7 and how it affects Teachers, and Administrators.

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-free-moodle-podcast/id666537588?mt=2

Next month we have an in-depth interview with the creator of PoodLL !
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