My Educational Diatribe

So I made an attempt last semester to record my lectures and post the audio file as a podcast on the iTunes music store. Well, i was using a cumbersome wireless microphone setup and a laptop, and it turned out to be too much hassle with the screencasting I was also doing.

This semester, with first drafts of my screencasts in the bag, I can focus on podcasting lectures again. Well, I stil had the technical issues. As I started running again, I began listening to a ‘running’ podcast called Phedippidations. It is an very entertaining podcast and the author records portions of it while he is running. Well, the audio was pretty good quality so i sent him an email asking what he used. Less than a week later, i had the same setup he did, using a 800 series iRiver.

So I recorded my first lecture today using the build in micropphone and still got an ok signal. I am getting a more fancy microphone sometime soon (read: in the next few days) and I decided to start using the other domain I own, which is www.chemlecture.com. I am still not sure what i will put there, and I should probably spend some time making it look more professional, but…