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Check out the new Destry record!

"It Goes On" CD | Digital
http://myspace.com/destrymusic

The joy of recording!

This simple device is becoming a "staple" in my lessons. I plug it to my computer, open Audacity (a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds) and I start recording my students. they usually have a conversation with a partner or they do a little presentation about themselves. They love it because for some reason they love listening to their own voice. So the magic happens: once they have recorded themselves, they listen to their performance and most of the time they want to do it again
because they have spotted a pronunciation mistake or a grammatical error! I mean, how often do you hear students wanting to repeat themselves when they speak in another language??? The recording exercise allows this magical phenomenon to happen! And even better, students love it when they know their recordings will be embedded on the school blog and therefore available for the world to listen to.

This week I have decided to try to use it as often as I can in an attempt to make my students visit the blog and leave comments. I have noticed they do visit the blog but they have not yet stepped into the commenting phase. Do you have any suggestions to make students comment on a blog?

If you haven't tried this yet, please do. You can find microphones at a very affordable price and they are so easy to use with Audacity. You can then save your recordings as .wav or.mp3 files and easily embed them onto your blog or website. You will see your students being motivated to SPEAK ;)

What about you? what do you do to make your students speak in another language?

Demo nr. 3 (intro)

Short intro or verse from a song idea I'm working on.

Post Shoot Chilldown Metaphor Salad [2]

Paht 2

(download)

sent from my iPhone

Post Shoot Chilldown Metaphor Salad [1]

Paht 1

(download)

sent from my iPhone

One man's trauma is another man's treasure

(download)

I hope I'm not setting some cosmic karmic catastrophe in motion, but I have to share this. For months there have been a bunch of saved messages that must have been in the voicemail box of the previous owner of my work extension. I had a few minutes today and thought I would clear my mailbox of messages. I ran across this one. Not mine, but it is now.

ScreenFlow 2.0 released

My Foot Fetish MP3 Intro :)

I have a foot boy who has a recording studio so I'm going to be recording high quality MP3s for you to download! I'll talk about real time foot fetish sessions, point of view stories as if you were with me in person and I'm going to try some foot hypnosis to control your mind! hehe So check back soon and I'll have my first one up and ready to go shortly. Email me if you have any ideas for some: kcknowsbest@gmail.com

Click here to listen to the recording:

bambuser - video broadcasting from your mobile, desktop and webcam

Just got a newsletter from bambuser (http://bambuser.com/) today and checked the service again.
It seems to have developed to a nice little qik (http://qik.com/) alternative within the last months.
I signed up in April 2008 but didn't really use it. I think there was no support for my mobile back then. Anyway... now there is an iPhone app that you can install via Cydia, that means you have to have a jailbreak.

My testing went pretty well (webcam & iPhone), i didn't test the destktop uploader so far.

The only thing i was missing was a way to share the broadcasting link to twitter or via email, while i am broadcasting from the iPhone.

check http://bambuser.com/

Pomplamoose does Beyonce