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screencasting tools

mac: (personal favorites in this order)

• screenflow http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm ($99)
• iShowU HD pro http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html ($60)
• iShowU HD http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html ($30) 
• screenium http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html (29€) 
• SnapzProX http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ ($69)
• jing http://www.jingproject.com/ (free) 
• jing pro http://www.jingproject.com/pro/ ($15) 
• Screenflick http://www.araelium.com/screenflick ($25) (untested) 

online:

• http://www.screentoaster.com/ (untested)
• http://www.screenjelly.com/ (untested)
• http://screenr.com/ (untested)

windows:

• http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ (free) 
• http://www.jingproject.com/ (free) 
• http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp ($299)

add others in the comments if you like.

 

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roland sh-201 demo

(download)

the outcome of some procrastinations. a quick demo once finally
learning how to use the recording function on the synth.

Menn Ársins rehearsing and composing in Arnarholt in 2006 (@mennarsins)

 

 

 

 

demo nr. 4

Rough demo I put togeather today.

Drum loops, acoustic guitar + electric bass.

The original drums were in 120 bpm but I slowed them down to 100 bpm... so that explains the strange sound :-p

Is the sound to dark/warm ? ... I'm totally getting tired by now :)

Busy Weekend

It's been a busy weekend for Flaming Mango. We put on a short notice show on campus that had a good turn out on Friday night and spent a few hours on Sunday recording our material! Big thanks to Scott, Allen and Luke for being so awesome and helping us record. The 16-track studio on Evergreen is really neat (we took up 10 tracks and recorded everything live) and even the sound of the songs unmixed is great, so I can't wait to hear the finalized version. I'll post up more info about the Demo/Album/EP thing as more is available.

Not Really a Shed

Not much practicing last night. Spent many hours working out bugs with laptop recording. Almost there, but still have some things to work out.

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?