Catching Up....Almost

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Well Mother Nature threw another curve ball at us this past week, or should I say two curve balls?!  Even though the snow storm on Tuesday didn't dump much snow in our area, it certainly had an enormous impact as it caused our MCAS schedule to be altered.  The domino effect of those changes as continued in to this new week.  The second curve ball came on Friday morning when we had a 2 hour delay of school; causing even more of my students to miss tech class last week.  I will not be seeing some of my students this week at all!   YIKES!!!  We will continue on and see where we end up on April 1 (no fooling)!!  So those students who do have class this week will finish up with their podcasts.
Once podcasts have been finished we will be creating accounts in Podbean.  This is where your podcasts will be hosted. Please watch this screencast Ms. Sweeney created showing you not only how to create this account, but also how to upload your first podcast.  Now that you know how to create your account please go to Podbean and do so. I would like you to make some adjustments to your accounts.  Please go in to "My Profile" in your Podbean account and change your password.  I would then recommend adding this user information to your School Sites Tables, or at least write it down on your podcast rubric for now.  I would then like you to go to the "profile and settings" tab.  Once there, select "privacy".  I would like you to change the "friends" option. It can be either or the other two options.  In addition, please change the setting for who can see your profile from the default to one of the other two options.  Be sure to save the changes to your account.
You will not be able to upload your Audacity .wav files directly in to Podbean.  You will need to import the .wav file in to Adobe Soundbooth; and then save it as an MP3 file.  Once you have done this you will be able to bring it in to Podbean.  You will then be able to follow those steps Ms. Sweeney gave you to upload your podcast!  You should have already created a post on your Google docs.  Simply copy and paste that text in to your Podbean account and you are good to go! You do have a limit of 500 characters for your post (about 3 tweets worth) so choose your words carefully. Once you hit that upload tab you have officially started your career as a published podcaster!!

Enjoy your long weekend.  You deserve it after all of your hard work on MCAS!!

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Happy Passover

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