Audacity

It was interesting to look at Audacity because I don't have the program at home and had never used it. There are so many programs for just about anything out there and I think it's good to keep up with new software developments especially if they make your job easier and quicker. I'm not sure if I'll use Audacity to edit my podcast though because I can only use it at uni. I have Garageband at home so it would be better to use but I really am not sure at how to edit my recording. I think I need to do a mock recording soon and try editing it in Garageband. I'm a bit worried now because I won't be here next week and that will be the last teaching lesson for this subject really. Argh!

Well, on the positive side, I have definitely decided on Windows Live Messenger as my presentation topic and have started to survey people about it. I am also getting emails from msn and some of them are about Windows Live Messenger so I am using them as a start with my research. I will put some screenshots up here soon.

last week's class

Last week in class I was very intrigued to see what you could do in Garageband. I had played with it before but I didn't really know how to use the synthesised instruments and had no idea that you could compose a song from a few notes played by a "dance kit"! I really want to try this when I get a chance because you could do some really cool stuff with that. I'm really into music, writing and composing, although I haven't done that for a while. But it would be a good avenue for me to test some of my work out.

So I still need to decide on a topic for my presentation. At the moment I think I'm going to talk about MSN messenger, but in particular Windows Live Messenger. I figure that I use it a lot but I haven't used the Live version for that long and I certainly don't know everything about it. I might conduct a survey asking people why they use it, when they use it, what advantages they think it has..and any other questions I can think of.

I hope that I can understand the technical side of this subject and can successfully make a podcast! I guess only time will tell..

First post

Today was our first class for MPI208. The subject sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to learning how to make podcasts. I had fun playing in photo booth as well.