After the neat things we learned about at our last mili, I was excited to begin the process of using gcast as part of my curriculum. That is until the email I received last week. Unfortunately, they are ceasing to be a free service due to covering the costs of calls to use the service. You may continue to use gcast's phone podcasting for a fee of $99, and will be limited to 2 hours of recording every 90 days beginning April 1.
I was planning to use this with my students during 4th quarter utilizing their cell phones as part of class. Does anyone know of any other free podcasting options where students can call in their recordings?
Thanks!
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Here's the email I sent to the people who emailed me about this:
"Wow, what horrid timing. A sign of the times? Oddly, I didn't get the email from Gcast, so I'm emailing you three first since you brought it to my attention. I really apologize that this happened, especially since I know you are/will be using it.
I thought that http://gabcast.com/ was a free phone-in alternative, but it turns out that the "free" part is limited ... I didn't really explore it because of the sexy pictures on the main page. The only free phone one I've found is http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/ which almost looks TOO easy (See what Daily Splice said about it.)
A free record-from-you-browser option: http://podomatic.com/. Here are instructions for using it: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddx6grtc_674gnwxcpgt
Podomatic is very easy to use ...
Remember, too, that you have Garage Band and/or Audacity available through your districts, and there are tutorials for them on Atomic Learning (MPS database, I'm not sure about Chaska)."
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