Geoff’s EFL Blog

So, Melanie’s podcast TBRCP0004 – GO5 class talk about Oxford nightlife is out. It was recorded and uploaded on Friday.
http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/entry/2006-01-27T13_46_13-08_00
She chose to ask her classmates about their experience / opinion of Oxford nightlife. [A little background: It was Melanie's birthday on Thursday, and she went to the Bridge nightclub in Oxford city centre the [...]

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Anne Fox (fellow EVO 2006 ELT podcasting participant) sent a voicemail message to the students at bardwellroad.podomatic.com. It was a response to their choice of cuisine (McDonalds and Chinese, not British) in a previous podcast. She posed it in the form of a puzzle, to try to guess what kind of food she, a Brit [...]

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Following on from discussions in the EVO2006 ELT podcasting course, and from the example and guidance of postings by Graham, Ann, and Ruth, amongst others, I have realised that I have been a bit hasty in pushing my students into producing a series of podcasts, without first getting them up to speed as consumers of [...]

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Just posted the latest espisode of the Bardwell Road Centre Podcast, episode 3.
TBRCP0003 – GO5 class tell how they spent the weekend
http://bardwellroad.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-01-20T06_19_46-08_00
This time, with a guest producer, José, one of the students in my pre-intermediate GO5 class. José is an adult, Spanish, works as a crewman on an oil tanker.
RECORDING
José had planned an episode where [...]

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In case it could help others, below is my podcasting setup. [I should emphasise that I've only done a couple of podcasts so far, so I'm far from an expert!!!]
FOR RECORDING
My laptop has a built-in microphone, but there’s a lot of noise so I really needed an external microphone.

I’m using a Labtec Desktop Mic 534, [...]

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I have submitted a few files to the File upload areas of Yahoo discussion group Podcasting ELT.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasting_elt/
[I hope it's OK for participants to do that, I couldn't see where else to put them.]
1. In the Files area, Week 2, I put a copy of the document I gave to my class, when I introduced the [...]

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