Wimba Voice Tools 5.2 - Support Module

Table of Contents

1. Wimba Voice Tools Support Module
   1. The Wimba Voice Tools Manager
   2. About the Voice Tools
   3. Voice Recorder
   4. Voice Email
   5. Voice Board
   6. Voice Presentation
   7. Voice Direct
   8. Wimba Podcaster
   9. Saving, Importing and Exporting Audio Files
2. Oral Assessment Builder (OAB) Training
3. Voice Tools & WebCT PowerLinks Training
4. Voice Tools & WebCT Vista 4 / CE 6 PowerLinks Training
5. Voice Tools & Blackboard BuildingBlocks Training
6. Voice Tools & Moodle Integration Training
7. Wimba Voice Tools Documentation and Resources
8. Wimba Voice Tools Support Network
9. Voice Tools Samples (demonstration links)

Wimba Podcaster

Wimba Podcaster is a tool that allows you and your students to create vocal recordings or upload digital recordings and distribute them over the Internet using syndication feeds. Essentially, it allows you to easily create and subscribe to podcasts.

Wimba Podcaster has the following features:

• Create podcasts within simple interface
• Record to server or upload audio files to desktop
• One-click podcast subscribe from CMS
• Supports iTunes and RSS feed formats
• Students can post audio content for group podcasts
• Exchange podcast content with Wimba Voice Board
• Show websites with audio via Voice Presentation
• Supports MP3, PCM/WAV, Ogg Speex, GSM/WAV
• No other software required

To create a Podcaster:

1. Log in to the Manager
2. Click 'Podcaster'
3. Click the 'New' button in the center of the screen
4. Enter a name for your Podcaster. For example, you might want to call it "Class Podcaster" or "Podcasts for Language Practice".
5. Click the 'Create' button

What happens when I subscribe to a Podcaster?

Each time a new Podcast message is released, the Podcast audio will be downloaded automatically to your computer. You can then listen to the Podcast at any time you wish. The audio will be also copied to your iPod or other mobile .mp3 player, if you had set your player preferences to do so.

Subscribing to Podcaster

You and/or users may subscribe to your series of Podcasts created within the Podcaster in one of 3 ways:

• Click the '1-click' button, at the top right of the Podcaster, and select your Podcaster application (iTunes, Juice, Yahoo Music Engine, etc) to open the .pcast file.
• Drag the 'RSS feed' button, at the top right of the Podcaster, into your Podcast application.
• Click the 'RSS feed' button. A new window will appear. Copy and paste the URL from this window into your Podcast application.

Once you are subscribed, your Podcasting application will automatically download new Podcasts created within the Podcaster

Podcast auto-published after...

By default, posts will be published (and therefore downloaded to the computers of subscribed users) after 5 minutes of creation. Only during this time may the author edit the text within the post and/or re-record the audio. You may adjust this setting to a shorter or longer duration.

Note: Make sure to keep in mind that users who have downloaded an entry of the podcast will not see any modification you might perform on a Podcast.

Demonstrations:

• Demonstration of Wimba Podcaster
• Teaching and Learning using audio