Norwood Debut Shine Waves

Norwood Primary School made their debut broadcast on their Shine Waves Radio Station the other day and it is now available for Podcast, so use the link below to listen to their show. This involved a large class of around 30 participating in the process creating a 6 minute broadcast.

ShineWaves-2008-02-22.mp3

Please feel free to leave constructive comments on here which once moderated can be displayed and used as feedback for the staff and pupils involved. As well as learning from each others broadcasts, tips and advice from everyone listening is welcome. Click the "comments" link below.

You can now subscribe to this on your iPod and all obtain all future broadcasts by selecting the iTunes logo on the left hand side. You need to have an iPod and have iTunes installed for this to work.

Evelyn Broadcasts to the World!

Our first live Podcast of a school broadcast is now online! Evelyn Primary School, who have been creating broadcasts for a while now, kickoff our online service.

This content was presented by Year 6 and is available from the link below:

RadioEvelyn-2008-02-26.mp3

If your school would like to have your Radio Broadcasts Podcasted from our site, then please contact us. Email webmaster@acclaimav.co.uk. If you would like to find out how to set up your own Radio Station in your school, then we can help design, supply and install as well.

Website Infrastructure Updates

This week the site is going live with actual podcasts from at least one school. In the meantime, the site has been opened up to be searchable by Google and listed in the main Blogger Index as well, so a welcome to anyone who just surfed by.

We now have a group on Facebook and we will be looking to add some photos shortly showing one of the stations we setup. Looking to the future, we hope to get some video online as well using a YouTube link up.

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10693143572

In the meantime, don't forget to sign up to our RSS feed [see the instructions supplied by the BBC links] and also look to "Digg" us using the new Digg It link provided and drop by later this week for our first school Podcast.

Testing Recordings of Children

A test of recording children's voices to ensure pickup is of sufficient quality and volume level so that it is workable on the Blog site.

Firstly a traditional nursery rhyme spoken by a Year 2 Child:

http://www.acclaimav.co.uk/station/AmyBaaBaa.mp3

Secondly an altered nursery rhyme showing an example of how forgetting the words actually adds to a recording, whereas editing everything to be perfect can detract from results. Read by a Year 1 child:

http://www.acclaimav.co.uk/station/LauraRustyCar.mp3

Boosted Test File

A short piece explaining how to setup to pickup the latest feeds from a Podcast sight. The aim of this test is primarily to test a "boosted" microphone to compare to the initial lower grade test to see what it sounds like in comparison:

http://www.acclaimav.co.uk/station/podcasting.mp3

We also have a short installer test recording from Norwood School testing the setup in the hall, the recording is not full quality yet, this was an internal test for their school speakers:

http://www.acclaimav.co.uk/station/NorwoodTest.mp3

Initial Test File

To test sounds using a low-quality microphone input, a short recording was made to see what it sounds like. Here is the result...

http://www.acclaimav.co.uk/station/intro.mp3