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If you are an employee of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, you have another way to store audio files.  Netcaster is kind of like YouTube for the OCDSB.  Keep in mind you will need to contact your Computer Contact Teacher, or, if that person is you, Hotline for your school’s password.

Start on page 3 for instructions on uploading your audio to Netcaster.  While the document is geared toward video files, it is the exact same process for audio.

Posting to Netcaster

Thanks to Tim Hawes for creating this.  Find more discussion about technology and education at www.commun-it.org.

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Our board is developing a place called NetCaster for teachers to upload and share different types of media. Due space restrictions, video must be uploaded in the FLV format.

It now looks like video conversion won’t be an issue.  Tim Hawes from B< has improved things at NetCaster:

Netcaster can now automatically convert uploaded .avi, .wmv, and .mov files into .flv for you. Still experimental, but works in most cases. Still limited to 15mb files.

There is also an upload progress bar now too.

./tim

Still need to convert files?

I think most of us would be converting from WMV (files made from from software like Windows Movie Maker) or AVI. The following sites have free software to download to accomplish this task and appears to work well. See what you think:

Any Video Converter You will then need to scroll down to find “Download Any Video Converter Free Version”.

Another solution is to visit Zamzar.net. This might be a better solution if you’re working on a board computer. You just upload your video to their site, provide an email address and, usually, in a couple of minutes you receive a link where you can download your converted file.