Okay, today I used Google Talk for the first time (with Dee Gee's help...thanks Dee Gee!). I downloaded to my computer and discovered that it's a lot like any IM service. Although other users have to have Google accounts (and be in Google Talk) in order for "chat" to happen (and then you have to "Invite" them to use Google Talk with you--just click on the + button to add them). What's nice is that I discovered that Google Talk enables voice chat as well--all you have to do is click the "Call" button when a fellow Google Talk user is online (noted by "Available"), and you need a headset with a microphone plugged in, and then a conversation can begin via the computer. That's pretty cool. Dee Gee tested this out with me and it worked.
I also tried a test podcast in Audacity today. Just a five second one. Then I saved it to my Desktop as a .wma file. The good news is that I was able to upload this .wma file to Desire2Learn and it opened just fine. So Windows audio files open just fine in D2L--this is good to know. However, the bad news is that I can't seem to open the file anywhere else or convert it to .mp3. I know now that it IS possible to post podcasts on this blog (I found a site to describe how to do so), and I found another site (http://www.podbean.com/) that hosts podcasts. I just wasn't able to get an .mp3 file up on a hosting site. I may work on this later.
I just wanted to quickly mention that last Thursday I was able to start creating a Google website on my sabbatical work. It's at https://sites.google.com/site/sabbaticalwork/ if you want to see it. It's still pretty open-ended as of this writing, although I plan to add more to it later.
I discovered another intersesting site today, Yodio (http://www.yodio.com/), that I may talk more about later. It's a site that combines images with words. We'll see.
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