Podcasting Pah!

I had seen a cool tutorial on putting cutaways and picture-in-picture in iMovie and thought this would be perfect for creating reusable learning objects (RLOs) such as videos and pod/vodcasts. I thought it was pretty cool that an instructor would be able to have video of a lecture or scene and have a video or slideshow running PIP at the same time. This all seemed pretty cool until I found out that you can ONLY do it in iMovie '09, not earlier versions.

Being of the Open Source mindset, I decided to find a free work-around. I found that I could achieve the same thing using presentation software such as Open Office's free Impress software, Apple Keynote, or MS PowerPoint, screen capture software, Audacity - the free audio editing software, and some clever editing in the old, free version of iMovie HD ('06) that I downloaded. It took some doing but here is my first effort:

The VodSquad Episode One: What are blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and vodcasts? (voiced and signed)