Screen shot of Radio2 Get Connected website.
Radio2 Get Connected.
In their own words:
Radio 2’s Get Connected campaign launches on Monday 1 March. The aim of the campaign is to help more of our listeners get online and understand digital technology better. The campaign will run across the network for the entire month, with many shows involved including Weekend Wogan, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, The Jeremy Vine Show, Steve Wright in the Afternoon, Simon Mayo’s Drivetime, Ken Bruce, Alex Lester, and Aled Jones’ Good Morning Sunday.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/get-connected/ .
Agewell in Hackney logo.
Agewell Computer Club, 8 March, 2.30 - 5 pm.
This is huge, so we are not going to attempt to cover all of it. However, here are some of the topics we are ready for …
- Downloading and installing a media or audio player on your own computer at home. We like iTunes for organising music files, and VLC as a general-purpose media player (it’s the default at the Agewell Computer Club).
- Understanding MP3 files (most digital music files are MP3 format).
- Where to find music to download.
- Legal and copyright issues.
Cartoon frog plays guitar.
Please bring your own questions to the workshop.
ACC members can reserve places on these workshops by sending an email to acc@lawns.org.uk (if you don’t trust your own email skills, please ask for help).
Note added 2 March: this workshop seems to be almost fully booked — perhaps one or two places available.
If you want to get started now, try the About.com Digital Music pages.
Other Agewell workshops.
There is more information about future workshops on our Agewell Computer Club workshops page.
See our main Agewell Computer Club page for more information about our Monday afternoon activities.
Shoutcast Radio logo.
Several people have asked how to find and play the Internet Radio stations we played at our end-of-year party (15 Dec 2009).
They are all ‘Shoutcast’ stations. Shoutcast is a very wonderful Internet project that helps to restore flagging faith in humanity — free software enabling almost anyone to set up an Internet Radio station without expensive equipment. There is more info on the Wikipedia Shoutcast page.
The stations we played were …
The easiest way to play Shoutcast stations is to use a web browser to open http://www.shoutcast.com/ (search for ‘Soukous’ to find the first two stations, or on ‘WBR’ to find the third).
A better way is to download and install ‘Winamp’ (a media player designed for Shoutcast) from http://www.winamp.com/. Winamp is very ugly to look at, but works well.
Before you try to install Winamp on your own computer, please read the notes on our Internet Radio page .
Silver Comedy logo.
A free course for older people.
Be involved in writing and performing comedy sketches for an internet radio show to be recorded at City Hall on the South Bank. A special course presented by the Capital Age Festival and Silver Comedy for anyone aged 50+.
The course is made up of 8 daytime afternoon sessions where you will learn everything you need to know about writing and performing comedy sketches for the radio, and how to put a show together.
There will then be a live recording session at City Hall as part of a special Capital Age Festival event, followed by a final follow-up session with an introduction to editing. The finished work will be put on the internet as a short series of podcasts and CDs or MP3s will be produced for everyone involved.
Workshops will be held every Monday afternoon (1 - 4 pm) at Oval House Theatre (tube: Oval, Northern Line) from January 11th 2010.
For more information or to enrol, call Capital Age Festival on 01895 675 389 or email chris.head@yahoo.co.uk .
Screen shot of winamp.com.
This is a note for everybody who attended the last Internet Radio workshop, or would like to listen to more Internet radio stations on their computer at home.
Winamp is very good for finding and playing Internet radio from all over the world. It’s a free download from the WWW. We have placed some notes on how to download and install Winamp on this resource page: resources/internet-radio.
It’s for people at home. You can’t do it at The Lawns!
