Webcast Academy

First of a bunch of sites associated with this wonderful opportunity to learn Webcasting.

Most resources are publicly available and licensed under a Creative Commons agreement and it is not necessary to register in order to listen to webcasts or participate in the text chat room.

Following  completion of all assignments and review by current session leaders,  interns will receive a digitally signed, watermarked 'Certificate of Webasting Proficiency'. 
This page shows requirements

Some degree of standardization in audio is necessary in order to maintain audio quality, functionality, organization, and  good overall cyber ecology.

See specs here

In order to webcast, you need a stable internet connection that provides at least 100kbs upload bandwidth (which means dial-up connections will not work).  If you plan to have more than one or two people in a skype call, you will probably need a bit more than that.  You can test your bandwidth at AuditMyPC.com or speakeasy.net . 
List and links to all the tools we'll neeed

Wow! Lee Baber's guides to new media. She is awesome.

Well presented lesson

How-to Screencast

Great tool for making some original music for podcasts. Can hijack it.