https://audioboo.fm/ - most straightforward, has quite easy signup, upload audacity file or record directly onto site, allows you to comment on student work, need to harvest URLs from students (could do that in a Google Doc or TitanPad)
Vocaroo
http://vocaroo.com/ - incredibly straightforward, but requires a certain port be open
Where YourUserName is the user name you use to log on to your computer
See below the videos created by Vance Stevens and Elizabeth Anne explaining how to brute force your BbC into cooperating with your recalcitrant .collab files
What to do with the .collab file introduced in 2015
When I right click / on the meeting.collab file I have downloaded, I can select Open with ... On my PCs I am OFFERED to open the program with BbC Launcher. So my system knows it's there. It's quite odd that when I double click the meeting.collab file in Windows 8.1 the system tells me I have an incompatible Blackboard Collaborate Launcher file, since I can launch the same .exe file using right click / open with
If your system doesn't know your BbCL is on your computer (doesn't offer it to you) then you have to tell the system where it is by browsing to its location which seems consistently to be
In this location you should find Win32Launcher.exe, and you can choose to use that file to open meeting.collab
Obviously you have to change YourUserName to your user name, the name of your profile on that computer.
Incidentally if you go to your profile on your C: drive then you will see that you have no AppData folder listed. That's because Gates & company have decided that this folder on the computer you bought and took home with you for your personal use should be HIDDEN from you. We managed to sleuth it out, and you can get into that folder by following the secret path above.
You can also browse to your PC, Users folder, browse to your profile, left click to the right of the icons showing the path to get it to revert to something looking like this
C:\Users\YourUserName and then manually right in backward slash \ followed by 'AppData'
so now you have this: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData
press enter, and you can then browse to Local, Programs (careful, not Blackboard at this point), Blackboard under programs,
and finally Blackboard Collaborate Launcher, where you should see your Win32Launcher.exe program file
In my case, it's worked on my Windows 7 and Windows 8 and upgraded to 8.1 computers
Tip #3 Use Firefox or Safari instead of Chrome
Info on Chrome website regarding lack of support for Java
It's incredibly simple to start, record, and stream a Google+ Hangout. You simply start a hangout, get it set up to your liking, and when ready -- start the recording. The moment you've started the hangout you get embed code. This is the same embed code that allows you to play the video once it's been recorded, the kind you are familiar with for embedding YouTube videos on your blogs and web sites.
With Hangout, while you are recording, the embed code streams the recording. So if you embed it in a website you can invite people to that URL and they will be able to see and hear the event as it is happening. If you then provide some way for them to interact with you in txt chat (we use the etherpad clones) then you have a means of:
accommodating up to ten in the hangout for live interaction
accommodating any number of people in the stream with ability to interact with them in synch with the webcast
finding out who would like to join the hangout and rotate people out who have become non-talking heads so you can bring conversant heads in
http://Odiogo.com is pretty nifty. You install it on your blog and it reads your blog to whomever clicks on the audio player. It turns your blog into a podcast. It's free, and all Odiogo needs is your blog URL, an email address, and your assurance that you are the owner of that blog; see: http://screencast.com/t/NmJkNTQ4ND
Odiogo will create mp3 files of all your blog postings and create a page for you on its servers which gives the feeds for your blog. For example, for http://justcurious.posterous.com/, the Odiogo URLs are:
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