Creating an Enhanced Podcast Using a Mac Jen La Certe Chaparral Middle School

Creating an Enhanced Podcast

Using a MacJen La Certe

Chaparral Middle School

Enhanced Podcast

• Uses sound & pictures

• Can be viewed/heard in iTunes or any mp3 player

• Easy for students & teachers to create

• Does not require excessive storage

What You Need

• A Mac

• GarageBand or Audacity

• Pictures (or PowerPoint or Keynote slides)

• A plan

Garage Band & Audacity

• All new Mac’s come with Garage Band

• Audacity is mainly for PCs and can be downloaded for free—it is only for audio

• Keynote is the Mac version of PowerPoint…either one works

GarageBand

• Click on Create New Podcast Episode

Using GarageBand

Text

•You will give your project a name•You should create a new folder to keep all your stuff in

Recording Audio: voice

•Click on a track (male or female voice)•Click on the red record button and speak clearly into the top of the screen•To stop recording click red button and play button

Putting in Pictures

•Click photos on the media browser•Click on the photo you want and drag it to the podcast track

Put the photo in and match it with the

audio

You can add fun stuff using the Jingles track and the many choices below.

Some Tips on PowerPoint or

Keynote:

•PowerPoint: go to File> Page Setup> set the slides to be square•Keynote: click on inspector, select the document icon, go to Slide Size and select Custom, and set to any square size

One More Thing on

PowerPoint or Keynote:

•PowerPoint: to make the slides into pictures just go to File > Save as Pictures•Keynote: to make the slides into pictures go to File > Send to... > iPhoto

Finishing Up Go to the “Share” menu and select “Export Podcast to Disk”

Select “Export” then

choose a place to save

the mp4 (iTunes) file

and click “Save”.

To play the podcast in iTunes: drag the m4a file into the iTunes Library.

Jen La Certejslacerte@yahoo.com