Practical Podcasting

Senyda M. ElizondoPharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD

Technology Trainer

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What is a podcast? The word podcast comes from cast as in

broadcast and pod from the famous Apple iPod or think information that is

Personal On Demand. (People automatically began to associate

podcasting with the iPod).

RSS Feed Podcasting is the syndication of audio files

using RSS. The only feed it subscribes to is audio

similar to a feed reader or news aggregator.

Today many websites have a RSS feed on their pages to notify others of daily or hourly updates.

Ex. www.podomatic.com

CNN Podcasting site http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/

Why podcast? Podcasts give you the opportunity to host

your own news, speak your mind, or broadcast your music to whoever wants to receive it.

Podcasts specifically with students give them the opportunity to listen to themselves, talk about what's important to them and speak in a language they understand or want to understand.

Misconceptions You do not have to have an iPod to listen

to a podcast. You can listen to podcasts or subscribe to

podcasts on your computer. These podcasts can be automatically sent to your podcatching site or application such as iTunes. Or you can listen to podcasts on anything that plays MP3s. A podcast is an mp3.

Podcasts can be used for: Music Training/Instruction Story Telling News/Information dissemination Self-guided walking tours How-to information Interviews Opinion pieces Book walk

Materials Needed A computer A microphone, digital recorder with USB Audio editing software, such as Audacity Something to talk about or a pre-written

script Optional music Podcast hosting site or ftp site with server

space

Using Audacity Audacity is freeware that allows you to

record and or edit audio. Then you can export the audio into mp3 suitable for podcasting.

Audacity requires a lame mp3 encoder download in order to export to mp3. The lame encoder is free.

Audacity is free and can be downloaded from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Or http://psjatechtrainer.pbworks.com

Audacity Download Page

Downloading the lame encoder Lame encoder-

libmp3lame-win-3.98.2.zip http://lame.sourceforge.net/ Place it somewhere easily accessible! This file is need to download file to mp3,

audacity does not have it so it is a plug-in to audacity.

Follow directions when finalizing your project and exporting it as a mp3 it will pop-up.

Lame MP3 encoder

Audacity

Audacity Controls

Audacity Beginning

Adding Music www.freeplaymusic.com free background

music for your podcasts, digital story telling etc…

Select the mp3 file>Save

Project>Import Audio

Music File

Music file

File>Export as MP3

Click ok

Select a File name>Save

Locating the Lame MP3 encoder

Select Yes

Locating the Lame MP3 encoder

Add tags for identification/export is automatic

Windows Sound Recorder Or use the Windows Sound Recorder

located under Programs>Accessories>Entertainment and drop it into Audacity.

However, this will not allow you to edit. Wav file

Importing Audio

Imported File

Audio Levels

Too low LOUD Speaking Tone

Editing Podcasting Example.aup

Podcast hosting/PodcatchersPodbean.com http://www.podbean.com http://senyda.podbean.com Podbean not only allows you to publish

your podcasts but also subscribe to podcasts of interest to you.

Podbean has embeddable players that can be placed on blogs and web pages to make it easier to access them.

Podbean.com

Free Account 5GB Monthly

Bandwidth 100MB Storage Pictures, videos,

podcasts Blog style Templates Embeddable players

post to wikis, blogs, websites, and social networking sites

Podbean.comYou can also configure Podbean to send your

podcasts to iTunes where listeners can subscribe and download them as they become available.

http://senyda.podbean.com

Pod-omatichttp://selizondo.podomatic.com/

Podcasts Going on http://www.teacherspodcast.org http://www.podguides.net Science at NASA Podcast NPR Podcasts http://secondgrade.podomatic.com/ http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/

index.html http://www.justonemorebook.com/

Podcast Evaluationhttp://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

In the classroom/lessons http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

teachers/lessons/20060126thursday.html http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/

lesson_view.asp?id=901

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Credits The L&S LSS Quick Guide to Audacity

by Doug Worsham www.podcast411.com