Publishing a Podcast
Why use podcasts?
- Podcasts enable students to share their knowledge and expertise with others through a creative outlet.
- Podcasts tap into a mode of media input that is commonplace for digital natives.
- Podcasts empower students to form relationships with the content and each other in relevant ways.
- Podcasts engage students in thinking critically about their speaking fluency and communication skills.
- The opportunity to create a podcast about what students would like to discuss and share with others is extremely motivating.
In this workshop you will learn to:
1. Plan a podcast
2. Rehearse
3. Record the audio
4. Edit the audio
5. Export as an mp3
6. Upload to Podomatic
7. Publicize your show
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| Workshop Documents |
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- Hardware Setup
- Installing Audacity
- Installing the Lame Plugin
- Audacity: Setup
- Audacity: Recording and Saving
- Audacity: Playback Tools
- Audacity: Working with Tracks
- Audacity: Basic Editing
- Audacity: More Editing Tools
- Audacity: Effects
- Audacity: ID3 Tags
- Audacity: Export an MP3
- Podomatic: Register
- Podomatic: Set Your Preferences
- Podomatic: Your Podomatic Page
- Podomatic: Update Your Account
- Podomatic: Uploading a Podcast Episode
- Podomatic: Share Your New Episode by Email or Hyperlink
- Podomatic: Share Your Show with an Embedded Player
- Podomatic: Share Your New Episode by Embedding it in an Edublog's Post
- Podomatic: Submit Your Show to the iTunes Directory
- Podomatic: Manage Your Episodes
- Podomatic: Recording Tool
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| Educational Uses |
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| Recording |
Audacity is the free software I recommend for recording audio files and exporting as mp3s.
Hardware
Other Recording Related References Tutorials
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| Publishing |
Currently the service I recommend is Podomatic. I base my recommendation on the free account option, storage limit, embedding tools, on-line recorder, RSS, uploader, and dependability.
Publicize your show by submitting it to the iTunes Store.
Other podcast publishing options
- ClickCaster
- CrowdAbout: a site with free tools for making your podcast interactive - listeners can leave comment linked to specific points in your podcast.
- eSnips
- Evoca
- Hipcast
- Internet Archive
- Odeo: Millions of FREE MP3s, Podcasts, and More
- Our City's website: Teachers who would like to produce a single episode instead of a series are invited to participate in the Our City Podcast. Students from around the globe are invited to produce an episode all about their home towns. So far there are episodes from places like Omaha, NE, Killen, TX, and Philadelphia, PA. Our City's website has example scripts and segment outlines to help students and teachers with their episodes. Once the audio is complete, it's sent to the podcast webmaster who will add it to the Our City website and the RSS feed.
- Our Media: upload and store audio, video, documents, etc. Requires Interent Archive Account
- PodcastPeople
- Switchpod
- Voki: express yourself on the web in your own voice
using a talking character. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.
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| Additional Tools |
- Big Contact: Feed Player: add a media player to your website by providing the feed url and then using provided code.
- Freecorder Toolbar: free, browser based recording tool that can record from your mic or line-in ports.
- Intertoob: publisher interactive podcasts, viewers can leave comments tied to any point of the show. Watch the introduction podcast.
- Jodix: free iPod video converter, convert popular video formats to iPod video format.
- Plotbot: web-based, collaborative sript writing software.
- RSS Validator: a validation service to ensure your RSS feed is in proper working order
A PodGuide is combination of a map (PDF or JPG) of a certain place with numbered dots on it and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod or mp3 player. Each numbered dot corresponds with the track number you should play to hear the audio comment about that specific place on the map.
- AudioSnacks a place to find, purchase and download audio tours that people just like you have created to share, and a place where you can do the same for others
- AudioSteps: digital audio walking guides to fun, popular neighborhoods.
- PodGuides.net: spoken tour guides
- Thinking Machine: Think PodGuides lists the steps for creating a podguide and provides some examples and resources
Text to speech tools
- Digital Journal - Convert PDF + TXT Files To An MP3 Recording
- Feed2Podcast engine instantly turns any RSS feed into a Podcast.
- Mogopop is a free web-based service where members can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text, etc.
- Odiogo Create text-to-speech podcast from RSS feed with Odiogo for iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone
- vocalfruits: a free tool to create a "text to speech" podcast. It allows you to listen to your text contents, via high quality speech solutions.
- VozMe: Type in your text and click the Create mp3 button. An audio file is that you can play and download.
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