ITEC 830 Podcasting Workshop

 

Presenters: Erica Chan                   Brian Murakami

Lesson Objectives

• Create a pre-prodction treatment for your Podcast

• Record a podcast using Garage Band

• Edit assets and add music

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Background

• What is a PodCast?• a series of audio or video digital-media files which is

distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers

• iPod + Broadcasting = PodCasting

• Early music sharing• Napster• Replay Radio

• RSS helped to promote audio blogging

Podcasting Best Practices

                Do's• Use a good microphone      in a quiet, undisturbed    room • Use a headset to monitor   your voice • Speak clearly

                Don'ts•  Avoid using a generic   wide range microphone • Turn off your computer   speakers when recording   to avoid feedback

The following guidelines are intended for use when creating a

podcast that will be recorded for online presentation.

• Creating a pre-production treatment for your podcasto It all begins with an ideao Outline your showo Write down questions you are going to asko Write down topics you want to covero Write a script for introductions

 • Recording Software

o Garage Band (Mac)o Audacity (PC)

 

Treatment Preparation

Recording Your Voice

Open Garage Band• Create a New Podcast Episode• Save it with title "yourname_podcast" on the desktop

     Overview of Garage Band application• Tracks• Timelines • Recording controls• Track Editor/Loop Browser • Track Info/Media Browser

Recording Voice for Podcast  1. Select the correct track     2. Hit record    3. Speak into the mic  4. Hit record to stop recording  5. Stop timeline 

 

Recording Your Voice

Playback• Go to the Beginning of the Podcast• Play Podcast• Stop playback 

Delete/Replace Track• Select it• Delete it• Follow instructions to record podcast to re-record

 SAVE YOUR WORK! 

Recording Your Voice

      

Optional• Add pictures 

       • Add other tracks/voices/music

o Set track volume  • SAVE YOUR WORK!

Extra Tricks

        Exporting

EXPORT• Only after finished with editing• Necessary for sharing

 How:    

Compress using MP3 Encoder  

Copyright Considerations

If you are publishing this to the web (not just for classroom use):• Use your own ideas, thoughts, comments, pictures• Make your own music mixes (in Garage Band) • Use Creative Commons 

  Rule of thumb: When in doubt, don't publish it!

What do I do with a Podcast?

• Play your podcast for your students using a media player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, etc)

• Upload your podcast to iTunes. Students can subscribe to your podcast and new content will download automatically.

• Upload your podcast to the Internet (website, wiki, blog, etc). If the site has an RSS feed, students can subscribe to your site and receive updates when new content has been posted.

iTunes U

• A free service for higher education from Apple that provides a means for managing, delivering, and accessing educational content.

• Supports the podcasting model, and automated creation of RSS feeds to allow end-users to subscribe to podcasts

• Upload your podcast to the Internet (website, wiki, blog, etc). If the site has an RSS feed, students can subscribe to your site and receive updates when new content has been posted.

iTunes University

Benefits to Students

• They were able to get “intimate” with course material, either by relistening to course lectures and supplements or by teaching the rest of the class.

• They could showcase their projects to the rest of the community, expanding the reach of the classroom to their friends or members of the community.

• They had the opportunity to review course material during pertinent moments in the semester, such as before exams or during course projects.

• They learned new technical skills, whether they were downloading files or creating new ones.

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Resources for K-12 Classroom

• Educational Podcast Networkhttp://epnweb.org/

• Podomatichttp://www.podomatic.com/directory/Education/K-12

• Radio Willow Webhttp://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/Radio/

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