Can You Hear Me Now

Can You Hear Me Now? How to Make a Podcast Max Anderson, Technology Coordinator National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region

What makes these two different?

Who do we have to thank for Podcasting?

The Podfather

Here’s ALL What You’ll Need!

Aggregators Social Networking Folksonomies Videocasting Perpetual Beta Wikis Tags Social Bookmarking RSS Collaboration Pay per Click Blogs Atom Feeds IM xhtml SMS Blogroll texting Syndication xml Podcasting .

What is Podcasting?

Podcasting= iPod + Broadcasting

Distribute multimedia files over the Internet for playback on portable media devices or personal computers

Series of episodes regularly updated

What is Podcasting?

Typically audio files are .mp3 files

Typically video files are .mp4 files

Push technology

Give listeners control over when, where and how

Ask a Ninja – Special Delivery 1: What is Podcasting

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug

The biggest myth: “You need to buy an iPod!”

You don’t need an iPod to listen to it (or any other dedicated .mp3 player really)

You can listen to audio files on your computer if you wish (or your smart phone, your pda, your digital media player)

Why Should I Have a Podcast?

Meet the needs of your audience

Time-saving

on-demand

Control over when, where and what

Easy to use, low cost and fit into today’s mobile world

http://www.paulcolligan.com/podcast-statistics/

Easy to set up and manage

Increase information delivery to reach extended users

What Types of Things Could I Podcast?

News update

Book/Journal reviews

Classes/events

Library tours

Interviews with healthcare professionals, researchers, community-based organizations

Check out http://delicious.com/gmrtechcoord/podcast.example

How to Get a Podcast?

Finding podcasts

Odeo http://odeo.com/

iTunes http://www.apple.com/podcasting/

iTunesU http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html

Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/

Lots of other places to look…

The Podcaster How-to! Several important things to consider Design & record your audio / video content Edit your files and save them to MP3 (audio) or MPEG4 (video) format They can listen to the podcast on their Computer, or download it to an MP3 player or iPod Upload the files and publish the feed Someone subscribes to your feed They open their feedreader

Two terms to know well

Sample rate

Like frames of a movie

The higher the rate, the larger the file

44.100 kHz is typical (set this before recording)

Bit rate

Amount of information processed per unit of time (bits/sec)

Higher number is better, but larger file

64 kbps for voice and double for music

Practice Time!

Practice Time: Sign Up for a Podbean Account

http://www.podbean.com

Practice Time: Software Preparation

Audacity – cross-platform free audio recording & editing software

Download: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

LAME code – converting audio to MP3 format

Download: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?lame_enc

GarageBand – audio recording software for Mac

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Practice Time: Hardware Preparation

You!

Computer

Microphone

Camcorder (optional)

Practice Time: Design Your Content

Who’s your audience?

What topic you want to cover?

Practice Time: Recording and Editing

Who will do it?

How to edit?

Practice Time: Uploading and Publishing

Upload your podcast to your podbean account

Generate an RSS feed

Notify your audience

Moodle

Go to http://nnlm.gov/moodle

Select the course: “Can You Hear Me Now”

Create a new account (on Moodle)

Enrollment Key is ‘nnlmpodcast’ (without the quotes)

Follow directions and create your podcast within 2 weeks to receive MLA CE Credit!

What will your users think? This Podcast is über cool!

Questions? Max C Anderson Technology Coordinator NN/LM Greater Midwest Region [email_address] 312-996-2008

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