Podcasting Workshop

Podcasting Made Easy Learning Technologies Workshop Monday 14 th February If you haven’t done the pre-workshop survey please check your email for the link.

Workshop Programme

What is a Podcast?

Using Podium

Using Audacity

Using Podbeans

Using the cLc

Getting Fancy

What is a Podcast?

In brief a podcast is:

an audio recording that is distributed via the internet

downloaded and listen to via a PC or mobile device

a syndicated feed that uses RSS to pull the files to the user

The term podcast is a a portmanteau of the words " iPod " and " broadcast ", the Apple iPod being the brand of portable media player for which the first podcasting scripts were developed

Where can I Get Podcasts?

iTunes

Online directories

Types of Podcasts

You can podcast several different types of files

Audio – usually mp3 format

Enhanced Audio (with images) – mv4 format

Video – mpg4 or mov (iPod compatible) – also called vidpod

PDF – also called eBooks

As most people use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts you need to have your files in a format that iTunes recognises

How do I make a Podcast?

3 main steps

Record the audio file

Put it in a ‘broadcast’ folder on internet

Get the subscription link

We will focus on Audio

podcasts today

Record straight into software

Simple editing

Publish with click of button

Get subscription link with click of button

Need FTP site

5GB Monthly Bandwidth

100MB Storage

(100 minutes audio podcast, 25 minutes video podcast with average quality)

Easily include pictures, links, audios and videos, invite comments and categorise your posts

Choose and customize layout from a range of templates

Intuitive Feed Settings and iTunes Preview

Geo Podcast Stats Powered by Google Map

Easily display your podcast to blogs, websites and social networks.

Free Basic Account Details

Demonstration of Podbeans

Go to Lee-Anne’s ePortfolio homepage on cLc to find links to podbean demonstration

Using the cLc to Podcast

Podcasts need an RSS feed to work!

cLc can create RSS folders

Put audio/video files into folder

Copy URL of RSS folder to iTunes

Anywhere you create a folder you can create a podcast

The podcast has the security of the group that it belongs to

Making it Fancy cLc custom page Feedburner creates list Feedburner creates subscribe link Flaming text heading

Feedburner ???

Feedburner takes the URL from the RSS folder and does all the hard work

Owned by Google

Paste URL from RSS folder here

Compare the Podcast Options Inherits from Group Public Public Security Depends on level of finish wanted Easy Very Easy Ease of Use Yes – single click 1 Audio, Video, PDFs etc or combination Account owner Max 100Mb (free) Podbean Yes – need to set up or copy URL Yes – copy URL Subscribe to iTunes? Unlimited Unlimited No of Podcasts Audio, Video, PDFs etc or combination Audio only Content Type Changeable Password protected Ownership ∞ FTP server needed Storage cLc Podium

Websites for Reference