This document provides information on podcasts and how to create them. It defines a podcast as a digital media file that is episodic and can be subscribed to for download or streaming. It discusses the role of web feeds in distributing podcasts and outlines the basic steps to create a podcast using audio recording software like Audacity, including recording, trimming, saving, exporting and creating an RSS feed. It also provides information on submitting the podcast to services like iTunes.

1. Podcast/Vodcast

2. Today
• What is (not) a podcast
• How do you make one
• Tools for making, editing and distributing
• Play

3. What is a Pod/vodcast
• Noun and verb
• Digital media
• Episodic
• Subscribed to and downloaded through
web syndication
• or streamed online to a computer or
mobile device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

4. What is a Web Feed
• A document with web links to the source of
the content
• Maintained on the distributor's server
• Accessed using a podcatcher or
aggregator (i.e. iTunes)
• Language = XML (usually)
• Formats = RSS or Atom (usually)

5. Distributor
server
http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resources/podcasting/how_it_works.html

6. What is not a Podcast
• Webcast – internet streaming

7. Monash
Podcasts
http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/podcast/

8. Creating a podcast
1. Create the object
– Captivate, PowerPoint, audio
2. Save to a server with byte-range support
enabled and a publicly accessible URL
– Byte-range support allows users to stream the
media
3. Create a webfeed

9. Make the podcast accessible
• Submit the URL for your feed to iTunes or
other
– http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Soft
ware.html

10. Create a podcast - Audacity
• Free
• Available on Monash computers
• Today
– Recording
– Trimming
– Saving
– Exporting

11. Using Audacity – basics
• Recording
• Trimming
• Saving
• Exporting
Skip to
Play Record
Start Audio Slider
Selection Envelope Draw
Zoom Timeshift Multi-tool
Skip to
Pause Stop
End

12. Create a Webfeed
• http://poderator.com/account.aspx?id=0

13. Validate Your Feed
http://validator.w3.org/appc/

14. iTunes
• Podcast can be an audio recording, video, or
even a text document.
• Supported file formats include .m4a, .mp3, .mov,
.mp4, .m4v, .pdf and .epub.

15. Submit your Podcast
Open iTunes
1. Click Podcasts
2. Click Submit a Podcast
3. Enter your Podcast Feed URL

16. Issues & Bits
• Content copyright
• Where to store the objects for public
access
• iTunes U

17. Resources
• Library Guide
– Links to tutorial videos