Podcasting:

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Podcasting

• Its Easier Than You Think

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What is a Podcast?

• Podcasting
• Method of publishing via the Internet
• Audio
• Video
• Allows subscriptions
• The term podcast is a combination of Ipod
  and broadcasting
• This is somewhat of a misnomer
• Any MP3 player will work
• Or listen on your computer

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Podcasting In Education

• 61 of students in a 470 highschooler survey said
  that had some sort of MP3 player
• Kindergarten students are loaned iPods to
  practice vocabulary
• Some colleges are giving out iPods to freshmen so
  that they can listen to podcasts of class
  lectures
• Recreates some of the in-class experience
• Allows some flexibility
• More accessible
• Student misses class (for a good reason of
  course!)
• Wants to review material
• If they missed something, they can go back and
  listen to it in context

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Other Educational Uses

• School news
• Events
• Pitches for prospective students
• Campus tours

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Plan Your Podcast

• Very important step!
• think about what you want to say
• organize your show accordingly
• Make notes
• prepare your interviews
• improvise as little as possible

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Get the Gear

• Necessary equipment
• Microphone
• Headset
• Tabletop
• Griffin iTalk
• Recording Software
• Audacity
• Skype
• Virtual Audiojack
• Audio Hijack

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MP3 Encoding

• LAME MP3 Encoder
• Audacity plugin
• iTunes
• More flexible
• Control compression
• Original file must be AIFF or WAV format

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Sample Podcast format

• Shoot for a show length of 20-30 minutes.
• Keep topics moving, and limit topic coverage to
  5-8 minutes.
• Suggestion Try to use guests as a way to break
  up the conversation, pace, and tone of your
  shows.
• Use musical backgrounds (known as jingles) or
  other non-music interludes to transition between
  topics.

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Example show outline

• Show intro
• who you are
• what you're going to talk about
• Aim for 30-60 seconds
• Intro music jingle 30-60 seconds
• Topic 1 5 minutes
• Topic 2 5 minutes
• Interlude (music or break) 30 seconds
• Topic 3 5 minutes
• Topic 4 5 minutes
• Closing remarks
• thank audience for listening
• thank guests
• talk about the next show briefly
• 2 minutes
• Closing music jingle (suggest same as Intro music
  jingle) 2 minutes or less

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Links

• iTunes
• http//www.apple.com/itunes/
• Audacity
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/