Podcasting2: Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting
Once you have created a podcast, now what? This workshop addresses issues relating to podcast hosting, bandwidth, options for creating and managing feeds, as well as copyright / intellectual property issues. Portable recorders and additional equipment for in-the-field and more sophisiticated podcasting are also addressed. This is a session for people familar with podcasts and the process of creating them, but wanting more information about sharing podcasts and managing podcasting projects at a building or district level.
I've Made An Audio-Podcast! Now What?
Pre-workshop requirements
- Be open to new ideas about engaging students with multimedia!
- Review or have completed an introductory podcasting workshop (similar to mine)
Your first assignment!
Please take a few minutes and answer the three questions posted to our workshop blog by leaving a comment on each post. (If you don't already have a Blogger account, you can post anonymously, but if you do please include your first name in your comment.)
The continuum of podcasting types
- Audio-only
- Enhanced (synchronized pictures)
- Video http://www.infinitethinkingmachine.org
Taking cues from the Pros
- Room208 - Sample: Room 208 Podcast: 05.12.06
- Radio Willowweb - Sample: Willowcast #14: Life in the Colonies
- NPR Podcasts, NPR Technology - Sample: NPR Technology 6 Dec 06
- Science Friday - Sample: Energy Independence from 17 Nov 06
- This Week in Tech - Sample: http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/TWiT0079H.mp3">Dec 4, 2006
- More great examples from Maria Henderson's podcasting examples page
Find Podcasts
Getting Creative with Podcasting Ideas
Hosting Options
- Upload the podcast to your local school server, using a mapped drive or ftp
- Upload podcasts to a commercial hosting service like Liberated Syndication
- More hosting options are compared on this PDF Handout (3 pages)
Web Feeds
Creating the Feed
- Some hosting services (like Liberated Syndication) include free options for creating your web feed / podcasting feed
- You can use a blogging tool like Blogger.com or a Wordpress blog to create a podcasting web feed
- Use the free Podchains service to create a web feed
- Use Del.icio.us (my del.icio.us)
- Use commercial software like http://www.podifier.com/ to create and upload your RSS feed.
- Use Blogger: Sample - Mills Murfee Podcast (Mac users: Use FireFox not Safari for WYSIWYG editing)
- Buy and use an Apple Podcasting Server
- Download, install and configure free LoudBlog server software to permit teachers to publish podcasts directly
- Use a free or commercial version of PodcastPeople to publish and host podcasts
Tracking Podcast Subscribers
- PodPress Plugin (for Wordpress)
- Feedburner
Quality, Bitrates, and Formats
Managing Podcasts in the Classroom
- Use an electronic whiteboard for whole-class podcasting
- Use an external microphone
- Find a quiet place to record
- Save all clips for a podcast in a single folder
- Make a storyboard
- Name and label each clip with a number and descriptive text
- Have students make their own digital music transitions
- Talk about copyright/IP/fair use and free legal music sources
Enhanced and Video Podcasts on Windows XP?
- Use PhotoStory!
- Free Windows-Media to iPod compatible video converter
Advanced Equipment Options
- M-Audio rocks! :-)
- Mics
- Portable Recorders:
- Mixers
- Keyboards
Permission Forms
- What is the #1 most burning question you have about podcasting today?
- What are your two greatest fears or concerns about classroom podcasting?
- What questions about copyright/intellectual property and podcasting do you have as a result of listening to the preso on IP/podcasting?
Workshop Discussion/Brainstrorming Results
Other Referenced Sites
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