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Podcasting - How to Publish Your Podcast |
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Podcasting can be an extremely effective way to communicate with students, parents, and other patrons of your school. This page has been created to provide you with an overview of the publishing process. An Audio Pocast Is: - An audio file you create in .mp3 format...
- Which contains your own radio show or any audio you wish others to have...
- That you upload along with an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) file to a server (your school website for instance)...
- That your intended listeners download using one of several programs that have been created to retrieve your audio file automatically...
- So they can listen to it at their convenience on their own iPod or .mp3 player.
A Video Pocast Is: - Just like an audio podcast, but with video.
- It begins with a video file you create in Mpeg4 format (.m4v)...
- Which contains your own show or any video content you wish others to have...
- That you upload along with an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) file to a server (your school website for instance)...
- That your intended viewers download using one of several programs that have been created to retrieve your video file automatically...
- So they can watch to it at their convenience on their own iPod or video player.
What You Need to Podcast - Something to say - This is not necessarily as simple as it sounds. Hearing someone else podcast is often inspiring - you think "I could do that", but when you sit down and hit record, ummm well, you know, the pauses can be bigger than the speaking bits. You will save yourself time if you think about what it is that you're going to say and how you're going to structure your podcast before you start. Using an outliner can be useful here, but simply making some notes will help.
- A recording device - Your computer most likely has some sort of internal microphone and a sound card. This option might not make for great audio quality, but at least they get you started. A first investment might be a good microphone - you can find examples on this Podcasting Hardware page.
- Somewhere to record - You need somewhere quiet, preferably without a lot of bare walls and empty surfaces. Even with great expensive equipment, if you sit in a big bare empty room with no carpet or furniture, it will sound like you're at the bottom of a well or perhaps in a coal cellar. You may get round this by choosing to do your recording out of doors, in which case the noises become a feature rather than a bug.
- Access to the internet - You school has this (most of the time).
- Somewhere to store your podcast online - Your school website will do just fine.
- An RSS feed (What is RSS?) - In order to get your podcast distributed to others efficiently, you will need the capability of producing an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. Apple's GarageBand software creates these feeds for you automatically, but you can get someone else to host your feed - Feedburner is a popular service and has a specific podcasting template.
Creating Your Podcast - Preparation.
- Recording - GarageBand and the Open Source Audacity are great at recording and mixing audio. iMovie makes video editing a snap. These tutorials from Apple make podcasting so easy that even your Grandma could do it (start in GarageBand or iWeb)
- Mixing and post-production.
- Encoding - The free iTunes will do all of the encoding for you.
Posting Your Podcast - Upload your audio file.
- Create or update your RSS/XML feed - iWeb does this for you. The Fedafi site will also do the trick.
Promoting Your Podcast How-To Podcasting Articles
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