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Podcasting The Newest, Coolest Way to Reach
Readers

• Art Spencer
• Chinook Elementary School
• 10/13/06

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What is Podcasting?

• Podcasts are radio or video programs, made
  available on the Internet for people to download
  and play on any computer or personal audio/video
  player

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What makes podcasts special?

• Unique delivery method
• Independent content creators
• 70 of podcast listeners listen on a computer
• No iPod needed!

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Why use this new media?

• Auditory learners
• Sight impaired
• Time shifted
• Students have access
• Its hip

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Educational Ideas

• ESL and Translation
• Virtual literature circle
• How Tos
• Publishing audio books/stories
• Students as content creators
• Others?

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How to listen to podcasts

• Download a pod catcher (Aggregator)
• iTunes

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• Juice

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• Enter a feed address (or add it from the
  directory)
• Other directories
• Odeo, http//odeo.com/
• Podcast Alley, http//www.podcastalley.com/
• Podcast Pickle, http//www.podcastpickle.com/

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Some examples

• Book Voyages
• Podictionary
• Room 208
• Storynory
• Who Said?
• Others?

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How to podcast

• What you need
• Hardware
• Software
• Storage

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What you need Hardware

• A computer, faster and bigger better
• A microphone or Video Camera
• Simple headset mic
• Digital Video camera best
• Video Capture Hardware (optional)

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Hardware (cont.)

• Preamp (optional)
• Mixer (optional)
• If interviewing, need 2 mics

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What you need Software

• Recording/editing software
• Audacity, http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Adobe Audition
• iMovie, http//www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
• Many others
• Broadband Internet connection

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What you need Storage

• Hosting for blog, feed, media files
• All in one sites
• Libsyn, http//www.libsyn.com/
• Odeo, http//odeo.com/
• Own server
• Wordpress
• Feed for All, http//www.feedforall.com/
• Media

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Storage The All Free Method

• Blog Blogger
• http//www.blogger.com/
• Feed Feedburner
• http//www.feedburner.com/
• Files Our media
• http//www.ourmedia.org/

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Step by Step Podcast

• Write a script
• Record script
• Edit recording
• Post audio file
• Make blog entry
• Ping Feedburner
• Test download

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Closing

• QA
• If you need help
• Yahoo Podcasters Group
• http//tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasters/
• Me
• bookvoyages_at_gmail.com