Composing your own Podcast

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Composing your own Podcast
Podcast

• UM-FLINT SUPER SCIENCE FRIDAY May 4, 2007
• Workshop Presenters
• Nick GasparOffice of Extended Learning
• Debi RowdenInformation Technology Services
  Department

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What is a Podcast?

• A Web-based audio (and now video) broadcast via
  an RSS feed
• The word podcast is a play on the word broadcast
  combined with the word iPod
• You do not have to have an iPod to listen to a
  podcast.
• You can listen to podcasts on anything that plays
  MP3s

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Step 1 Be a Subscriber

• Radio ITS has links to Technology podcasts and
  podcasts for kidshttp//ww2.umflint.edu/RadioITS
  

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Use iTunes to Subscribe!
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Step 2 Prepare Your Material

• In general, a good podcast meets the following
  criteria
• Its topical and newsworthy
• Its thought-provoking
• Its informative
• It contains a unique point of view
• It has structure (beginning, middle and end)
• It will be published consistently (on a daily,
  weekly or monthly basis)

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Step 3 Set Up Your Recording Studio

• You will need
• Computer (PC or Mac) with Internet connection
• Software (Audacity or GarageBand, and iTunes)
• Microphone and Speakers or Headset
• For a video podcast, you can use a webcam

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Step 4 Make Your Masterpiece

• Record
• Complete script
• An outline
• Stream of consciousness" format
• Edit
• Add music intro and ending
• Add sound effects
• Cut dead air
• Save
• Save as MP3 file
• Publish
• Choose a host for your podcast

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Creating your podcast today

• Assign speaker numbers to group members and
  silently read your part of the script
• Go to Radio ITS web site and choose a music file
  for your intro. Save it on the laptop in the My
  Music folder
• Import your audio (music) file into Audacity
• Record the script, avoiding dead air
• Export your podcast as a MP3 to the My Music
  folder, naming it the same as the topic at the
  top of your script
• Burn a CD with your podcast file for each speaker

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Any Questions?

• Thank you for your interest in podcasting!
• Remember to visit Radio ITS later to listen to
  all the podcasts from Super Science Friday!