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Podcasting 101 Demonstration
Intec Team Spring 2007
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Don Versteeg – Intec Director
Wendy Stubbs – Project Director
• Initial idea for project
• Created slideshow
• Presented demonstration
• Team assisted in research & minimal
presentation
Project team: Beth Simmons, Jane Lu,
Arnold Schaeffer and Cathy Zortman
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Table of Contents
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What is Podcasting?
Podcasting in 4 Steps
Equipment
How to start
Downloads
How Are Podcasts Created?
Software to Record Podcasts
Software to Receive Podcasts
Educational Uses of Podcasts
How to Buy a Digital Media Player
Purchasing Digital Files
Downloading to an MP3 Player
References
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Early audio files
 Scratchy
45’s,
33’s or 78’s
 Cassettes, 8tracks, reel to
reel
 Digital world
today
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What is Podcasting?
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“Podcasts are video or audio files that are
downloaded to your personal computer, and
then transferred to an iPod or other digital
media player using a podcasting application.”
Modern Solution for Online Learning –
sharing audio or video files (vodcasting)
instead of sharing records!
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Audio File vs. Podcast
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Audio File - just a
link to an audio file
on a web site or
within Web CT
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Podcast –
downloadable
through a RSS feed
(Really Simple
Syndication).
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Podcasting in 4 easy steps
Step 1 RPDL (Record, Publish, Download, Listen)
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RECORD your
lecture on your
media player or in
a software
program.
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Step 2
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PUBLISH your file to a web server,
WebCT or your web site.
Audio file link
OR, If you want to access your file,
you need to also publish your file to
an RSS file (newsfeed).
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Step 3
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DOWNLOAD file: End-users regularly check
for new versions of the newsfeed, using an
application like iPodder. (RSS is used.)
When a new version is found, iPodder reads
through it, identifies the audio file URLs, and
downloads them.
You then sync them to your media player.
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Podcasting in 4 Easy Steps
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Users LISTEN to the "podcasted"
audio file when it is convenient, either
on their computer or digital media
player.
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Diagram
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What Equipment Do I Need?
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The basic requirements for podcasting are a
computer (PC or Mac), microphone, (if you
want to create one) podcasting software (see
list of options) and an Internet connection.
For portability, an iPod or other digital media
player is needed.
Many cell or smart phones have a media
player within them now as well.
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How Do I Get Started?
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Download and install podcasting software
onto your computer. Although applications
vary, each should provide instructions on
how to add podcast feeds to your list.
Then, just check for the new podcasts and
files of your selected programs that will be on
your computer and, if you are set up, on your
portable media player.
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Downloads and Resources
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iTunes: Free podcasting software (PC and
Mac) - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
iPodder: Free podcasting software (PC) –
www.myipodownloads.com/?hop=rob9966
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jPodder: Free podcasting software (PC)
- http://www.jpodder.com/
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IPOD – probably most popular
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Ipodder
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Jpodder
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How Podcasts Are Created
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After planning your content or lecture, you need to
record it in a program that compresses your audio
to an MP3 format. ITunes and Audacity work as well
as others.
Podcasts are not all planned or edited as some are
amateurish and not planned at all. The beginning
Podcasts have probably been less planned but as
more people create and listen to Podcasts one might
suspect the quality would improve.
Podcasts are really a type of Internet Broadcasting
such as Internet Radio.
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What Software is Needed for this?
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Software to Record Podcasts
• You need software to create an audio file.
• One popular free program is Audacity which
is a free download that can be used to record
and edit audio files.
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
• It is a cross platform software which is nice
• Audacity can also change format to MP3 with
the free LAME encoder.
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Audacity
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Receive Podcasts
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Software to Receive Podcasts
ITunes – found at
www.Itunes.com
IPodder Lemon (now called
Juice) is a podcatcher that uses
RSS feeds.
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.
net/index.php
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Educational uses for Podcasting
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Classroom lectures can be recorded on a
portable MP3 player and uploaded to WebCT
or one’s website.
Computer software tutorials can be done in
an audio file for audio learners.
You can assign the class to listen to a
famous speech.
Bring your subject to life with audio files such
as speech or history.
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Positive uses
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Useful for audio learners
Beneficial for students who need to listen
to lessons or lectures more than once
Can assist in making a lecture or
classroom presentation come alive!
Students can listen at their convenience!
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Challenges
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Server space
Will students listen to them
or just not come to class and
listen to the make up lecture
on their IPod?
Time to plan and develop
Podcasts
Training curve
Cost of using the technology
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How to Buy a Digital Media Player
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There are several options when buying an MP3 or Digital Media player.
IPod is the popular brand, but look into other companies that make them
as well.
Considerations when purchasing a player might be the following: hard
drive space, FM radio or not, does the player store pictures and videos,
the play screen if it uses videos, its accessories, and compatibility.
One way to purchase one is by their product types or according the
manufacturers.
Cnet.com sorts these players into the following Flash player
Digital player
Radio / digital player
CD / MP3 player
Hard drive
NOTE: Many cell phones are media players today as well!
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Digital Media Player companies
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Apple – Ipod
Creative Zen – Creative Labs, Inc.
Zune – Microsoft
Sony
There are several online articles on how to
purchase one:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125648page,1/article.html
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Purchasing Digital Files
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You can purchase MP3 files (esp. music)
from a wide variety of sources: ITunes, WalMart, TuneTribe, Rhapsody, Napster and
many more.
Compare prices as well as the correct type of
file that you are looking for
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Downloading to an MP3 Player
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Your MP3 player will come with instructions on how
to accomplish this. Generally when you buy or copy
songs, the MP3’s will go to a certain folder on your
computer such as My Music or within a service you
might use such as Yahoo, Windows Media Player or
your ITunes account.
You then need to sync your player with your
computer by hooking up a cable from your player to
the computer with the USB port. This is often an
automatic operation once connected or your player
may ask what you want to sync.
You can copy your CD’s into your player as well.
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References:
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Deitz, C. (2007). How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step
Tutorial. http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm
Podcasting News. http://www.podcastingnews.com/
Saving MP3 Files for Podcasts:
www.podcastingnews.com/articles/Exporting_MP3s_Audacity.html
Get Started with Podcasts in 3 Steps:
www.podcastingnews.com/articles/Getting_Started_With_Podc.html
What is Podcasting?
www.podcastingnews.com/articles/What_is_Podcasting.html
Podcasting Tutorial: Step by Step ... How to Podcast Using FeedForAll
www.feedforall.com/podcasting-tutorial.htm
What is a Podcast (vs. Audioblogs & Webcasts)?
http://podcast.isthereason.com/?p=9
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Internet Music and Audio Guide:
www.viewz.com/shoppingguide/musicguide.shtml
Podcast Adoption – Podcasting versus Streaming
http://podcasting.about.com/od/podcastingversusstreaming/f/streamingpod.htm
What is Podcasting?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=765797
How to Podcast:
www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/22-free-podcast-hosting.htm
Converters Source:
www.sofotex.com/download/Multimedia/Video/
How MP3 Files Work:
www.howstuffworks.com/mp3.htm
How to Podcast: www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/
IPod Tutorial: www.feedforall.com/ipod-tutorial.pdf
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