January+Podcasts

Post your podcast below. Thanks to Darren for the instructions on publishing podcasts!

There are lots of ways of publishing podcasts. One of the easiest is using [|Odeo]. Odeo generates some html code that you can copy and paste into your blog. It embeds a flash player for your podcast right in the blog post. The down side is that you can only publish up to 3 mintes of audio at a time (I think). If you buy a paid account the time limit is removed.

My prefered way of creating podcasts is using [|Audacity] to record the audio and do the post production. I posted about using audacity on one of my class blogs [|here]. (There's even a screencast tutorial to using Audacity.)

I like using [|Ourmedia.org] to host the mp3 files. Registration and uploading is a little cumbersome but they store all your media, for free, forever.

Once you've made your podcast and hosted it on a server somewhere (another hosting option is [|mediamax.com] -- 25 GB, that's not a typo, of free space -- or [|podomatic]) just create a link to it here.

I think that I have done my homework. I published to Itunes and it played on my machine. I then went to ourmedia and posted it there. It is rough and done very quickly. I will redo it when there is time. I used garageband on the mac to create it. I did not know anybetter. January 06 The Big Snow Podcast? Still need to work on somethings. [|My Podcast!!] Enjoy Chris

I wrestled unsuccessfully with Ourmedia for while, and finally gave up and tried Odeo. It was amazingly easy, and I don't think there is a 3 minute limit. The timer on my recording said 1 hour. (Don't worry, I didn't talk nearly that long!) Anyway, [|here] it is. It is not very exciting, but I have now done my first podcast! -- Jeanne //Update...It worked, and it could not have been easier to do!!!!//

I am going to cheat a bit, if I might, because my cold right now has made podcasting quite a horrid thing to listen to, so......I am going to share a podcast I created on December 13th. I used Skype's recorder Pamela and then took it into Audacity to fix the mix a bit. The skype was created with 75 2nd grade students from New York (I am in CA). We were participating with [|Walden Media] to break the Guiness Book World Record for simultaneous reading of a book. As of today, our reading is still the only SKYPECHAT that is represented in the project by Walden Media, so we are getting a bit of attention. I hope you enjoy...........Click [|HERE] to listen. Jennifer Wagner, Technospud.com

Okay, I did something a little different for my podcast.... I used an Olympus digital voice recorder and interviewed my fourteen year old daughter, Meg, about her use of online social spaces such as myspace, fictionpress, iLike, and facebook. It was a terrific interview, but I was disappointed with the audio quality - such a newbie at this. And, of course, I have the drawback of working with a PC, not a MAC! Any hints or suggestions about editing an audio file (with audacity, presumably) would be appreciated. I used both high pass and low pass filters to get rid of the scratchy "s" noises. My discussion and thoughts behind this podcast can be found on my blog - Musings, [|A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces.]

[|The Podcast] has been uploaded to PodoMatic. Sharon Peters, skype name = eebee1, sharonpeter@gmail.com


 * Darren Kuropatwa:** //I'm going to cheat a little bit too in that I'm sharing a couple of podcasts I've made previously. These ones were done with my students, both grade 12 classes:// //[|Pre-Cal 40S]// //and// //[|Applied Math 40S]////. They were recorded at the end of the last school year. I call them// //[|podcapsules]////. Here is a more recent one I did with// //[|Bud Hunt]// //where we talked about our// //[|"Back To School"]// //plans.//