Friday 4th July 2008

Podcasting is Really Simple

In today’s episode...

• What is a podcast?

• How to get a podcast

• How to create a podcast

What is a podcast?

• A method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio and increasingly video files.

How to get a podcast onto your computer

Decide what you want to

find

Go to a website that contains an RSS

feed

Use a catalogue and aggregator such as iTunes to search,

browse and subscribe to your chosen podcast

Use an appropriate browser or an aggregator (e.g. iTunes or Doppler) to subscribe to the podcast

Download episodes to an mp3 player if

you want

Using e-Folio

www.essexseal.mypodcast.com

I want to create a podcast

• Decide on the subject and plan the episode

• Choose appropriate software and equipment

• Publish your RSS feed to a website

• Publicise your podcast

• Prepare

• Perform

• Produce

• Publish

• Promote

The Primary Framework

•Take any digitally recorded audio outcomes from pupils’ work and share with a wider audience via the Internet

•For example, as part of the Y6 journalistic writing unit pupils may produce a radio news bulletin and augment it with interviews, adverts and other types of text appropriate to the medium of radio.

Podium (audio mp3)

Softease

Revelation Sight & Sound

or similar (video mp4)

Logotron

Workflow on a PC

Author content and create media Publish to internet

Garageband (audio)

iLife

iMovie (video)

iLife

Workflow on a Mac

Author content and create media Publish to internet