Podcasting Resources
Explore the resource below for how-tos, tutorials, guides, and other help with Podcasting, audio editing software and RSS feeds.
Podcasting 101 Handouts
CTAP 02: Podcasting 101 Handout (Pdf)
CTAP Introduction to Audacity Handout (Pdf)
Podcasting Tutorials
Podcasting Tutorial - tutorial will show you how to create and publish your own podcast quickly and easily.
Educause Learning Initiative - Guide to Podcasting Web Site
Guide to Podcasting (Pdf)
Guide to Podcasting - from GuidesandTutorials
Learning in Hand - Podcasting samples and resources for educators and students.
Audacity Tutorials
Audacity Tutorial: How to Record and Edit Audio with Audacity - Dozens of multimedia narrated tutorials on creating audio recordings with Audacity software from GuidesandTutorials.com
Audacity Tutorial for Podcasters - from How To Podcast
RSS Tutorials
Introduction to RSS Feeds - an introductory tutorial about RSS feeds and how to create them.
Articles about Podcasting in Education
Podcasting in the Classroom
Article by Briana Flanagan. Published in learning & Leading with Technology, November 2006
There's Something in the Air - Podcasting in Education
by Gardner Campbell. Published in Educause Review, November/December 2005
Create Podcasts Learning in Hand web site provides a tutorial and information about creating podcasts in the classroom. Web site explains preproduction, recording, postproduction, and the publishing stages of creating a podcast.
Podcasting Legal Guide Web site by Creative Commons provides explanation of the legal and copyright issues affecting creating podcasts. Topics include: copyright (for written content, music, and video), publicity rights, and some introductory material on podcasting.
Lesson Plans:
Casting a Wide Net: Writing and Producing a Class Podcast Daily Lesson Plan web site provides a lesson plan for grades 6-12 that integrate Language Arts, Media Studies, and Technology. Final project is that students create a pod cast.
Articles:
Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts Article by Jeffrey Selingo on the NY Times learning site, explains podcasts and their use in schools.
iPods, podcasts latest teaching tool in classrooms. Article by Gil Klein for Potomac News.com explains the growing trend to use podcasts in K-12. Also provided are links to school podcasts.
Additional Sound Recording Applications
Other applications specialize in just sound recording. Some of these are used for taking sound directly from other applications in addition to traditional input devices like microphones. If you needed to record audio from Skype, for example, some of the applications below will make that possible.
Audio Hijack Pro - Audio Hijack Pro is an application that can record sound from any sound input or running application on a Mac computer.
Total Sound Recorder - Total Sound Recorder is an inexpensive recording application for Windows. It will record from all of the standard input sources as well as other software applications.
Audio In - a freeware recording tool
Hot Recorder - records directly from Skype
Virtual Audio Cable 3 - also records directly from Skype
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