As the topic for this week's OZ/NZ Flashmeeting was podcasting, I invited Mark Pentleton to join us and share his wide knowledge and experience. His presence was much appreciated by all and the discussion provided many tips and tricks. You can watch a replay of the meeting here and download an audio version below.
Thanks Mark for giving up some of your Sunday morning to talk about educational podcasting and for explaining how to set up a professional podcasting studio for passionate podcasters. Great stuff.
Download Passionate_about_podcasting.mp3
Summary
- Introductions and definitions
- creating the Nodehill French Grammar podcasts
- seeing the learning process (script, record, edit)
- working out how to put podcasts on to iTunes
- learning how to use Audacity
- taking care when saving your recording
- avoiding the temptation to remove all the 'errs'
- producing compact podcasts with no ramble
- teacher-produced v student-produced podcasts
- podcasting for distance learning opportunities
- creating and distributing content via RSS, a blog, CD or intranet
- podcasting v audio streaming
- making it as easy as possible to provide listeners with new content through subscription
- learning steps for podcasting (mp3 creation, posting on the web, using RSS)
- providing the incentive for pupils to subscribe to podcasts
- using The Levelator to balance audio levels for your podcast
- levelating only the vocal track not music track
- exporting individual tracks in Audacity
- the power of combining music with speech
- finding podsafe music
- advice on suitable podcasting hardware to achieve good quality audio
- going pro
- using lapel microphones with mini jacks for mp3 players
- recording Skype calls for podcasting purposes
- balancing separate channels to avoid speakers being in only one ear
- splitting tracks to replace unnecessary speech with silence
- creating your own RSS feed
- podcasting with a mobile phone and Gabcast
Show Notes
Nodehill French Grammar Podcasts
Podcasting and language skills
Installing the Lame Encoder and exporting as mp3
Giant Audio Squid lapel microphones
Podcasting Pearls at PodCampUK
Celebrating the New Year with Gabcast
Enjoyed taking part in the Flashmeeting this morning and now watching the remainder of the discussion that I missed. I also wish I'd cleaned the office before taking the pic for Joe! Thanks, Joe, for the links.
Posted by: Mark | 01/06/2008 at 17:16