Podcast Class

• Teaching Ideas: from the www.mtsu.edu/podcast web site
  (Podcasting - PowerPoint Presentation)

1. Record the Podcast

• Use Audacity to record your podcast if you are recording from your desktop or laptop computer.
• Use a mobile digital recording device such as a digital audio recorder or microphone attached to an iPod to record your podcast away from your computer.
• Sample Script - Podcasting Script Part 1

2. Edit Audio and Image

• Use Audacity to edit your audio recording.
  • Download piano music - password protected (ask instructor for password)
    ( This piano music was purchased at http://www.musicbakery.com/ ) - Can be used for more than one podcast
  • Download "Personal Introduction"  - Can be used for more than one podcast
  • Download Podcast - "Introduction to Podcasting"
  • Download - "End of Podcast" - Can be used for more than one podcast
• Use Photoshop to Edit Image
  • Download Web Ready Image - Ready to use for class demonstration
  • Download Photoshop Image

3. Create an RSS Feed so that people can subscribe to your podcast

• Download this file, finishedbroadcast_feed.xml and edit it with a text editor like Notepad or a web page editor (FrontPage or Dreamweaver).
• RSS_tutorial.doc created from ( http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html ) and http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html
• iTunes Categories

4. Upload your edited audio recordings and XML file to your web site and link to them.

1. Open your sample web site in Internet Explorer
2. Choose “Edit with FrontPage” from the File Menu.
3. Login
4. Import your audio recording and XML file into your web site. Choose Import from the file menu.
5. Link to your XML file from a web page.

Class Sample Web Sites

5. Validate Your RSS Feed.

• http://feedvalidator.org/

6. Subscribe to your Podcast

1. Click on the link to your XML page
2. Copy the URL for the XML page
   (right click and choose to copy the shortcut from the menu that pops up).
3. Open iTunes
4. Choose Subscribe to the Podcast from the Advanced menu.
5. iTunes will start downloading the current audio files listed in the feed. New content will be downloaded when it becomes available.

1. Sample Finished Broadcast - Introduction to Podcasting

2. Sample Working File: denny_sarokin_rss_feed.xml
   and
   URL:  http://www.dennysarokin.com/sound_bytes.htm