The Basics of Podcasting Todd W. Jorns Senior Director for Educational Technology Illinois Community College Board
Podcast (iPOD broadCAST) is an audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player. Although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may contain music. Video Podcasts - vodcasts
Podcast Using the RSS 2.0 syndication format, podcasts are made available to subscribers just like news feeds. The client program that captures the audio feeds and synchronizes them with the music player is a "podcatcher“, such as Curry's own iPodder, available at
Podcasting Process Access Subscribe using podcatcher Download episode Playback episode Create Record episode Edit episode Distribute Publish episode to webserver Reference episode in feed
Podcasting in Education Distribute course content Provide overview of week Distribute lecture content Provide examples Add personalization to online classes Increase student involvement Accommodates mobile learning Student presentations or reflection
Podcasting Benefits Low-cost, low-barrier tool for disseminating content Designed for offline listening Content is delivered to students Frees learning from physical constraints Reaches out to auditory learners
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Podcast – Free Software Audacity Easy to use Multi-track audio Multi-platform (Mac & PC)
Podcast – Free Software LAME Encoder Allows Audacity to save audio files as mp3 Download file Unzip the file Place “lame_enc.dll” into the Audacity program folder l&item=lame-mp3 l&item=lame-mp3
Audacity Tutorials Part 1 t1.swf t1.swf Part 2 t2.swf t2.swf Part 3 t3.swf t3.swf
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