1. Creating an Enhanced Podcast Using a Mac Jen La Certe Chaparral Middle School

2. Enhanced Podcast Uses sound & pictures Can be viewed/heard in iTunes or any mp3 player Easy for students & teachers to create Does not require excessive storage

3. What You Need A Mac GarageBand or Audacity Pictures (or PowerPoint or Keynote slides) A plan

4. Garage Band & Audacity All new Mac’s come with Garage Band Audacity is mainly for PCs and can be downloaded for free—it is only for audio Keynote is the Mac version of PowerPoint…either one works

5. GarageBand Click on Create New Podcast Episode

6. Using GarageBand Text You will give your project a name You should create a new folder to keep all your stuff in

8. Recording Audio: voice Click on a track (male or female voice) Click on the red record button and speak clearly into the top of the screen To stop recording click red button and play button

9. Putting in Pictures Click photos on the media browser Click on the photo you want and drag it to the podcast track

10. Put the photo in and match it with the audio

11. You can add fun stuff using the Jingles track and the many choices below.

12. Some Tips on PowerPoint or Keynote: PowerPoint: go to File> Page Setup> set the slides to be square Keynote: click on inspector, select the document icon, go to Slide Size and select Custom, and set to any square size

13. One More Thing on PowerPoint or Keynote: PowerPoint: to make the slides into pictures just go to File > Save as Pictures Keynote: to make the slides into pictures go to File > Send to... > iPhoto

14. Finishing Up Go to the “Share” menu and select “Export Podcast to Disk”

15. Select “Export” then choose a place to save the mp4 (iTunes) file and click “Save”.

16. To play the podcast in iTunes: drag the m4a file into the iTunes Library.

17. Jen La Certe jslacerte@yahoo.com