1. Listen Up: Podcasting Part 1 Marion County Public Library- HQ

2. What is a Podcast? Podcast: i POD broad CAST “An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player.” ~www.techweb.com

3. Podcasting in Plain English CommonCraft– Lee Lefever – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c/

4. Popular Podcasting websites NPR (National Public Radio): http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_direc tory.php http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_direc tory.php President of US Barack Obama’s Podcast: http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/ Your favorite magazine!

5. What is RSS? RSS: R eally S imple S yndication A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. ~www.techweb.com

6. RSS feeds Subscribe to a Podcast==>RSS feeds RSS feed: summaries of web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. ~www.techweb.com

7. RSS viewer (reader) A stand-alone program or browser plug-in that aggregates and displays RSS feeds. ~ www.techweb.comwww.techweb.com Example: – www.feedburner.com : A part of Google. Allows for RSS feeds for podcasts www.feedburner.com

8. Publishing your podcast Free hosting websites – www.podbean.com : free podcast hosting and social networking site www.podbean.com – www.mypodcast.com : free podcast hosting communitywww.mypodcast.com – www.ourmedia.org : free website that not only allows podcast hosting but the ability to host videos and other media; targeted toward digital artists www.ourmedia.org

9. What you need: A computer A microphone A sound/audio recording program on your computer Speakers or a headset Podcasting online host Patience

10. The Audacity! Records sounds onto your computer Files can be saved as a music file (.wav or.mp3) Saved files can be uploaded to a website and played online

11. Wav or mp3?.wav file: The format for storing sound in files and can be played by nearly all windows applications that support sound. ~www.webopedia.com *we will be using.wav*.mp3 file: The name of the type of file for MPEG, audio layer 3. – Better known as a “music file” – shrinks the original sound data from a CD by a factor of 12 without sacrificing sound quality. – Because mp3 files are small, they can easily be transferred across the Internet.

12. Future of podcasting Video podcasting – Also known as a vidcast or vodcast – Combination of Podcasting + video – a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. Vodcast Readers: – Youtube: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com – Blip: www.blip.tvwww.blip.tv – Miro: www.getmiro.comwww.getmiro.com – Boxee: www.boxee.tvwww.boxee.tv

13. Podcasting resources Library: – Podcasting for Dummies by Morris, Tee (070.5797 MOR) – Podcasting: the do-it-yourself guide by Cochrane, Todd (006.7876 COC) Podcasting for Dummies website: http://www.dummies.com/Section/id-324058.html http://www.dummies.com/Section/id-324058.html

14. Special Thanks!!! Michelle – Librarian Paula- Librarian Troy- Public Service Assistant *Reference Superstars!!*

15. Next week Review Record a podcast ** Please bring in a plug-n-play microphone from home if you have one** Upload to podcasting host Publish on your blog/website

16. Listen Up: Podcasting Part 2 Marion County Public Library- HQ

17. Recap of last week Podcast RSS feeds Tools of the trade Audacity

18. What is a Podcast? Podcast: i POD broad CAST “An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player.” ~www.techweb.com

19. RSS feeds Subscribe to a Podcast RSS feeds RSS feed: summaries of web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. ~www.techweb.com

20. What you need: A computer A microphone A sound/audio recording program on your computer Speakers or a headset Podcasting online host Patience

21. The Audacity! Records sounds onto your computer Files can be saved as a music file (.wav or.mp3) Saved files can be uploaded to a website and played online

22. Listen up! Let’s podcast!