Friday 4 th July 2008 Podcasting is Really Simple

In today’s episode... What is a podcast? How to get a podcast How to create a podcast

What is a podcast? A method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio and increasingly video files.

How to get a podcast onto your computer Decide what you want to find Go to a website that contains an RSS feed Use a catalogue and aggregator such as iTunes to search, browse and subscribe to your chosen podcast Use an appropriate browser or an aggregator (e.g. iTunes or Doppler) to subscribe to the podcast Download episodes to an mp3 player if you want

Using e-Folio

I want to create a podcast Decide on the subject and plan the episode Choose appropriate software and equipment Publish your RSS feed to a website Publicise your podcast Prepare Perform Produce Publish Promote

The Primary Framework

Take any digitally recorded audio outcomes from pupils’ work and share with a wider audience via the Internet For example, as part of the Y6 journalistic writing unit pupils may produce a radio news bulletin and augment it with interviews, adverts and other types of text appropriate to the medium of radio.

Podium (audio mp3) Softease Revelation Sight & Sound or similar (video mp4) Logotron Workflow on a PC Author content and create mediaPublish to internet

Garageband (audio) iLife iMovie (video) iLife Workflow on a Mac Author content and create mediaPublish to internet