Educational Podcasts
http://homepage.mac.com/deyestone

A series of short podcasts about how to podcast for educators. These captioned movies can help you get started with podcasting and have been written specifically for educators. Part of the Modeling Effective Education Technology MEET grant through the California Community Colleges and CCC Confer 2006. Podcasting for Educators is authored by Donna Eyestone.

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Welcome to the Podcasting for Educators Channel
Posted: September 2006

Welcome to the Podcasting for Educators Channel.

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Understanding Podcasting
Posted: September 2006

What is podcasting and what makes audio a podcast.

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Using a Content Aggregator
Posted: September 2006

Using iTunes to manage your podcasts.

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Searching and Subscribing to Podcasts
Posted: June 2006

Using iTunes Music Store Podcasts to find already created content that you can use in your class.

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The Files Involved in Podcasting
Posted: September 2006

Transcript - A quick overview of what files you'll need to create and why they are important.

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Recording Audio Episodes with Audacity
Posted: September 2006

Overview of how to use Audacity, a free audio editor for Mac and PC.

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Using Other Audio Editing Applications
Posted: September 2006

QuickTime Pro for Windows and Mac, and GarageBand for Mac are discussed.

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Editing your Audio and Adding Music
Posted: September 2006

Edit out mistakes, add a music track, fade the volume and other basic edits in Audacity

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Compressing your Audio
Posted: September 2006

How to convert your audio to MP3 and why this matters for podcasting.

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Making your Podcast Channel
Posted: September 2006

Create an RSS feed with an XML document.

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Uploading your Files to the Internet
Posted: September 2006

Using an FTP application to transfer your files to a web server.

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Publishing your Podcast through iTunes
Posted: September 2006

Check out your feed through iTunes. How to register with iTunes and/or provide password security for your podcasts.

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Writing an Outline for your Channel
Posted: September 2006

Here's a good place to start if you're thinking about creating your own channel.

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Storyboarding an Episode
Posted: September 2006

Some things to consider when planning individual podcast episodes.

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Keeping Your Channel Up-to-date
Posted: September 2006

Making one episode is exciting, but how will you produce consistent episodes?

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Addressing Captioning
Posted: September 2006

You should make your media accessible - and here are some ideas on how to do so.

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Creating Enhanced Podcasts
Posted: September 2006

If you teach with PowerPoint slides, you'll really want to check this out.

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Using iTunes U
Posted: September 2006

You can organize everyone in your entire campus to have a unified presence in iTunes.

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Playing these Movies on your iPod
Posted: January 2007

You can play these movies on your computer as is. But to play them on your video-capable iPod, you'll need to convert them to .m4v files.

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Linking to Your Podcast Channel
Posted: January 2007

You can link to your podcast from a web page, your course management system, or link right to a specific MP3 file.

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Adding Details to an Episode
Posted: January 2007

Without too much work, you can add a single image to your MP3 using the Album Artwork field, or even place your transcript in the Lyrics field embedded right in the metadata of your MP3 file.

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Captioning with QuickTime Pro
Posted: January 2007

It's not as intuitive as it might be, but this movie shows how you can use QuickTime Pro to create a text track for synchronous captions.