Listen Up: Podcasting Part 1

Marion County Public Library- HQ

What is a Podcast?

Podcast: iPOD broadCAST

“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

Podcasting in Plain English

CommonCraft– Lee Lefever

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c/

Popular Podcasting websites

NPR (National Public Radio): http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

President of US Barack Obama’s Podcast: http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/

Your favorite magazine!

What is RSS?

RSS: Really Simple Syndication

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

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

RSS viewer (reader)

A stand-alone program or browser plug-in that aggregates and displays RSS feeds.

~ www.techweb.com

Example:– www.feedburner.com : A part of Google. Allows

for RSS feeds for podcasts

Publishing your podcast

Free hosting websites– www.podbean.com : free podcast hosting and

social networking site– www.mypodcast.com : free podcast hosting

community – www.ourmedia.org : free website that not only

allows podcast hosting but the ability to host videos and other media; targeted toward digital artists

What you need:

A computer A microphone A sound/audio

recording program on your computer

Speakers or a headset Podcasting online host Patience

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

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.

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– Blip: www.blip.tv – Miro: www.getmiro.com– Boxee: www.boxee.tv

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

Special Thanks!!!

Michelle – Librarian

Paula- Librarian

Troy- Public Service Assistant

*Reference Superstars!!*

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

Listen Up: Podcasting Part 2

Marion County Public Library- HQ

Recap of last week

Podcast RSS feeds Tools of the trade Audacity

What is a Podcast?

Podcast: iPOD broadCAST

“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

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

What you need:

A computer A microphone A sound/audio

recording program on your computer

Speakers or a headset Podcasting online host Patience

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

Listen up!

Let’s podcast!