Using Podcasting for Teaching: Part 2: Creating and Syndicating Content/Donna Eyestone (@One Seminar)

This seminar provided insight into “how to” techniques for podcasting class lectures including planning a podcast and producing it. Donna uses Audacity to demonstrate the process of producing a podcast: recording, editing, compressing, and publishing your recording/podcast as an RSS feed. Donna actively demonstrates use of the Audacity program while teaching in the online environment as well as mapping the html information for the RSS feed to iTunes.

It was a very effective lesson to see her editing a work in Audacity and iTunes. She also demonstrated the use of Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) or “PodsafeAudio” (http://podsafeaudio.com/) to find recorded and/or graphic material to add to podcasts or vidcasts. Note: MAC users can use Garageband instead of Audacity which does a lot more of the work for you). .)

Hint: save your work as an “Audacity project” and then export it as a MP3. She uses Textedit to code the html.

Some of the demonstrations were hard to hear from her desktop and the application sharing kept bombing…so she had to keep reloading it. You can go to iTunes and click on Podcasts (Educational podcasts) or search under Donna Eyestone to find her recent podcasts.