30 Minute Podcasts
A quick overview of Podcasts and how to create them
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Podcasting in Plain English
By the Commoncraft Show:  http://www.commoncraft.com 
Our Goals
Explore a filter-friendly solution
Make a quick podcast
Upload to a Hosting location
Embed into a website
Bonus:  Create an RSS Feed
Oh, and keep production time to 30 mins...
Hosting and Posting
Need a place to host the mp3 files.  

Podcast hosting can cost $$ or have undesirable content.

Generic file hosting might be the best solution
Sign up for Divshare 
Where to post?
You need some sort of web presence
Personal website
Blog
Wiki

It needs to support <embed> code.
Recording A Podcast
Finding Music
http://www.garageband.com
http://ccmixter.org/
http://www.magnatune.com/
Download Audacity & LAME
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://tinyurl.com/4t7vc
Export to MP3
Good tutorial: 

Editing with Audacity
http://tinyurl.com/25rk7r
Upload to the Web
Get the Embed Code by clicking
on Share under your file.  Then 
Right-click & Copy
Click Upload & select your MP3
Placing in Your Webpage
...and it plays!
What about subscriptions?
Rss Feeds?
iTunes?
iPod?
For that, you need your podcast to have an RSS Feed.  With Blogger or Wordpress (Edublogs too), your posts already do, but your music does not.
What's RSS?
A way of tracking changes on your blog.
iTunes and others read RSS to pull down your podcasts
In Blogger
Go to Settings, Formatting, and choose Yes to Show Link Fields
Paste a direct link from Divshare (this requires a Paid Divshare account, at only $1 a month
Click on the RSS icon in your address bar
then choose Atom.   Right-click on the next page's
address and Copy
Send that feed address to your audience!
They can then use it to subscribe in programs like iTunes
In Wordpress
Just paste a direct link to your MP3 in the body of your post.
Wordpress automatically creates an RSS feed for your media.

Then go to the feed page by clicking on the RSS icon, and copy the address.   Just like you do with Blogger
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Subscribing?
in iTunes