Steps to creating a podcast:

Step 1: Decide on the purpose for your podcast

Teacher Ideas:

• Record classroom news events and announcements
  
• Record classroom rules.
• Record directions for homework assignments or projects.
• Record audio newsletters that include classroom information.
• Record a lesson or lecture and post on your web page for students who were absent or need review.
• Record spelling, pronunciation and definitions of grade level Word Wall words so students can practice these at home.
• Record science or social studies content words or concepts for students to refer to at home for practice.
• Explain the steps on how to solve a math problem.
• Record word problems of the day for students to solve at home for extra credit.
• Record directions for classroom projects and post on your web page as a reference for students and parents.
• Record directions for a listening center.
• Record multiplication facts or any other type of facts for a listening center or post on your web page for home practice
• Create audio books for your students
• Create a debate podcast where you post the prompts and the students record their responses and post.

Classroom and Student Ideas:

• Record oral presentations based on student research or classroom content.
  

• Record writing samples as a way to edit work through auditory feedback.

• Import music to their writing samples to set the tone or mood of the story.

• Post these stories to Podbean so the kids become real authors writing for a real purpose with an authentic audience. Have each student add a comment to their peers’ story.  (make sure students have permission to post online and they only use first names.)

• Narrate field trips or assign each student something to report on from their experience.

• Record an interview.
• Record a news broadcast with students reporting on different topics. 
  
• Record classroom debates and or discussions
  
• Record classroom or individual poems written by students. Another poem
  
• Record stories that you have written and add background music- becoming real authors.
• Record book reviews and post for others to read
• Record grammar tutorials and questions for review.
  
• Record writing samples as a way to edit work through auditory feedback.
• Record a play or reader's theater.
• Record songs that help learn content.
  
• Record subject content  to play back for reviewing purposes.
  
• Record information from research.
• Record directions on how to do something.
  
• Explain how to solve a math problem.
• Explain a scientific process or how you conducted your science fair project.
• Record a project from student work on what they have learned.
• Create a Photo Story 3 project from research and record student scripts.
• Older grade levels can record audio books for younger students. 
  
• Create a song from content and record as a class to reinforce instruction.
• Record choir songs to use for feedback and to post and share performances on-line.
• Record band practices to use for feedback and post final performances on school web pages.

• Butterfly Reserach Example. This is an embedded link for which Podbean provided the embed code.
   

You can use reader’s theater scripts, write your own scripts or use one of these templates.

Podcast Starter Script for 1 person

Podcast Script Skeleton

Podcast Training Script

Podcast Screen Script

Podcast Storyboard

Podcast Rubric

 Handouts used with permission from a workshop by Jason Buck (Podcasting on the Cheap)

Audacity  is free open source software that is very easy to use for teachers and any age student. Click on the link above for directions and how to download. You will need to download the Lame Encoder and set this up in Audacity to export recordings as MP3 files. Click here for tutorials.

Download the lame encoder (so you can export files as MP3.)

Audacity Training wiki- Use this link for directions on setting up Audacity, recording, adding music and exporting files as MP3's. It also includes ideas on how  to use Audacity to  improve literacy.

Click here for instructions on how to use Audacity to record and export as MP3 files.

Find Music to import behind or at the beginning and ending of your recording

-Music sets the tone or mood of the recording

Click on this example to listen:     http://audacity.pbworks.com/f/Reading+Mia+good.mp3 

Import Royalty Free Music into your Recordings 
 

After you import music into your recording- you are ready to export it as an MP3 file

How to Export as an MP3 fie and choose lame encoder (only have to set this the first  time.)

You can also create and upload videos to create Video Podcasts

Click here for directions on how to make a podcast in Pixie 2 of student work

Use Photo Story 3 to create video

Currently you can upload the following types of files:
.jpg, .gif, .mp3, .m4a, .ogg, mp4, .m4v, .mpg, .mov, .avi, .flv, .3g2, .3gp, .wmv, .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .zip

Now that you have your recorded MP3 file- what you are going to do with it? You can send the file an email attachment to others (if it’s under 10 MB.), upload it to a free storage space like Google Docs. But what if you want to add a url link to your web page, get the code to embed the player through gadgets on your website, wiki or blog? You will have to find a Podcast hosting site to get upload this file to get the code to do this. It will also storage your podcasts and allow people to subscribe to them.   (Note: Google Docs does provide a url to use when you upload files.)

We will use Podbean for this training session

Audio/ Video/ Blog

http://www.podbean.com

Tutorials

Podbean Features

Click here for  list of FAQ

Podbean.com is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting- a Free Podcast Hosting site

• Easy to publish your podcast in 3 steps. No tech to learn.
• Powerful promoting tools, iTunes Preview, Statistics.
• No limitation on storage
  

You can also search for Podcasts that you can view and subscribe to as well.

Podbean.com is also a Podcast Social Subscribing site:

• Collect all your favorite podcasts in one place.
• Check out what other people are subscribing to.
  
• Share with your friends and get recommendations.

Podbean is a Podcast Publishing and Social Subscribing site:

• Publish your own podcast is fast, easy and free.
• Discover popular podcasts and find what other people subscribe to.
• Collect your favorite podcasts in one place and access them from anywhere on the web.
• Share your taste in podcast with friends and get recommendation in return.

• How to upload a podcast to podbeam (You Tube video)
• Currently you can upload the following types of files:
  .jpg, .gif, .mp3, .m4a, .ogg, mp4, .m4v, .mpg, .mov, .avi, .flv, .3g2, .3gp, .wmv, .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .zip  

• Modify your podcast website- First login to you Podbean Dashboard
  Click on My Profile>My Dashboard link on the right
  Select Change your sites look or theme and choose a different theme template
• You can also click on the Podbean icon to return to the home page. Then you click on your username that will appear at the top right of the page.

• Example of an embedded player of a podcast episode

• How to add a link to my sidebar? 

• How to set author owner name in Podcast feed and itunes  

Podomatic

Podomatic is another podcasting host site.  You can also record your podcasts right within this site, save and upload them. You can use a webcam if you want to be in the podcast. You can then turn these into a podcast and get code to embed them into your webpage, blog or wiki. You can also download the podcast as an MP3 file on your computer.

You can also use Podamatic to upload podcasts you have already created and exported as MP3 files in Audacity.
This will enable you to convert this to a podcast where you will get a code to embed this into your web page, blog or wiki.

500 MB storage limitation

Training video by Teacher Training Videos

Audio Boo- Use this web recording and publishing  tool to record to create short (5 minute maximum) Podcasts that others can subscribe to by following your Audio Boo website.

Click for directions on how to use Audio Boo to Podcast.

You can also download the Audio Boo app for the iphone, Android, Blaclackberry and Windows 8 phone to record right on your smartphone, ipad & iPod touch.  This is the mobile view.  Students will just need to login to your classroom account if they want to upload their Boos to your classroom Podcast account. 

Click for directions on how to use Audio Boo to Podcast.