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Introduction to

podcasting

2, March 2010
Gabriel Peterson, PhD
North Carolina Central University
School of Library and Information Sciences

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What is podcasting?
Podcasting is the practice of recording
content and distributing it online.
Podcasting requires no special equipment
or proprietary software.
Podcasting works well with existing
technologies for online course content
delivery such as Blackboard.

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Materials required:
Computer with:
Microphone
Many laptops come with a mic, which may be
adequate for your needs. I tend to
wander a bit while lecturing, so a headset or
lapel mic is preferred.
(I use the BlueAnt59i bluetooth headset for my
cell phone. Price: approx $60 from
Amazon.com)

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Materials required:

The ability to receive signals from your


microphone if your mic is not natively
supported
(I use a Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter
so my laptop can receive the signals from my
bluetooth headset. Approx. $25 from
Amazon.com)

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Materials required:

Enough storage space for audio files


(A semester's worth of raw recordings
gets big fast)
Install recording software: Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Works in any OS, is free, small and
powerful.

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Podcast Content
Lecture material
Powerpoints, documents, assignments.

TIP: A note about copyright


Thanks to the TEACH act, you may legally
distribute course material online provided that
the material is for classroom use and that
distribution is limited to the class, (for example,
by putting it in the password-protected
Blackboard folders).
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Getting ready:

Confirm functionality of mic & sound levels:


Adjust audio settings so that the microphone is
your audio input.
(Settings->Control Panel->Sound and Audio
Devices->Audio->Sound Recording)
Start Audacity
Do a quick sound check: Record a few seconds
of sound and play it back.

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Showtime
Give the lecture
You can run audacity in the background while lecturing
and giving power point slides and such.
Start Audacity
Start a new file (Ctl+N)
Start recording (The round red button)
Start lecturing
Begin with an introductory sentence “This is the
podcast for LSIS4000 Chapter 2. It references the
power point slides found in Blackboard under the
filename LSIS4000Ch2.ppt”
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Tips
Number your slides and refer to them by
number in the lecture
Repeat any question asked from the live
audience before answering it
Avoid making reference to the date or
holidays if possible

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Tips
Periodically stop the recording and save the file, then
start a new one. (I try to break between 45 min and
an hour or at the end of a chapter, whichever comes
first.)
There are several reasons for this:
Breaking the lecture recording into clips makes the files
smaller. This makes it makes it much faster to
convert and upload the files.
Smaller files are more convenient for the listener to
transfer and easier for them to navigate
If the system crashes, you will only lose the last bit of
the lecture, rather than the whole thing.
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When you finish a
segment
Stop recording (The button with the yellow
square)
Save the file as an audacity project file
(.aup)
File->Save As
Label the file: (PodcastingIntroPt1.aup)
Start a new segment. (Ctl+N)

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Editing
TIP: If you need to edit, make a copy of
the file and edit that, rather than
editing (and possibly damaging) the
original.
If you need to edit a segment, highlight
the area you want to remove and
press delete.

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Editing

Audacity is a powerful audio editing and
manipulation tool.

Today I have shown you how to switch it
on and off; the vast majority of its
functionality has not been touched upon
in this presentation.

For more information about editing:


http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/
tutorial_ed_beginner2.html

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Exporting
When you are done editing your segment, export
it.
You need to save as MP3 because Audacity
(.aup) files only work in Audacity and are very
large. Conversely, MP3 is both universal and
highly compressed.
In Audacity: File->Export as MP3
label the file appropriately:
(PodcastingIntroPt1.mp3)

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Upload to server
When the file has saved as an MP3:
Give it a listen in a couple of random spots
to make sure everything is OK.
Upload the file to the server where your
course documents are hosted.
(I upload to Blackboard Course Documents
like a document and put the podcast files
with the lecture slides.)

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Resources
For more information, there are numerous
web resources.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/
Creating_a_simple_voice_and_music_Po
dcast_with_Audacity

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There are even books available on this subject.

• Here are two that are available • Podcasting Bible


online from the University • by Steve Mack and Mitch
library:
Ratcliffe
• John Wiley & Sons © 2007
• Podcasting for Dummies by Tee (596 pages)
Morris and Evo Terra • ISBN:9780470043523
• John Wiley & Sons © 2006 (362
pages) • From an in-depth look at the
• ISBN:9780471748984 basics, to high-level recording
techniques, to creating a
• Get the inside scoop on revenue-producing business,
listening to, producing, and this comprehensive guide
distributing podcasts with this
helpful guide. The book points shows you how to create and
you toward the best hardware market successful podcasts
and software for creating one, from your desktop, for your
and makes it easy to turn your company, or in the studio
computer into a recording suite,
and more.

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Gabriel Peterson
NCCU, SLIS
02/03/2010

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