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GarageBand and Audacity are both free programs that allow you to create, record, edit, and compress audio podcasts. GarageBand comes free on the Mac and Audacity is a free software program that you can download for Windows. (Links to these programs found in the right column of this blog.)
Penn State’s Educational Technology Division has created some excellent, short video screencasts detailing how to use each program. These screencasts are available as podcasts on Penn State’s iTunes U page.
To visit this page and view these screencasts, click the link below (requires iTunes installed on your computer). Screencasts are about 3 minutes in length and are enough to get you up, running and creating podcasts in no time!
Take me to Podcasting at Penn State Tutorials
If you are using Audacity and can’t export your project to the MP3 format, you can export it as a WAV file. WAV files are extremely large. This is fine, but if you want to upload that file to iTunes or Blackboard, you will want it to be smaller and compressed, in either AAC (m4a) or MP3 format. Here’s how you can use iTunes to accomplish this:
Convert to AAC (m4a)
iTunes makes a duplicate copy of it in the new format. To check the file type (since you now have the original WAV file and an AAC file with the same name, right click your file and choose Get Info. There you will see the file type and be sure you choose the converted one). You can also add information to the track, as well as podcast artwork that you have designed. Drag converted the file out of iTunes to your desktop for easy uploading.
or Convert to MP3
Thanks Doug Seidler over at NESAD for pointing this out to me!
Audacity is a free program that allows you to record audio and turns that audio into a podcast, which can be shared on a blog, on Blackboard, on iTunes University, and can be played on computers and mp3 players such as iPods. You can download Audacity free; it works on both Macs and PCs.What tools are needed to use Audacity? A computer and a microphone. If you need a mic, contact CAS Academic Technology and we can get you one.
This short clip will take you through the basics of using Audacity to create an audio podcast.
Download Video: Posted by <f
The video below will take you through more advanced features of Audacity. Be sure to watch the Basics video first. Download Video: Posted by sheehy at TeacherTube.com.
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