Podcasting your Class

for audio and video podcasting capture, creation, and production. (Back to blog)

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Mac

Garageband
Record, edit, and produce audio and enhanced podcasts
Price: Free

SnapzProX
Screencasting: Record anything on your screen as a movie
Price: $69

Keynote
Create and narrate slide presentations and export
Price: $79 (part of iWork)

Profcast
Record and publish your live presentation slides
Price: $29 (educational pricing)

iMovie
Record, import, edit and publish movies
Price: Free

Screenflow
Screencasting: Record and later edit anything on your screen.
Price: $85 (education)

QuickTime Pro
Record, import, edit and compress audio and video
Price: $29

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Windows

Audacity
Record, edit and produce audio podcasts
Price: Free

Camtasia Studio
Screencasting - Record anything on your screen as a movie
Price: $299 (retail)

Snapkast
Record and podcast your Powerpoint presentations
Price: $79

QuickTime Pro
Record, import, edit and compress audio and video
Price: $29

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Server Solutions

Podcast Producer
End-to-end solution for encoding, publishing,
and distributing high-quality podcasts

Leopard Server
Includes Podcast Producer and other tools

Episode Podcast
Plug-in extend Podcast Producer for
more formats: WMV, Real, Flash, etc.

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Xserve
Hardware for server solutions

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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

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Do you need to capture what is happening on your computer screen for your podcast? There are a few great tools that allow you to record your screen and your voice simultaneously, great for training videos and tutorials.

Screen Recording on a Mac:

Ambrosia Software’s SnapzProX 2 Movie Capture ($69) for Mac is a lightweight program which runs in the background and can be called up at any time to record what is going on on your screen, a particular window, or your whole desktop. All movies are recorded in QuickTime format (and can be compressed later using QuickTime Pro). There is a 15 day free demo for download on their website.

Vara Software’s Screenflow for Mac ($85 for education) is a brand new tool for screen recording that offers everything Snapz Pro does, but also has more features enabling you to edit your screencasts, zoom in on certain parts of the screen, highlight areas, dim areas, and add transitions, among other things. There is a demo available on their website.

Screen Recording on a PC:

Tech Smith’s Camtasia Studio ($299) for the PC is a powerful program that allows you to record any part of your screen and (and your voice) and to edit your recordings after you complete them. Camtasia exports to multiple file formats, including iPod video, QuickTime, flash, RealMedia and others. There is a 30 day free demo available on their website.

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Apple’s QuickTime Pro is $29 and allows to you to record audio and video, and also enables you to compress and export these and other media files to various web-ready and iPod-ready formats, and works on Macs or PCs (internal or external microphone and/or internal or external webcam needed for capture). QuickTime Player is free and required to upgrade to the Pro version. The Player comes on every Mac, and on a PC when you download iTunes. If for some reason you don’t have the Player on your computer, you can download it free.

Apple has some tutorials for QuickTime Pro posted on their website:

Mac:
Creating an audio podcast with Quicktime Pro
Creating a Video podcast with Quicktime Pro

PC:
Creating an audio podcast with Quicktime Pro
Creating a Video podcast with Quicktime Pro

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This short 90 second clip covers how to use the Griffin iTalk to record audio on your iPod, which you can later convert to podcast ready formats. Use it to capture lectures, record interviews, discussions, forums, guest speakers, etc.

…This next 3 minute video covers what to do with the voice memo files that the iTalk puts into iTunes:

Easily Convert Voice Memos & WAV files to Podcast-ready Formats in iTunes

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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)

• Drag the file to iTunes.
• While the file is highlighted click the Advanced menu at the top.
• Choose Convert Selection to AAC (for MP3 conversion see below)

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

• Follow the directions above using the Advanced menu, but prior to doing so, go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing
• There, change the Import Using: AAC to Import Using: MP3 Encoder
• Now when you highlight the track and choose Advanced on the top menu, you will see Convert Selection to MP3 rather than AAC.

Thanks Doug Seidler over at NESAD for pointing this out to me!

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An enhanced podcast includes visuals. While a visual is not always necessary, if you do have a powerpoint lecture there are several ways to capture your lecture as you give it. This will create a video podcast of your voice with your slides. (You can also do this outside of class in a rehearsed manner as well).

Profcast and Keynote work on the Mac, and SnapKast and Camtasia work well on a PC. What equipment do you need to record a slide presentation? Just a microphone, computer, and your slides! If you need help, software, or tools, contact CAS Academic Technology.

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• Download: Audacity
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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.

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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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