Podcasting

Podcasting is audio that is recorded and then delivered via an RSS feed. Podcasting is similar to the radio but better. The concept is the same but with podcasting, listeners can pick the time and the place they choose to listen. There are also so many podcasts out there from educational ones to cooking ones. You can learn about all sorts of things from a podcast. I like to use http://podcast.com/ to view a variety of podcasts for anything you could imagine. There is also http://www.podcastalley.com/ which is a great site for podcasts as well. The possibilities are endless when it comes to using a podcast. As a future teacher I will use podcasts in my classroom by setting up tutorials that my students can use as resources when they are at home doing their homework or studying for a test. This will also let parents get an idea of what is going on in their students classroom on a regular basis. I think it is very important for parents to be involved in their students education and podcasting can help make that possible. 

Creating my podcast was more difficult than the blog because I had never made a podcast before. I used Garage Band which is an application for a Macintosh computer used to make podcasts and other audio projects. I was familiar with Garage Band but had never created anything before so it took some time and some playing around with the features before I was confident enough to make my first podcast. It was frustrating trying to get the sections of audio in the right places at the right time and it was also frustrating to get the backing tracks just right. It was fun once I got the hang of it because I chose my own tracks for the backing audio and got to play around with all the features. I feel better about podcasts now after I have completed one. I learned a lot doing this assignment and I hope to learn even more as I use podcasts in the future. 

Publishing my podcast onto my blog was more difficult than creating the podcast. I was not sure of what hosting site to use and it seemed that everything I was trying was not working and it was very frustrating but I figured it out. I think I was actually making it more difficult than I needed to because all I really needed to do was post the URL of my podcast but I wanted the actual audio to play directly from my blog but all of the embedded files to do that were in the wrong format not supported by my system. I got over that and just posted the URL to make it easy on myself! I enjoyed creating my podcast and I am glad to share it with all of you. Enjoy!