Podcast+Activity

 =Just Do It. Podcasting Activity=

and enter the information.
 * How to set up your PODOMATIC ACCOUNT: **One person** from your group will do this. Go to https://www.podomatic.com/path/signup
 * How to set up your GCAST ACCOUNT: **One person** from your group will do this. Go to http://www.gcast.com/user and enter the information.
 * ==Find out what your assigned podcast topic is: [|Podcast Topics] (Google Docs). PALMER STUDENTS: YOU ARE TO CREATE A PODCAST ABOUT ONE OF THESE TOPICS: ==


 * Safety/Responsibility issues that educators & students have to consider when podcasting.
 * Curricular ideas using podcasting in Library.
 * How do you see podcasting fitting into the overall 21st Century Skills framework?
 * Why do you think podcasting would engage and motivate students?**
 * Ways podcasting might be used by administrators


 * One partner should open the Podcast Storyboard/Worksheet in Microsoft Word to work on with your partner (either in Word itself, or import it into Google docs, if you prefer.)



> [|waldhorn33.mp3] <--RIGHT CLICK (OR CONTROL CLICK FOR MAC) ON THIS. > From [|CCmixter.org]
 * Other partner should save the music file below (waldhorn33.mp3) to their desktop (right click for pc, control click for mac) and then open Audacity on his/her laptop. (Keep this wiki open too).
 * Use this music file for your podcast.

media type="file" key="waldhorn33.mp3"

 * Create storyboard. Use this rubric as a general guide, courtesy of Joselyn Todd, MidLink Magazine.
 * Record podcast on Audacity.
 * Publish to Podomatic/GCast/Podcast People - whichever you were assigned.
 * If there is time, embed your podcast into this wiki on the 'our podcasts' page.

AUDACITY CHEAT SHEET:

 * Open Audacity
 * Project--->Import Audio--->browse your desktop and import the music file you saved.
 * Listen to the music file by pressing the play button. Make sure you press the stop button (yellow square) when you are done.
 * TRIM the music to 10-15 seconds by clicking on the select button (looks like an uppercase "I"). Click and drag to highlight the area that you wish to trim. Then press your delete button. [[image:podcastingwa:deleting.jpg width="340" height="320" align="left" caption="deleting.jpg"]]deleting.jpg


 * Now use the select button again to select and highlight the last 3-5 seconds of your music. Once it is highlighted, go to "Effect"--->Fade out.
 * Next step: You will record the INTRODUCTION. Place the Select tool at the end of the music track, then, click on the record button in Audacity (red) and begin talking into your mike. Notice that a new track opens under the music track.
 * After you record your introduction, rename the 2nd track 'introduction' by clicking on the little drop arrow.[[image:podcastingwa:naming.jpg width="275" height="228" align="left" caption="naming.jpg"]]


 * Repeat this procedure for the next segment of your podcast (podcaster 1-content) and then again for podcaster 2-content.
 * Last music segment: use the selection tool to highlight the first music track and then go to edit--->copy.
 * Next, put the selection tool at the end of the last track and then edit--->paste.

EXPORT YOUR FILE AS AN MP3:

 * Go to Edit--->Select--->All
 * Go to --->File--->Export as MP3
 * Export the file to your desktop.