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8 step guide to podcast marketing
6/28/2008
Podcasting leader Christopher Penn has published a short PDF guide, 8 step guide to podcast marketing, that seeks to help you jump start how you’re marketing your own podcast. This is a very short PDF and covers topics that include whether your podcast is worthy of buzz, is easily found and how you’re measuring your success. The … Continue reading »
Publishing a Podcast with ExpressionEngine
6/24/2008
If you’re a user of the wonderful ExpressionEngine CMS (this site has been running on it for more than 2 years) and want to easily and efficiently publish a podcast with it, I just released a new screencast you might be interested in.
The latest episode of the ExpressionEngine Screencasts covers … Continue reading »
Voice Over Training
5/10/2008
One of the obvious aspects of podcasting is using your voice. And using it properly. If you’re looking for some more information about how to improve your voice technique in your podcast, I’d suggest checking out the Voice Over Experts Podcast from Voices.com.
Hardware Recommendations
- Kustom KM4 Mic with Cable
- Behringer XM8500 Microphone
- Shure SM58 Mic
- MXL MXL V63MBP Computer Desktop Recording Kit
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E - ABC of Podcasting
E if for EDUCATION
Education and podcasting?
At PodcasterCon 2006, David Warlick (speaker, author, educator) ran a great session on Podcasting as a Teaching/Learning Strategy. The room was full of educators, who expressed their concern, interest and enthusiasm for podcasting as an educational tool.
As with any new technology or teaching tool (weblogs are a good example), their has to be a solid case made to the administrators about what kind of academic benefit this new technology would have. Unlike the geeks, teachers can’t just use new technology in the classroom simply because it’s cool and neat. This is probably the most important lesson of the session, I think. However, David also demonstrated some current uses of podcasts, which include Room 208 by Bob Sprankle and by The Beacon School, which did a media assignment. Both of these are linked in the session notes (see below).
Please read the session notes here and some commentary and notes by Steve Dembro here. All of this together, including the links below, should give you an excellent feel for where podcasting currently stand in education and how you, the educator, can integrate it into your classroom.
For more information about the use of podcasting in education, here are some helpful links:
Education Podcast Network
David Warlick
E-learning Centre (UK)
Stanford on iTunes - faculty lectures and more
This is part of the series ABC of Podcasting from Podcast Free America.
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