Category: podcasting
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Improvements in Garageband ’08 for podcast publishing
I created my most recent enhanced podcast and audio-only podcast using Garageband ’08, part of the iLife 2008 software package available from Apple. One my complaints about past versions of Garageband was the LACK of an “export to file” and “export to mp3” function. With those past versions, users had to “SEND TO iTUNES” via…
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Realize your dreams today, start virtually attending Stanford or MIT
When I was growing up and especially when I was in high school considering college options, the thought of attending a top-tier school like Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton certainly crossed my mind. Although I had been encouraged by several to pursue an engineering college track (because of the flexible preparation it would provide in equipping…
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My podcast web feed is FIXED!
Hallelujah. I am pleased to report after many hours of troubleshooting that, at last, my podcast feed is again functional after over a week of “brokenness.” In troubleshooting this problem, I am struck again by how all technology is “magic” at some level. Some people just have “more words” to describe what is happening, but…
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Podcast enclosure mystery: Help!
As you may be aware, my ISP upgraded the mySQL database hosting my main WordPress blog this past week. This led to a slowdown of blog performance, but things seem to have gotten a bit better. It’s been suggested that a complete reinstall of WordPress would likely be a good idea, and I was ready…
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Podcast179: Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom – A Conversation on EdTechTalk
This podcast is a recording of the “It’s Elementary” webcast hosted by Lisa Durff, Jose Rodriguez. Alice Mercer, Maria Knee on the EdTechTalk channel of WorldBridges on Monday, August 13, 2007. Our topic was podcasting in the elementary classroom. We explored reasons to podcast, shared positive experiences with classroom podcasting, discussed examples of ways podcasting…
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Use your school phone dialer to share podcasts with parents!
We just finished a great conversation over on EdTechTalk with the “It’s Elementary” webcasting team of Lisa Durff, Jose Rodriguez. Alice Mercer, Maria Knee, and others who joined via the chat room. Lots of great links and ideas were shared, but I’ll comment on two briefly. Alice’s classroom podcasts, published to her Edublogs website, include…
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Talking about podcasting with elementary students
I’m a guest this evening starting at 6 pm US Central time (2300 GMT) on the EdTechTalk channel of WorldBridges for episode #3 of “It’s Elementary!” The title of the show is, “Podcasting: Listen to Me!” Please join in our conversation! I’ll post a link to the recorded show after it’s available online. Technorati Tags:…
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An ID3 Tag Podcast Mystery
I noticed a strange thing today regarding the podcasts I’ve subscribed to and downloaded to my iPod, and I can’t explain it. The problem regards ID3 tags which are the labels for each podcast episode. Perhaps you’ll have some insights and suggestions! Here’s the situation. Rather than directly subscribe to podcasts in iTunes, for the…
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Options for podcast publishing and web feed creation
On May 28th I wrote about the importance of podcast publishers including details about each episode in their podcast file meta data and actual RSS feed, and not just on their website links to each show, in the post “The Joy of Juice Receiver and PodNova.” One of the great podcast feeds I mentioned as…