Podcasting: The basics

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Podcasting The basics

• What is it?
• Why would I want to do that?
• How do I do that?
• Created by Brett Oppegaard
• for Washington State University - Vancouver, DTC
  - 338
• March 26, 2008

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What is podcasting?

• When broadcasting met the digital world,
  podcasting -- as in iPod-casting -- was born
  (2004).Key components
• Internet distribution
• R.S.S.
• Transferable to a portable device

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How do I do that? The podcatchers

• Start by listening to some examples. Podcatchers
  are like GoogleReader, or other R.S.S. Feeds,
  only they focus on podcasts. Here are a few to
  try
• iTunes
• Juice
• Media Fly
• Nimiq
• FeedDemonpodcatcher comparison

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What types of programs might I create for this
class?

• News Traditional reporting of some breaking
  story related to your topic, with interviews of
  sources, authoritative reporter voice, etc.
• Opinion Similar in structure to news, yet with
  a clear and stated bias
• Storytelling Like those NPR pieces, with
  various sounds and voices and a developed story
• You are there Go to an event and tell about it,
  with ambient sounds and interviews

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What types of programs might I create for this
class?

• Guide You take the listener on a tour of a
  specific place related to your topic
• Around the table Get together a group of
  experts on your topic and get them talking about
  interesting things
• Journal Let the listener get inside your head
  as you deal with a particular issue or story
  related to your topic
• Review A critical analysis complemented by
  ambient and secondary sounds, audio clips.

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Continue your exploration of Audacity

• Experiment with your audio editor