Podcasting+Resources

** Objectives: **

 * Students learn the technical skills needed to record a high-quality podcast.
 * Students brainstorm, and design the theme and content of their Podcast with teacher guidance.
 * Students complete pre-production, production, and post-production of their Podcast.
 * Students ultimately learn project management skills, Podcasting technical skills, and actively use the Podcast as a medium for positive student expression.

Introduction
Briefly, here are the main steps in recording and broadcasting a podcast: 1. Record the audio using recording software such as [|Audacity] (free!) 2. Edit using the recording software (Audacity ) to cut out anything you don’t want. 3. Add music and sound effects, make volume fades, and so forth. See resources below. 4. Compress the audio to an MP3 file. 5. Upload your file to a class web site. When using sound effects and music in your podcasts, it is important to consider copyright and terms of use. Most [|podsafe] music is licensed under Creative Commons, which allows educators and others to use music as long as they give attribution.

Resources and Tutorials
Audacity Podcast Tutorial Videos

[|PodSafe Audio] - find music for your podcast

[|Creative Commons Mixter] - find music for your podcast