Podcasting

Key Vocabulary
 * Podcast
 * script
 * effects
 * Mixer
 * Track
 * episode
 * slander

Finding your voice in podcasting. When listening to the radio on you way to school this morning what did the hosts sound like? Were they cheery, serious, funny, boring or just like a old friend? Believe it or not this is planned based on the audience and type of production they are going for. Finding your voice in production is essential and will make or break your episode. You need to find out what your audience wants and expects then try to modify your episode to meet that. On your podcasting plan sheet identify your audience and fill out the expectations.

In order to have a successful podcast it is important to have a topic in mind that you are desiring to cover in this case it will be the Industrial Revolution. From here you need to come up with something that interests you. There is a multitude of podcast types out there ranging from Within each podcast type any voice and audience can be reached (you just need to be creative!) The real key is finding an approach that you are interested and comfortable with. This will make putting on the episode easier and more enjoyable. Remember regardless of the topic or type of podcast that you create it will be unique because it it you and your podcast. As long as you stay confident and enjoy what you are producing the episode that you create will be great!
 * music
 * technology
 * comedy
 * religion and spirituality
 * business
 * society and culture
 * education
 * sports and recreation
 * TV and Film
 * News and Politics
 * health
 * arts
 * travel
 * food and drink
 * environment
 * games and hobbies
 * kids and families
 * science and medicine
 * government and organizations


 * speak clearly
 * speak with confidence
 * develop a personality
 * play with the rhythm
 * tangents can be fun
 * be careful to not use them too often!

Planning your podcast

 * Introduction: first impressions matter! The opening is the first time listeners will hear your voice and decide if they want to continue listenting. You need to grab their attention!
 * Key elements
 * shows name
 * name(s) of the host
 * location of podcast
 * catchphrase welcoming listeners ( you can combine all the elements in an easy greeting)
 * topic your episode covers
 * brief overview of topics to be covered
 * The body of what you are going to talk about
 * interviews
 * jokes
 * stories
 * key points
 * facts to be covered
 * question and answer
 * ask an expert
 * Outros (conclusion) This is your final word, closing statement and grand finale! Make it count!
 * This is the last thing that listeners will hear so you need to make sure that it is memorable and relates to what you have been covering in your episode
 * This can be simple but it could also be elaborate and pull the listener in to want more.
 * **Credits**
 * This will be a simple list of resources, special thanks, web sites, music or any other source you happened to use.

Music in your podcast
Copyright laws, since you are producing original works you are not able to use music that you own and insert it into your podcast (the governement does not like it). There are however sites that we will use to find music. It is music that artists put out specifically for podcasting these are [|www.mevio.com/music] [|www.garageband.com] and [|www.magnatune.com] [] (this site you will need to site audible credit for the music, this can be done at the end as a commercial if you like) Placing and balancing music in your podcast will be important. You do not want the music or other sounds to overpower the voice. This will take some practice.

Inserting Audio (to see the symbols visit [] > > Another legal issue is slander if you are going to bash someone in a podcast you need to make sure that what you are saying has proof and evidence to back it up! All opinions and findings need to have proof and evidence to back them up, if you can't just keep your mouth shut. (Hey this is something we should use in our daily lives don't you think?) Students are able to create a show that expresses research created by them. This could be through a story, composed music, talk show with historical guest appearances or talk show like discussion. There are many more possibilities and all of them depend on the creativity of the students with the content. Podcasts are easy to create. All they take is a microphone, a computer, sound recording software (audacity *free*) and a place to publish (wikispaces). There are many different ways to publish these but for class purposes wikispaces will suffice. When creating a podcast series make sure that you have an overall title Like "All About Ketcham's History Class" and include episode titles "Episode 1: Welcome to the Class, an introduction." Pretty easy to get started, so have fun! To evaluate and assess student podcasting a rubric is best suited. You are able to use the generic rubric that I have provided or create a new one that better suits the needs of your class. The purpose of this is to engage learners in a process that they are already interested in for the purpose of understanding the process of historical interpretation.
 * 1) To insert audio uou will need to use the selection tool (looks like a capital I) and select the location of your timeline placing an edit line there.
 * 2) Click the timeshift tool that looks like <-> (a line with an arrow on either side). This pulls the selected audio and places it elsewhere along timeline.
 * 3) click and drag your audio to the edit line you created in step one
 * 4) Choose "File" "Import" Audio" then browse for music. Once you find it click open to import it.
 * 5) Click the envelope tool button to adjust the volume settings for the audio you just inserted (click on the title of the audio on left side)
 * 1) Plug a microphone into your computer
 * 2) Install an audio recorder for Windows (a free software for audio recorder ** Audacity ** ).
 * 3) Create an audio file by making a recording (you can talk, sing or record music) and saving it to your computer.
 * 4) set the input
 * 5) click record
 * 6) click stop when done
 * 7) From here upload the file to wikispaces through the file upload option when editing a page. Make sure to create a space for yourself and post under the heading like the teacher example.

**Editing**
This is where things get tricky. When editing you will work primarily with the selection tool ( it looks like a large capital I). When you have highlighted the area use the backspace key. Now make sure that you **DO NOT USE** the **TRIMM** command, it will delete everything that is **NOT** highlighted! When you have deleted a clip listen to the episode again, if it does not sound good undo the changes by choosing "edit-undo" or ctrl+z and try again.

Publishing
For this projects purpose we are going to publish our podcasts to this wiki page.
 * 1) Save your final audio file to your H:/ drive on the computer
 * 2) Open up "Publish your Podcast" page on this wiki
 * 3) Click the edit button in the right hand corner of the information page
 * 4) write a description and give your episode a name
 * 5) In the edit pane click on the "File" button
 * 6) In the popup window click on "upload file"
 * 7) Browse and select file
 * 8) click the downloaded file to insert it

(Morris, Tomasi and Terra, 2008)