Podcasting 2 - Sharing your audio online

What people on this course have said:

"It's great to know how to publish now - the kids will be chuffed to make their work live; Make sure you have a knowledge of blogging beforehand - even just a basic knowledge - so that you can set up your own blog for podcasting"

Prerequisite knowledge:

• Have your own blog, or access to a school blog on the eduBuzz.org service (Blogging 1)
• Know how to create a basic podcast in Garageband or Audacity (Podcasting 1)

Step-by-step Video

You can view these steps in a quick video - click here to view on GoogleVideo (the quality isn't so good - we're working on an improvement this week)

One-off task

Activating the PodPress plugin

1. Log in to your blog. Wait for the Dashboard to appear
2. Click on the Plugins menu
3. Find the PodPress plugin in the list. Click Activate

Converting Garageband 'm4a' files to mp3s

A task for those using Garageband, but if you use Audacity you can jump to the next stage

See the video on how to convert from m4a to mp3.

Writing a blog post and uploading your audio file

1. Click on 'Write'.
2. Put in a title and some text to tell people about your podcast
3. Halfway down the page, in the Upload section, click 'Browse' next to Upload file.
4. Find the audio file or PDF you wish to podcast from your computer drive.
5. Click 'Open' or 'OK'
6. Give the audio a title and short description
7. Click Upload and wait.
8. When it is uploaded you will see a blue underlined link to your audio file.
9. Right click (or Ctrl click) this blue link. Select 'Copy link location' or 'Copy'.

Adding the audio file as a podcast

1. In the 'Podcasting Files' section, click 'Add Media File'
2. Click the cursor in the 'Location' field
3. Go to the 'Edit' menu and select 'Paste' - this will paste the location of the audio file you uploaded earlier and had copied in step 9, above.
4. Give a title to the podcast. This can be the same as before, or different.
5. Select the file type from the menu (MP3 for MP3 files, m4a for m4a files, pdf for PDFs, etc...)
6. Auto detect the size and duration of podcast.

Publishing the podcast

1. Click 'Publish' on the blog post.
2. View the site to check that the podcast and player have been successfully uploaded.