Podcasting

Eugene G. Kowch, U of Calgary, our presenter, has begun by pointing out the waving palms right outside the window. Eugene is Canadian and is enjoying the palms as much as I am. He promises to e-mail us his presentation, of course. He will be using only free software. My kind of guy.

Podcasting is, unlike everything else we have seen here, one way. Making content into a Podcast does not make it magic. Poorly designed instruction on an iPod is poorly designed instruction that you can take with you to the beach.

Eugene is bioperating-systemal but prefers Windows. However, he says, "we can do it on PCs, but on a Mac it is 100 times easier." We knew that. In fact, Eugene has done his presentation on Windows, and is having a multitude of problems because of that. He has just hit the "video only plays on the primary display" Windows curse.

Eugene, despite being a Windows guy, says for Podcasting, go Mac, go iPod. Asked directly, iPod vs iZune says iPod. The iPod Touch is demoed. Ooooooo.

How to do it on a PC: Audacity is recommended as audio editor. OurMedia is recommended as server. iTunes as Podcast locator. On PCs you also need Spinexpress2 and LAME for various file conversions. Many steps are displayed. "On a Mac, you just press one button."

Go to iTunes and subscribe to the feed on OurMedia. That tells iTunes where the feed is. iTunes --> Advanced --> Subscribe to Podcast. Paste in OurMedia URL. Click OK. Oh, Man! I have got to do this! For audio, mp3, for video mp4. Otherwise, same system.

Warning, OurMedia.org is full of "adult" content. NOT for grade schoolers.

University sites serving podcasts. Yale, Penn State, etc. Student click one button. Every time the student connects an iPod to their computer, they automatically get the latest lecture downloaded. Apple runs it through uTunes.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ekowch/AECT Podcasting101.html