Steps for creating and posting podcasts online – please comment if you found an easier way!
Step 1: Visit Audacity's website http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and download Audacity.
Step 2: Using Audacity, record at least three student responses to your questionnaire regarding their technology use. I recommend saving each student's file separately so it is easier to find the sound clips you need later.
Step 3: Using Audacity, record your assessment of the data you collected. Cut and paste student responses into your recording to support your findings.
Step 4: Visit LAME’s website http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ to download LAME MP3 encoder. You need this to export your saved Audacity file as an MP3.
Step 5: Export (save as) your file as MP3 format (you will need to “locate” the LAME.dll file for this – look under “programs” on your system hard drive)
Step 6: Post your MP3 to a site such as http://www.4shared.com/ You can create an account and upload the file immediately.
Step 7: Visit http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=80259&topic=12535 for instructions on how to embed your podcast URL to your blog (if you are using Blogger, which I highly recommend). NOTE: I did not use embedding - when I created my post, I used Blogger's option to make the title link to my podcast's web host.
Step 8: Test everything to make sure it works. Good luck!
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I am trying to follow your steps but hit a snag at step 7. How do you find the HTML code for the file? Better yet, how did you embed your audio file in the heading?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your comment! Step 7 looks scary, and actually did not work all that well for me either (which is why I wrote the "NOTE" there).
What I recommend (and what I did) is to create a new post. When you create a post, you input a title. Just under the box for the title is a box for a URL. Whatever URL is put in that box will be what people are redirected to when they click on your title. That is how I put a link to my podcast here.
I hope this helps!
Thanks for all of your hard work and help. Do we need to have a specific program on the computer to hear the audio file? I was able to post the URL on my blog much like you did and tried to listen to the file on my other computer but was unable.
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