Friday, February 8, 2008

Media Center Final Thoughts

Some final thoughts and ruminations by Maribea Berry

Advertising and Promoting Your Podcast

You can use iTunes to publish your blog, or there are many other podcast aggregators including Master New Media A suggested tutorial for iTunes is Podblaze To get onto iTunes itself click here

Media Center Podcasting Quiz

How much do you know about podcasting? Take the podcast quiz and test yourknowledge.
  1. Question: What file format is best for distributing podcasts over the web?
  2. Question: What are some of the common methods of podcasting?
  3. Question: What is the best way to promote your podcast?
  4. Question: What is the best way to create ongoing podcasts so that theyhave the same feeling each time you listen?
  5. Question: Can you make money from your podcast?
  6. Question: What is the easiest way to set up a podcast on the web, and whatspecific web tools would you use?
  7. Question: What are good sources for audio and sound effects for your podcast?
  8. Question: Ideally, what sequence would you follow to set up an ongoing series of podcasts, ie, brainstorm, creative, storyboard, script, etc.
  9. Question: What is the easiest way to set up a podcast on the web, and what specific web tools would you use?
  10. Question: What is the easiest way to learn podcasting, in a classroom setting or by yourself in your bedroom?


Download pdf quiz here

Podcasting Tutorial and Quiz

A good Audacity Tutorial is here

Take a quiz here

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Podcasting Reference Points

A great listening is the post by NPR, pulling back the curtian check this out about how NPR creates their audio, and why it sounds so good.

Another good Podcasters link is
Podcasting Tools, check through their links, very informative.

Assignment #2 for Media Center

In this assignment, we will create a blog on Blogger.com, create and post 3 audio files. We will also sign up for a feedburner account, and a youtube account

http://www.fortune.org/mediacenter/mediacenterblogassignemnt.pdf


In order to reduce size of your recordings, it is nice to record in stereo to get the 'surround' effect, however, stereo files also equal larger .mp3 files. Tricks to reduce stereo to mono in Audacity can be found here at http://www.richardcravy.com/

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

This is James, Maribea & Carter

These are sample podcasts from the Media Center Podcasting Class from James, Maribea & Carter

This is James

This is Maribea

This is Carter

Witisisms and Trivia from http://www.freevlog.org/

Check out freevlog for great tutorial information about Video Logging, RSS feeds and other stuff

Monday, February 4, 2008