High School Computer Technology

What are podcasts?

• http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/

Tutorials on how to make podcasts with Apple Garageband

• http://www.devdaily.com/apple/mac/garage-band-create-podcast/

Tips on creating podcasts

• http://blog.frogbody.com/frogblog/2006/02/notes_to_self_a.html

Free Audio recording software (for Windows)

• http://www.goodkatshare.com/?page_id=26
• http://www.nbxsoft.com/sound-recorder.php
• http://www.audio-tool.net/audio_recorder_for_free.html

Non-Free Audio recording software (for Windows)

• Podcast Maker
• Music Maker (similar to Garageband)
• Music Studio (professional audio & music production)
• You will also find similar software by Sony (Acid = Music Maker, Sound Forge = Music Studio)

Example of a podcast, notice how the beginning (first 30 seconds) include information such as:

• The podcast title
• Episode number
• Date
• Place
• Author
• Web address (URL)
• Jingle (music/musical theme)

http://photography.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/photo-podcast-59.mp3

More examples of podcasts here:

• http://www.geekbrief.tv/ is a very good example of a brief, fresh and interesting approach on (video) podcast news

• http://www.stephenfry.com/media/ there is a special “Audio” section with podcasts that you may want to check, in addition to the other media