Podcasting Workshop 
Basically, podcasting is broadcasting. A podcast is often scripted ahead, especially when working with students and then usually recorded and converted into a sound file, often in the MP3 format. Podcasts are often listened to with an IPod, where the name podcasting originated, or some other tool or mp3 player. They can also be downloaded and listened to on a computer. Podcasts can be subscribed to using RSS (really simple syndication) feeds that push out the new podcast to your aggregator and then listened to at your convenience. They are often created using something as simple as a phone call or as complex as a laptop with special microphones and mixing software.
Pay Attention
7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting
What Everybody Ought to Know about Podcasting: Part ll
Podcasting - a 3 minute tutorial on what and how podcasting works
Sites to Create Podcasts
Garageband
Here's a quick podcast that I created with evoka:
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- What is a podcast
- Do I need an iPod
- How do I listen and subscribe to podcasts
- How to create a Gcast podcast
Voki - Animated Podcasting
Sites to create vocasts (videocasts)
- voicethread - is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
- edvoicethread - Ed.VoiceThread is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices. Watch an overview, visit our K-12 Pricing page, or download our K-12 brochure.
Aggregators
An aggregator collects your RSS feeds of blogs, podcasts and other resources that offer feeds. You can use aggregators for collecting updates to Del.icio.us accounts, wikis, news, forums, website updates and more. I usually use Bloglines to collect my information but there are others too.
iTunes
Find Podcasts
- Yahoo! Podcasts - allows playback right from the web
- iTunes Podcast Directory - requires iTunes
- ODEO - has nice playback and subscription options
- GarageBand Radio Network - hundreds of podcasts with great music!
- Podcast Alley
- Podcast.net
- NPR Podcast Directory
Online Photo sources
- Tag Galaxy - online photo source complete with web array!
- flickrstorm - Please use the attribution site by selecting advanced and then attribution. Give credit to those who took the picture!
- scanR - What does scanR do?
scanR is a service that helps you capture information contained in whiteboards, documents and business cards. scanR lets you use your mobile phone’s camera or digital camera to clean photos of whiteboards, documents and business cards, extract the printed information, and get a digital file in your email, contact manager, or fax. You can also upload snapshots of anything you want to save and share online.
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