Podcasting Essentials for Beginners

1. Your Students Are Pod People …but that’s alright John Napp Associate Professor & Engineering Librarian University of Toledo

2. Not THAT kind of Pod People

3. This kind… I love these library Podcasts! Photo by Matthew Welch

4. What Is A Podcast? • Originally, an audio file delivered to user using an RSS feed • Audio file that can be downloaded and stored on iPod-like device or computer • Portable • Relatively small files • Audio only

5. What Is A Podcast? • Video with sound file that can be downloaded and stored on MP3 player or computer • Portable • Visuals can be useful • Fewer users video-capable players • Larger files • Most players currently available feature small screens

6. What Works As A Podcast? • Tutorials • Self-guided tours • An accompaniment to a special exhibit

7. What You Need • Computer with sound card and/or video card • Digital still or video camera • Editing software • Sufficient storage capacity for large video files • Quiet space for recording audio • Good quality microphone

8. Microphones • Basic USB microphone • Logitech USB Desktop Microphone • Condenser Microphone • Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser Microphone • Better sound quality

9. Editing Software • Audio • Audacity • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. Available for Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux • Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library

11. Editing Software • Video • Windows Movie Maker • Comes with Windows XP & Vista • Zwei-Stein Video Editor • http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein • Free software for audio and video editing, It is available for Windows & Linux

12. iTunes • As of April 2007 Apple sold over 100 million iPods worldwide • Only MPEG-4,& H.264-encoded MPEG digital video files play on iPods • AIFF, WAV, or MP3 audio files play on iPods

13. John Napp Associate Professor & Engineering Librarian University of Toledo jnapp1960@yahoo.com

14. Thank You!