Student & Teacher Published Podcasts
The process of publishing a podcast is not difficult, nor is it cost prohibitive.  A podcast published on the Internet is a motivating reason to conduct research, write scripts, and work as a team to go “live” to illustrate mastery of content.  Explore some of the following student and educator published content to see what is possible! To stay on top of the best school produced podcasts subscribe to KiDCAST.
 
A School in the Coulee Podcast
   Longfellow Middle School La Crosse, Wisconsin
Podcast Central
   Maybry Middle School
San Marcos Bilingual/ESL iPod Project
    San Marcos, Texas
Room 208
   Wells, Me  3rd and 4th grade
Radio WillowWeb
    Willowdale Elementary in Omaha Nebraska
In Tune, In Texas
    Texas Music for history/geography
Haynes Elementary School
Long Elementary Podcasts
Our City Podcast
   A national project taking submissions
Patton Pioneer Elementary School Podcast
    Patton Elementary in Austin, Texas
Broward Schools News 2 Go!
   District Announcement Podcast
English as a Second Language
Education Index on iTunes
Education Conference Connections
I Teach Digital by Maria Henderson at Apple
Beyond4Walls Project Carrollton Farmers Branch
 
 
Student - Teacher Produced
  1. Authoring Your Own Podcast
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  3. An audio podcast for iTunes consist of a recorded audio file saved in MP3 or ACC format AND a text file called an RSS feed. The text file has links to all the episode audio files and the meta data for each (title, author, etc.)  The text file and all the audio can be uploaded to any HTTP server, including a .mac account.  The URL to the text file is what users actually subscribe to.
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  5. On a Macintosh with iLife 06, it is easy to capture and edit your audio in Garage Band with a USB Audio adapter and then send it to iWeb which produces a web blog page AND the required text file.
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  7. On Windows, you can capture and edit your audio file with Audacity  (free) or QuickTime Player Pro using a USB to audio adapter.  The required text file can be authored in a text editor, but the syntax is very critical, so you will need a tool such as Feed for All for this job.
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  11. Low Cost Audio Adapters
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  13. Logitech Headset 350
  14.     Use with Mac or Windows in combination with Garageband on the Mac or Audacity on Windows. Includes earphones and microphone.
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  19. While the headset records high quality audio for one speaker, if you need to record a larger audience, you can use a Griffin iMic USB audio adapter in combination with an external microphone on the Mac or Windows CPUs.
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