How to Upload an audio/video podcast file in blogger.com?

When I taught last evening in the podcasting class, I found the following procedure is important for my students to know.

To upload your audio/video file in blogger.com, please follow the following procedure:

1. Upload your MP3 and .mov file in hddweb.com. After successfully upload them in hddweb, you will have a URL for each file.
2. Log into your blogger.com account, click on 'New Post.'
3. In New Post window, click on the 'settings' tab.
3. In settings window, click on 'formatting' tab.
4. In formatting window, scroll down to 'Show Link Field' and change to 'Yes.' This allows a link field appears in your new posting window. The link field will be right under the title field.
5. Click on 'Posting' to go back to post your new blog.
6. In the 'posting' window, paste the URL of your mp3 or mov file generated from hddweb to the link field. This allows iTunes or other podcast aggregator to get your audio or video file. However, to allow your readers to click on a few words to download your audio or video file, you have to make another link in your posting contents. That is, in your posting contents, highlight a few words; click on 'insert link' icon; and then paste the same URL to the insert link window.

video podcast with .mov file

As I did not have my MP4 file linking from youtube to show successfully in iTunes when I subscribed my blog. I experimented to upload my .mov file in hddweb and found that it works perfectly in iTunes. It looks like a new era of video podcasting has arrived: podcasters do not necessarily convert their movie format into MP4 any more. Both MP4 and mov video files work for iTunes.

subscribe my blog to iTunes

Subscribing your blog web page in blogger.com to iTunes is easy; however, for the first time users, it can be a painful process. I would like to adopt Michael Geoghegan's moto on how to complete the process.

"Blogger + Feedburner = easy and free"

From the moto, one can tell that making your podcast available to iTunes or any information aggregator, you need to go to feedburner.com to complete the subscription process because blogger.com only generally ATOM feed, not RSS feed.

In feedburner.com, I established an account, followed the "Quick Start for Blogger" guidelines provided by feedburner.com, and successfully subscribed to iTunes.

However, only the audio file works, not the video.

playing a video in my blog from youtube

This is another try to have a video play in my blog from youtube.

This is the procedure that I have followed:

1. Go to my youtube account
2. Upload a MP4 file
3. At the bottom of the video info page, I copied the embed video script and pasted into my blog.





Podcast Video

uploading mp4 file in blogger.com

When I experienced an unsuccessful attempt to upload a MP 4 file in hddweb.com because the site does not support mp4 format, I got an idea on why not try youtube video. Therefore, I created an account in youtube video and upload a mp4 video there. Here is an example.
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podcast video.

uploading a MP3 file from hddweb to my blog

It took me some time to figure out how to upload MP3 and Mp4 files in hddweb.com in order to for use in my blog resided in blogger.com. In hddweb, the navigation design is not easy to navigate. To upload a file in hddweb, following is the procedure:

1. Log into hddweb.com
2. Click on 'file upload' link. The 'file upload' link is not very consistent here. Sometimes, it is at right hand side; and sometimes, it is at the mid-upper position.
3. In the 'file upload' page, you will see a big yello rectangular area with a green arrow on it. You have to open your computer folder with the file that you would like to upload. Then, with the two windows open at the same time, drag and drop the file to the hddweb file upload window.
4. After successfully upload your file, you will see your file in the big rectangular area. Go out the page, and come back to the page again. Then you will see the URL link for your file. Copy the URL.
5. Log into your blogger.com, and click on 'new post' to post a new blog. Then paste the URL to a link in your blog.

podcast audio

The audio link does not work any more because hddweb is no longer free. Because my account is free, that is why the link cannot work.

uploading audio/video files to blogger.com

In order for our podcasting audio and video files to work with iTunes; that is, one can go to iTunes, subscribe to your podcast site, and automatically receive your audio and video podcast materials from your web site once you upload new files, podcast developers has to code RSS feed before. However, podcasters do not have to know RSS feed code any more because there are some feed burning sites that will take care of the process. For example, Blackboard and blogger.com both can take care of the RSS feed coding for their users.

Blackboard requires a paid fee to obtain username and password to access, yet bogger.com is totally free. That is why I chose to create a blog page in blogger.com to test the process.

One inconvenient thing with blogger.com is that users have to upload his/her audio and/or video files somewhere else like http://www.hddweb.com/
and then link it back to your blog. You can even add instant play with playtagger from delicious or xsph play button.
http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

or you can have a more cool radio in it with radioblogclub.com

Podcasting: the New Educational Technology Tool

Podcasting is a new educational technology tool. Although it started as easrly as 2004, I got seriously involved in it until January 2007 when one of my colleagues introducing the tool in his class.

I see the great potential of the tool in education, and believe it can be a very effective tool in enhancing teaching and learning if an educator knows how to integrate the technology efficiently. Therefore, I decided to teach a a class with such technology. I chose the class EDUI6315, Current Technologies, because the title and theme of the courses match the topic of podcast quite well. To teach the course in Spring 2007, I created an audio podcasting file to introduce podcast technology first.