teach podcasting class again

I am very excited to be able to teach podcasting again beause I enjoy exploring the new concepts, ideas, and tools in this area. Technology has been advancing rapidly in the past few years. However, I found that the tools for podcasting has not been changed a lot. People still use Audacity and Garageband to create MP3 file, movieMaker or iMoive to create mp4 files, and iTunes for the media tranferring tool.

in the past two years, the biggest change in technology would be iphone. Currently more and more educators are looking into the issues on how to integrate the mobile device to enhance teaching and learning.

podcast presentation

Since I taught the poscasting class in Spring 2007, I have presented my teaching experiences with this emerging technology at ED-Media 2007 conference in Vancouver, Canada. At that presentation, I had a small group of audience around 15 people who were in some ways involved or interested with podcast. During the presentation, I applied an informal communication style for the presentation instead of standing in front of a projection screen and lecturing. I found the dynamic interactive presentation method turned out very effective because I received lots of nice responses from the audience and I also learned a lot from the audience, too.

I am going to share my teaching experience with podcasting this afternoon with my colleagues at CSU-EB on Back to the Bay conference. I am excited, too.

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.