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Blue Microphone’s Eyeball

November 6, 2009 on 10:54 am | In Screencasting, Podcasting, Blogging Help | No Comments

Here’s a review of a new small camera and mic for podcasting/screencasting.

Posting your Podcasts to WPMU to Syndicate through iTunes

June 16, 2009 on 7:19 pm | In Podcasting | No Comments

Using iTunes is fairly straightforward for setting up your students to subscribe to podcasts. You can make it even easier on them if you go through a few simple steps.

The easiest way to get up and running it to copy and paste the RSS link to your site in the subscribe field for iTunes. (Click on PODCASTS on the left -> Select Advanced from the menu at the top -> then click Subscribe to Podcast). This will automatically tell the iTunes client to download the content as it becomes available based upon the schedule interval that iTunes is configured to look for new Podcasts. The RSS feed for your blog is the direct URL with the word feed appended on the end (http://titania.stockton.edu/csis118000607s/feed/).

I however like to take it one step further and have the Podcast listed in the iTunes directory so your students can type in the name of the course and have the ability to select it in that manner as well as have the ability to put an iTunes button directly on your Blog so that students can click on that button and have it automatically subscribe them without performing the manual step described above. In order to accomplish this, you need to register the RSS feed using Feed Burner (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home), this will give you a URL that you can submit to the iTunes directory. FB allows you to set categories and customize how your Feed will appear in the Podcast directory. The PodPress plugin inside WP can also help here. You’ll receive an email from Apple once you have successfully submitted your Podcast and then you can setup a button on your Blog using this URL http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=212769848 (where ID is the number Apple sets up for your Podcast). There is an example of this on my Spring 2007 course blog - http://titania.stockton.edu/csis118000607s/

iTunes is cross platform and will run on both Windows and Macintosh machines. An iPod can be used to play the content remotely and will synch with iTunes but it is not required if they want to simply play the podcasts from their machines.