Radio+and+Podcasting

=Radio and Podcasting=

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 * Sandpit Ideas S5 **


 * School Radio Station **

Subscription is necessary so the podcast comes to you. This means that you don’t have to upload a podcast each week. You will need to create an RSS feed for parents / community to subscribe to. It’s not a podcast unless you can subscribe to it.
 * Ideas for it to be effective: **

Important to produce something which people want to listen to. Significant and current events – to keep people listening. Students reading their work online would not attract a huge audience and risk losing momentum of the activity. Interview special guests ie; Chat to Scientists in Antarctica.

Podcasting is a unique genre – students need to learn how to create an effective piece of audio – they should listen to good podcasts and bad ones.

Its important than when work is published parents/community are alerted. Do not publish in to the abyss.- The vacuum of the web

Main software to use to record is Garageband for Mac. Audacity for PC. Podomatic is software which takes the recording from Audacity. Save to iTunes.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recommended hardware/ software podcasting: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audioboo – iPhone App - Upload the podcast to AudioBoo’s server, then retrieve from iTunes – very easy podcasting process. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iPadio software – You can call a number from the iPhone which would create a live stream. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Built-in microphones into the mac is fine. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Headsets work too. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MTA –Modern Teaching Aids –create good mics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orange Grove School – Pod Kids, Each year group does a podcast.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some Schools using this concept: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> MLC – radio station - They interview people. They broadcast daily.