Nov 23 2007
Podcast 4
Well I’ve managed to put out another one. This podcast is about my investigations into GCast and InnerTOOb which I think both offer great opportunities for educators to get involved in podcasting.
GCast is a hosting site and you can add your mp3s there and simply add a link on your post. when you are redirected, there are lots of podcast subscription services you can use, including iTunes, just with the click of a button.
You can also have this added to your homepage in Google, Yahoo, MSN as well as subscribing by email.
Option 1: 
Option 2: add to your start page
Option 3: This means you really don’t need to go through all the trivia of setting up feeds using feedburner. However, the podcast does have some notes and tags when you upload it and my next step is to see if this gets transferred to the iTunes information for the podcast - if it does, then great.
The slight downside, as mentioned before, is that the GCast player does not embed into the blog, otherwise folks could access your podcasts directly from your Edublogs site. - still, small discomfort to have unlimited upload space and hopefully auto iTunes integration
I was also hoping to link CGast uploads with Innertoob but at the moment, I can’t seem to get innertoob to accept the GCast files - I’ll keep on working at this.
Here are the three versions
Number 1
and Number 2
and on Number 3
You choose which one seems best for you at the moment
For homework, I have set myself the challenge of using the visual podcast, VoiceThread
Take a look at the tutorial - done in voicethread -this service embeds beautifully
Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)
Mike
I have also encouraged some teachers to use PodcastPeople — which has a simple interface and ease of use (but you can’t yet embed it, although I guess they are working on that).
http://www.podcastpeople.com/
Some folks have been using it for my weekly feature: Day in a Sentence, in which teachers boil down their day or week into a single sentence.
Check it out and come on in.
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2007/11/21/your-dayweek-in-a-sentence-3/
Kevin
I love Voicethread and encourage anyone who wants to experiment a bit with it to venture over to one that a colleague and I created for the K12 Online Conference.
We asked folks to create a little story around a letter of the alphabet and use VoiceThread to share.
http://voicethread.com/#u1450.b6879.i50113
It’s still open and ready for more voices. (hint)
Kevin