Podcasting

One seminar I attended was called 'Pondering Podcasting?' and was presented by - who else? - apple.

(Interjection: I think I want an apple. In my classroom. The built-in software seems amazing, and what's not on there, by golly, you can easily get for free on the web. I mean, stuff on the web is even almost as good as what apple is putting on their computers. But I just think it would be handy to have an apple. Any comments? I'm thinking CREATION: movies, podcasts, presentations, lessons, websites, images, music, you name it...)

This presenter showed us the basics for using the program 'GarageBand' that comes with apples now, for creating podcasts. Don't let the word 'podcast' throw you - you don't need an iPod to make one. It's basically just a multimedia creation that you can post to the web, use in class, send to others, or just use to process and build on existing information. You gotta love it.

I'm not going to take the time to describe how it all works - I'll just try to catalogue this memory along with a thousand others from this conference and pull it all back when we actually have this capability in... a few months (ok, i might be dreaming about the time frame... but just wait for more posts from me... this is going to happen!!)

Another thing you can use is 'Profcast' which... I don't totally understand, but may be worth checking out once we get more basic tools. Here's the website: http://www.profcast.com