DanToday: Get Smart about MP3s. Basic Podcasting Gear. How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Podcasting. I'm often asked by visitors to this site how to start an Internet radio station. But, often they are over-thinking it. Offering audio on the Internet can be done in many ways and it just keeps getting easier. Podcasts Come in Various Flavors Podcasts are easy to do whether you DIY with an audio editor and your own website or use a third-party to create it and host it.
A Podcast allows you to create audio which can be accessed on-demand. But, now, just placing an audio file online at your website and informing users to "click to listen" to your "Podcast on-demand" is sufficient in many cases, especially if you know ahead of time that you are doing a limited amount of podcasts. Thanks to broadband, the moment your audio file begins playing uninterrupted through the end-users player, you have achieved the same effect as Internet Radio. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck - it's a duck.
How Complicated Do You Want This? Engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology. Podcasting is an Internet technology that educators can use to provide students with course materials they can use anytime, any place, even when they are not connected to a computer. You can use podcasting to deliver course content in audio, video, and/or graphic formats.
The term podcast implies the ability to deliver programs like other broadcast media but it has some significant differences and advantages: Students can download podcasted programs view wherever they go, whenever they like. New episodes of a podcast are automatically downloaded when students “subscribe”. Instructors can limit the audience to students in their course. For educational purposes, a podcast could be: course audio files, e.g. bird calls or heart sounds mini lessons with audio and visuals, eg., glossaries with sound and images, slides with voice-over explanations audio or video case studies containing interview with experts or other speakers multimedia presentations created by students.