Create Your Own Podcasts (for Free)

The following is the actual script which I created and executed for the April issue of my Better Learning Communities blog post about on-boarding people to company social networks.  

There were more details than I imagined and found that I had to script it to do it all at the correct time to create the podcast.   The only tools I needed were the Accessories recorder, a pair of headphones and a musical selection from Freepd.com:

1.       Wear headphones keeping the input (receiver) unplugged so that the music can be heard and recorded. 2.      Open the blog post in a window 3.      Open the music player in another window below the blog post. 4.      Set the computer volume to 100% 5.      Set the music volume to 25 and prep it to start playing at 13 seconds.   Make sure that it is set for continuous play. 6.      Open the recorder and click on record. 7.      Click play on the music player 8.     Read the Blog Title and author’s name Better Learning Communities by Sharon Lina Pearce 9.      In this case, I quote last month’s post.  Add text I’ll begin by quoting last month’s post,” READ QUOTE” 10.  Lower music volume to 13. 11.   Continue with this month’s blog post This month, I continue to develop the concept with, READ BLOG TITLE” 12.  Read blog trying to speak slowly and pause.  (I had to practice about 4 times before trying to record.) 13.  Pause and increase music volune to 25 again 14.  Conclude the podcast with your contact data Read and comment at www.betterlearningcommunities.com Follow me on Twitter @sharonlinapearc (read “at sharonlinap-e-a-r-c”) This blog post’s short URL is tiny.cc/MeetingRoom (read “tiny dot cc slash meetingroom) 15.   Publish that blog! To upload an audio file upload requires a paid extension which I did not realize when I researched this… Looking for a friendly place to publish my podcast and, then, link it up to my blog. One set back is that most places do not accept the wma format that the computer creates Google for an online converter and find media.io and convert my file to mp3 Podbean was the simpliest, most user-friendly podcast site I could find.  I used the beginning of the article for the description and added the footer from my blog post and included a note about where I found my public domain background music.                                                               i.      Created logo which appears to the left of the podcast screen capture                                                            ii.      Created logo/image especially to link from my blog to the podcast

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Tiny Link:   http://tiny.cc/FreePod