With podomatic you can create and upload podcasts easily. The following link lists reasons why podcast are good for the language classrooms and gives you teaching suggestions. You will have to create the podcast in Audacity. Save it as an MP3 and upload it to podomatic. On the right you can see a sample podcast. You students can also subscribe to your podcast. If you click on 'follow' it will direct you to podomatic.com where you can follow the podcast or even write something on the authors wall.
The following is a step-by-step guide on how to upload an mp3, create a podacast, and get the embed code in podomatic. 1. The first step is to upload you mp3 into podomatic. Simply go to the drop down menu > Publish > Upload. Next, drag and drop your mp3 file into the box > click start upload. If you go to 'media library' under 'publish' you can now see the mp3. (see picture 1) 2. Create the podcast. Go to publish > podcast > create. The first box (see picture 2) asks you to give the podcast a tile and a short description. 3. The next window will ask you to select an audio file. Go to 'select from your media library'. (picture 3) 4. Next you can upload a picture from you computer / USB stick. (picture 4). 5. At last you can include tags for you podcast. Click save & continue. (picture 5) 6. The last window is simple to review what you have selected for the podcast. Click 'save & continue' You podcast is now published. On the next page select 'embed a player in your website' (picture 6) You have two options of embeding the mp3 into your weebly. 1. Single-Track Player (picture 7). In this option you cannot see pictures. 2. Multi-Track Player(picture 8 & 9)
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How can your students subscribe to your podcast?
Click 'info' > click on 'name of podcast' (in this case B Gavin's Podcast). This will take you to the owners podcast website.
Next, go to subscribe (red arrow and box) on the owners podcast page
Last step, choose between ITunes or RSS fed. (For RSS see below)
Where to save it in RSS?
If you choose RSS bookmark you have some options of where to save it. Use the default 'Live Bookmarks" and click "Subscribe Now"
The next step will show you this. You can choose between Bookmarks Toolbar, Bookmarks Menu, or another folder. We are using Bookmarks Toolbar.
If you choose Bookmarks Menu the podcast will be shown like this. If you hover over the "B Gavin's Podcast" you can see all episodes from the podcast.