Creating a simple podcast using Podium
The following example shows how you can use Podium to
create a simple podcast to get you started.
To help you create your podcast, we recommend you always
keep the following 5
P’s in mind:
Preparation
Fill in the podcast details
Enter
a podcast title, such as: ‘Weather bulletin,’ and
a podcast author, such as: ‘class 4.’ Add
an image (optional), and a podcast description: ‘Your
regular weather update.’
Fill in the episode details
Enter an episode title: ‘Monday 25th June’,
an episode author: for example, ‘Jill and David,’ and
an episode description (optional): ‘The weather for
today, Monday 25th June.’
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Performance
Record the audio
Click on the record button 
on
the sound toolbar. You
will see a three, two, one countdown and then the ‘stop’ and ‘pause’ buttons
will appear in the centre of this workspace. When
this appears, it means you are recording.
Speak into a microphone and click on the ‘stop’ button
when you have finished. A waveform will appear.
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Production
Play back the recording
Click on the ‘Play’ button on the sound toolbar. You
can play back from:
- The beginning
- From a point in the audio by clicking on the waveform
and placing the cue point. Clicking on the play
button will play from this point to the end of the audio
- A section of the recording – select the part
of the audio you want to play by clicking at the beginning
of the part of the waveform and dragging to the right
until you are happy with the selection.
NB. Clicking on the ‘De-select’ button
will remove any selection and place the ‘cue point’ at
the beginning of the audio.
If you are happy with the podcast, you can publish immediately. If
you want, you can edit it or, if you are not happy with
it, you can re-record by selecting the entire waveform
and clicking on record again.
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Publish
Publishing your podcast means to load it to a server so
that it can be accessed by other people.
You can
either publish locally (on your own network server) or
globally (on an FTP server).
When the podcast has all the requisite parts it needs,
the ‘Publish’ button will
become red.
Click on the ‘Publish’ button:
- If you have set security settings to ‘off’,
the podcast will begin uploading and the ‘Publish’ button
will change colour and become the same colour as the
other buttons on completion.
- If you have set security settings to ‘on’,
a window will pop up and you can choose to either publish
now by entering the password that you have set or publish
later by clicking the ‘Review’ button.
- When
you publish, the ‘Publish’ button changes
colour and becomes the same colour as the other buttons
on completion.
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Promote
Promote the podcast
Now your podcast is published, you can tell everyone where
it is.
You only need to do this once per podcast
since people who subscribe will automatically receive each
of the new episodes as you publish them.
- Click on the ‘Promote’ button
. The
promote window will open and you can either click on
the email button where your default email browser will
open showing a message that has been automatically created
with all of the details in it, or you can click on the ‘Copy’ button. This
will copy the address of your podcast to your clipboard
from where you can paste it into any other document (e.g.
a Word document or an HTML page).
When a user subscribes to the podcast they should drag
the link or copy and paste it into their podcast aggregator. There
are many different aggregators including Doppler and iTunes.
How do I to listen to a podcast?
So there you have it! Preparation, Performance,
Production, Publish and Promote; five easy steps that allow
you to create your very own podcast using Podium.
To find out more about some of the other things you can
do with Podium, including its fantastic scripting tool,
register
your interest and further information will follow.
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