This document provides guidance on creating podcasts for educational use in K-12 classrooms. It outlines the necessary equipment, including a microphone, digital recorder or computer, audio editing software, and royalty-free music. It then describes the step-by-step process for recording, editing, saving, and publishing a podcast, including mounting it on a website and registering the podcast feed. Finally, it offers examples of how podcasts can be used in classrooms, such as recording literature, book reviews, lectures, student work, and field trip recaps.

1. Shedding light on podcastingin the classroom Kathy Schrock

2. Creating a podcast

3. Items you need for podcasting • Microphone • Digital recorder or computer • Audio-editing software • Royalty-free music or sounds

4. Steps in creating a podcast • Record your podcast • Move the audio file into an audio editor • Add the introduction and endings • Save file as an MP3 file • Mount on a Web site • Create your podcast newsfeed (blog site) • Register your podcast (feedburner.com) • Add your podcast to directories

5. Audio editor (PC and Mac) • Audacity • http://audacity.sourceforge.net

6. RSS Feed in Blogger

7. RSS Feed in Blogger

8. Publicize with Feed Burner

9. Ways to use podcasting in the K-12 classroom

10. Some ideas… • Record public domain literature • Library book reviews • Enhance the classroom lecture • Original student compositions and essays • Target a special population to podcast • Author interviews • Field trip recaps • Field trip tour audio • Peer-podcasting with another school

11. Reference: Shedding Light on Podcasting in the Classroom. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://kathyschrock.net/podcasting/podcasting.pdf