My class did their first readers theater this week, and after recording the audio story we wanted to add it to our blog in order to share it with the world and receive feedback to improve ourselves.See our Classroom Blog Podcast.
However most blog servers do not allow you to upload and embed an audio directly from your computer. The file (this is the same process for video) needs to be hosted on a web server and then linked to the blog. There are many sites that cater for audio and podcasts, we however used Podomatic. You do need to check that the school does not block the audio server you choose, if they do you can usually get it unblocked by placing a request through your ICT lead teacher.
Another thing to remember is that your file needs to be a mp3 or mp4 file before uploading to an audio server. This usually involves exporting it from GarageBand / Audacity or other recording software. One thing I learnt was when recording with GarageBand, change the metronome setting to get rid of the clicky sound that we got in the background.
Once you have your audio recording saved on a site like Podomatic you are offer html code to either link to the server site or code to embed the recording into your blog, as we have done here.
For further guidance you should read Bloggers help file "How do I post audio/music to my blog?"
Other podcasting server sites are:
Kid-Cast
Gcast
Hi there
ReplyDeleteYou have lots of useful advise here and you seem to have come to a very successful solution for publishing your audio.
I am guessing you have access to a Mac machine because you mention GB, so I am wondering why you need all the steps in between the recording and uploading to Blogger though? If you record in the podcast track of GB and save file to disk, the m4a uploads into blogger (which I see you use) via the movie upload icon.
We do this successfully on our KPE blog.
http://kpetv.blogspot.com
Otherwise we could use Quicktime > File >New Audio recording and save as .mov and again it uploads directly into blogger.
I am always looking for shortcuts though so it probably isn't the best way for what you need :)
Good luck
Dorothy
Thank you for that comment, I am still learning GarageBand so did not know about that option. I'll try it out this week.
ReplyDeleteI think we might have to add some notes on our site about using GarageBand with Reader's Theater as well. Keep up the blog!
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Mike