This is the Presentation made by GlobalNet21 to the Migrants Resource Centre on Podcasting.

1. Podcast Workshop
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2. Podcast Workshop
GlobalNet21

3. Workshop Aims
 In this workshop we are going to look at how we
can use audio (podcasting) as a way of getting
stories, information and news to an interested
audience. We will not be able to go into depth in
a three-hour workshop, but we will be able to
give an overview of what podcasting is and how
to develop and distribute a podcast

4. What We Will look At
What we will look at is.
 What we need to produce a podcast
 An audio recorder
 An Editor
 A podcast host
 A Distribution Network

5. Further Training Material
Finally we will look at further training
material that students can use in their own
time and that can be found on the Media
Trust NewsNet site.
http://newsnet.mediatrust.org/

6. What Is Podcasting
Podcasting is a crisp way to describe the technology
used to push audio content from websites down to
consumers of that content, who typically listen to it
on their ipod or other audio player, or computer
that supports mp3 audio format.

7. Audio Broadcasts
Podcasting lets anybody with a microphone; a
computer and an Internet connection publish audio
broadcasts that can be listened to by people
anywhere in the world. Because the barriers to
entry are very low, podcasting is rapidly becoming a
popular way for people to share audio broadcasts.
Podcasts are free and can be automatically
downloaded to portable media players, so they can
be listened to whenever it’s convenient.

8. Delivery On Demand
Podcasting is delivering audio content to iPods and
other portable media players on demand, so that it
can be listened to at the user's convenience. The
main benefit of podcasting is that listeners can sync
content to their media player and take it with them
to listen whenever they want to. Because podcasts
are typically saved in MP3 format, they can also be
listened to on nearly any computer.

9. Anyone Can Do It
 Anyone can create a podcast. All over the
world, people are creating podcasts on subjects
ranging from movies, to technology, to music, to
politics and whatever else you can think of. This is
new original content made by passionate people
who want to share their creativity with the world.
 The cost to start podcasting is so low that anyone
can do it. Most podcasters are everyday people like
you and me. They could be talking to you driving in
their car, sitting in their living room or speaking at a
conference. You get to glimpse into their life and into
their interests.

10. Different types of Podcast
 Presentations
 News Events
 Interviews
 Recordings of Meetings
 Case Studies
 Digital Stories

11. Hybrid Podcast
 Matt Daw is Projects Manager at the international charity
PhotoVoice (www.photovoice.org), an organisation that
works in partnership with NGOs all around the world
designing and delivering participatory photography
projects with marginalised and vulnerable groups. These
projects provide communities who are often denied the
opportunity to speak out and be heard with the skills and
opportunity to participate directly in campaigning for
positive social change. People who are often the subject of
photojournalism take control over how they and their
community are represented, and become active agents in
tackling the issues that affect them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRAWmOy9X4

12. Digital Stories
 A digital story is a short, first person audio-
narrative created by combining recorded
voice, possibly images, and music or other
sounds.
 A Digital Story is a 2 to 3 minute audio visual
presentation of what is usually a personal story
 It is a sound track of the story-maker’s own voice
speaking their own words. Anyone who has a
desire to document life experience, ideas, or
feelings through the use of story and digital media
can tell a digital story.

13. Some Examples
 Mendy's Story - This is Mendy's entry to our Life
Round Here project -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykkTwJbHTQ
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 Speaking Out - Jo is now Traveller Liaison Officer
for Hertfordshire Council and she talks about her
life on the road finding agricultural work and her
hopes for the future in terms of combatting
prejudice -
http://www.ruralmedia.co.uk/remember/

14. Digital Stories From Older Learners
 Earlier in 2007 the Older & Bolder team set up two
workshops, one in Coventry and the other in
Birmingham, to record older people's learning
journeys. The mornings were used to encourage the
learners to talk about their experiences and how
their learning had affected their lives. The facilitators
then helped them to gather their thoughts, and any
documents and photographs they had bought
along, into a story. In the afternoon their stories
were recorded and the images loaded onto a
computer. These 10 personal stories demonstrate
how learning has changed these peoples' lives.

15. Two Personal Stories
 From Danny who said - The head teacher of my school
brought me in to the office and asked me to leave school
because of poor results and what he had heard from the
teachers. He said that I was wasting their time and mine
and that I would make nothing of my life - Well I have! In
2000 I attended Coventry College. I gained my first formal
qualification, qualified as an electrician, and in 2006 I set
up own company. I have proved my teachers and the head
teacher wrong - I have achieved my goals and more."
 To Margaret who said - At the age of 40 I learnt to read, a
new life began. I learnt to thread a needle and went on to
a hand embroidery course, followed by a C&G in
patchwork and quilting. I found the written work very
hard, but using the abc button on the computer and having
a great tutor helped."

16. Migrant Stories
 Migrant Stories is a unique action research
project, which is taking place in Herefordshire
throughout 2007. The purpose of the project is to
explore new ways of building understanding and
social cohesion between migrant and host
communities in the sparsely populated county of
Herefordshire. The Rural Media Company is
building upon its exemplary practice of enabling
rural communities to use low budget digital
media equipment to communicate creatively and
effectively with each other and to inform service
& policy development from the ‘bottom up'.

17. Creating Understanding
 Through an accessible, contemporary form of
storytelling, called digital stories, residents from
‘mainstream' and ethnic minority communities
are exploring barriers to social integration and
inclusion. Project participants are identifying
examples of where barriers have been overcome
and what lay behind such achievements. Through
creating a series of personal and poignant audio
visual accounts, project participants are in effect
be proposing their own ideas and solutions to
service providers and policy makers.

18. Telling A Story
 Let’s introduce ourselves again.
 Tell us who you are and name a person who has
influenced you (good or bad influence, someone
you have met or a famous person that you may
not have actually met).

19. An Exercise
 Right we are now going to do two exercises.
 First we are going to ask you to pair up with
another and each of you interview the other
about the person you have just told us about.
 Secondly we are going to interview you about
your experiences on a podcaster about why you
migrated, your experiences here – the difficulties
you encountered – or anything that you think is
important to say.

20. Turning Your Story Into A Podcast
So how do we turn a story into a Podcast?
 First we need a recorder
 Then we need to edit the recording
 Then we need to upload the podcast to the Web

21. Recording
 We can record our story in different ways – for
example,
 Digital Recorder
 On the Computer
 On a Mobile Telephone
 On a Telephone

22. Digital Recorder (Podcaster)
 A digital recorder or podcaster records an
interview on its own hard memory or a memory
card and then this can be uploaded to a computer
for editing.
 Digital Recorders can cost from anything from
about £20 to over £200.

23. On The Computer
 Computer audio recording technology has advanced
significantly in the last 10 years or so. Even a low-powered
computer can now record audio professionally with the
right hardware and software tools.
 You can use the Windows Sound Recorder to record your
own warning beeps or other sounds. You'll need a sound
card that supports sound input, a microphone and
speakers
 Read more: How to Record a Sound on a Windows
Computer | eHow.com
http://www.ehow.com/how_10021_record-sound-
windows.html#ixzz1pZOdkKad

24. Microphones
 It is possible to record audio for a digital story
using a PC microphone bought from a computer
store for less than £20. If you use a professional
microphone like a SHURE SM57 it will have a list
price of about £75 or so and your audio
recordings will be of considerably better quality.
There are many other alternatives available on
the market at all prices.

25. Mobile Telephone
 Mobile phones are often used to record through
their audio note facility and is sometimes used for
mobile activism. There is a guide on this called
 Mobile Audio Recording in the Field (And How to
Get a Clear Sound From the Streets)
 It’s well written and comprehensive. It’s also
timely, since the recording quality of some higher
end phones closely match what one gets from
lower end digital recorders.

26. Audio blogging
 Some new smart phones can record short
passages of audio and post them directly to the
internet for sharing. Applications such as
AudioBoo at http://audioboo.fm/ let you record
a couple of minutes of sound, and upload it
immediately to an online server, where other
users can subscribe to your username feed, or
simply cherry-pick recordings based on the tags
and titles given to them by their creators.

27. AudioBoo

28. Editing
 There is a wealth of freeware and open source
software available on the Internet which will do
the job very well. All such software does the same
job in very similar ways but the look and feel of
these programs can vary widely, and will need to
reflect your preferred way of working. It is worth
taking some time to download and try some of
the available programs before making your final
choice

29. Editing
 Audacity is a good open source program that
provides good quality recordings with an easy to use
interface. It can be found at
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 Wavepad is another good freeware application that
can be found at http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/
 It is even possible to make reasonable audio
recordings for a Digital Story using the Sound
Recorder application that comes pre-installed on all
Windows PCs. This section contains a quick guide to
making your recordings using the Sound Recorder
application.

30. Using Audacity

31. To the beginning Stop
Play Pause
Record To the end

32. Selection Tool: selects a segment of a track
Envelope Tool: allows quick adjustments of volume
Draw Tool: for very minute adjustments

33. Cut/Paste/Trim Zoom
Undo/Redo

36. Once you have logged in you’ll need to get to your “Dashboard”

37. Click on the "Publish" tab in the upper left-hand corner of your
dashboard. On this page you can add a Tag, a Title and add a
Post.

38. Go down to the “Podcasting” heading and either choose your file
by selecting something you have already uploaded from the drop
down menu or choose browse to locate files on your computer.

39. Once you have selected your media file click “publish” in the
bottom right of the page.

40. Go back up to the top of the page and click “view your site” next to
your user name.

41. Your podcast should now be on your page.

42. Adding Pictures To Your Podcast
 You can add pictures to a podcast by using
SlideShare which is at http://www.slideshare.net/
 This programme adds powerpoint and pdf files to
an online slide show.
 Once these have been uploaded to slideshare you
can an audio and edit the photos to the sound.

43. What is SlideShare?

44. Who is on SlideShare?
• Millions of business and technology
decision-makers visit to research
topics, e.g., marketing, IT, software
development, entrepreneurship, and social
media for business.
• 50% are managers, directors, or C-level
execs with significant purchasing
influence**
• 50,000 slideshows uploaded weekly
• Average time on site = 8 minutes
• Average of 20 slides viewed per visit

45. Explosive Growth!
Over 100% growth in the past year!

46. Adding Pictures To Your Podcast
 GlobalNet21 recently did a webinar on
Combatting Poverty in Uganda and the slide show
address is below.
 http://www.slideshare.net/Global_Net/combatin
g-poverty-famine-in-uganda
 It would have been possible to add commentary
to this slide show.

47. Adding Pictures To Your Podcast
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48. Adding Pictures To Your Podcast
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49. Adding Pictures To Your Podcast
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50. Distributing Your Work
 Once you have recorded and edited your work
then you will want people to hear and see it.
 This means you will need to get that message out
to the public through distribution networks.
 We have already looked at slideshare, audioboo
and podbean and they do that but they are not
enough. You will need more exposure.

51. Distributing Your Work
You can distribute your work on already existing
social networks such as
 Facebook
 Google +
 Linkedin
 YouTube

52. CitizenZone

53. PodZone

54. Transforming Education

55. Newsnet

56. Forums & Blogs

57. How To Guides

58. How To Guides

59. How To Guides

60. Citizen Journalism & Beacon Hubs -
Extending the Public Square

61. GlobalNet21
Thanks for Joining us at this workshop and we hope that
you have enjoyed it.
We hope to run a day surgery at the Migrants Resource Centre
so that we can go through with you individually how you can
Develop a Blog whether in text, audio or through
photojournalism.