Public speaking is the number one fear of adultsVocal Training should be part of your language work with students

Articulation can be practiced by using tongue twisters

Red Leather/Yellow Leather, Unique/New York, Topeka/Bodega, etc

Podcasting supports these State Standards:

LS-R1. Tell or retell a personal experience or creative story in a logical sequence

LS-R4. Respond to stories, poems and nonfiction

LS-R5. Participate in group discussions

LS-F1. Use effective vocabulary and logical organization to relate or summarize ideas, events and other information

LS-F3. Prepare and deliver information by generating topics; identifying the audience; and organizing ideas, facts or opinions for a variety of speaking purposes such as giving directions, relating personal experiences, telling a story or presenting a report

LS-E1. Prepare and deliver an organized speech and effectively convey the message through verbal communications with a specific audience

LS-E2. Prepare and deliver an oral report in a content area and effectively convey theinformation through verbal communications with a specific audience

I know you are probably anxious to press record and get your voice on the net. But a little planning will help you stay focused.

In the end you will produce a better podcast that will attract and keep more listeners. This will also make your job as a podcaster a lot easier.

•Choose your topic•Choose your format•Interview, rap, narrative, skit, etc.

•Will you have a host?•Same host or a rotation?

•How long will your podcast be?•3 minutes, 5 minutes, more?

•How often will you do this?•Daily, weekly, monthly?

•Will it be only talking or will you play music as well?

You will certainly change your mind as time goes on. You will add things and drop things. Eventually you will find what works well for your classroom.

• Intro Theme Song• Welcome Message• Announcements• Book Review or Reading a book• Lunch Menu• Poetry Corner• Current Events• About your city• Final Comments• Outro Theme Song

What segments will you include?

The Audacity Work Area Window

With all tools showing

       Skip to Start - moves the cursor to time 0. If you press Play at this point, you project will play from the beginning.

       Play - starts playing audio at the cursor position. If some audio is selected, only the selection is played.

       Loop - if you hold down the Shift key, the Play button changes to a Loop button, which lets you keep playing the selection over and over again.

       

Record - starts recording audio at the project sample rate (the sample rate in the lower-left corner of the window). The new track will begin at the current cursor position, so click the "Skip to Start" button first if you want the track to begin at time 0.

       Pause - temporarily stops playback or recording until you press pause again.

       Stop - stops recording or playing. You must do this before applying effects, saving or exporting.

        Skip to End - moves the cursor to the end of the last track.

The Audacity Control Buttons

Make sure your headset is connected and selected as the

input device

Click on the Record button and start talking into the microphone

    Selection tool - for selecting the range of audio you want to edit or listen to.

    Envelope tool - for changing the volume over time.

    Draw tool - for modifying individual samples.

    Zoom tool - for zooming in and out.

    Timeshift tool - for sliding tracks left or right.

   Multi tool - lets you access all of these tools at once depending on the location of the mouse and the keys you are holding down.

The Audacity Editing Tools

Usually you need to trim off “dead air” which you don’t want for your audio file

•Use the Select tool and drag across just the audio you need.•Go to Edit and choose Trim

You can save your files as an MP3 if you have the free LAME MP3 encoder software

downloaded

•Demo of recording•Demo of trimming audio•Demo of copy and paste•Demo of multiple tracks

Do not choose “Save Project” or “Save Project As”

use “Export” or “Export Selection”

Click here to find the Google Gadget to play your MP3 file on your Blogger Page

Once you have your file saved, you need to get it hosted somewhere on the internet.

E-mail the file to me and I will put it in with your school’s web files and then I will send you the URL so you can put it into the Google Gadget MP3 player

Paste the URL I give you here

Then copy this code

On your blog, start a new post and paste that code here

If you also want to add a picture, click here

The new post box will look like this now. The highlighted area is the code for the added graphic.

This is what your podcast will look like with a picture added

You can also use G-Cast…

Go to gcast.com to create your account

You could podcast

by phone or upload your MP3 audio file

Now you can add

your podcast to your blog

Embed the Gcast player in BloggerChoose Customize, go to Layout and Add a Page Element

When you see this window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Copy and paste the code below, but replace username with your Gcast username in all 3 places

<embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" width="145" src="http://www.gcast.com/go/gcastplayer?xmlurl=http://www.gcast.c

om/u/username/main.xml&autoplay=no&repeat=no&colorChoice=0" height="155" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br/><a href="http://www.gcast.com/htdb/popup/subscribe.html?u=http://www

.gcast.com/u/username/main.xml">Subscribe Free</a><br/><a href="http://www.gcast.com/htdb/popup/gethtml.html?u=http://www.g

cast.com/u/username/main.xml">Add to my Page</a>

Podcasts done via Google Gadget & Gcast

Click on the POSTS button to see a list of all the podcasts you've uploaded to Gcast

Now tell everyone about your podcast!