Making the recording was the easy part. Just did what the text suggested and went to Audacity. Still, nowadays, there are no instructions. Just clicked around until I found record. When I was finished recording I followed the directions to export as MP3. That saved my recording to my flash drive. Now what to do with the file?
Blogger does not support MP3 files so I had to go to a third party host. The thing is, everywhere you visit you have to join up to get in to see the site, and frankly I lost track of how many sitesI visited. I need user friendly so I started with the text's suggestion of OurMedia.org. I got there and couldn't even figure out how to start. Finally, I googled free podcast hosting. I came up with 4shared.com. This sight was something I could handle, and I was able to link to this blog. The link sends you to the sight and then you play the podcast from there. To hear my podcast, you can click here . Okay, so that was basic. But, I wanted the picture of the little machine that you clicked on play and you could see the little line go across the screen.
The text suggested searching "enclosures" under the help section. I found out that it was possible to embed html codes. At this point this project became a collaborative effort. It was, "Okay, family, get on line and start lookin." Finally we hit on Podcastmachine.com. Previewing the site showed you could make your own player. I signed up, yet again.
Podcastmachine.com was more straight forward than some of the other stuff. After I made my player and saved it, I went to blogger layout and added a gadget for html java script third party code. I copied the html code and pasted it into blogger. And voila! There was my player on the side of the blog. But, now it was too big. I went back into the html code in the gadget and it was easy to see where to adjust the width and height.
I'm really happy with how this turned out. I know I drove everyone nuts, including myself. Now it's off to the NLC for residence week and really make myself crazy.
Check out my podcast player on the right side of the page for information on who I am in my other life.
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Great post and GREAT podcast! If I hadn't read the post, I wouldn't have believed that this was your first attempt. Your post is actually going to be very helpful as I try to tackle this assignment. I just spent the afternoon playing with Audacity. I don't know how productive it was. Most of my time was spent cracking up at my recording attempts.
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