Podcasting 101 in School Center

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READY TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL? Build your own podcast to showcase your or your students work or provide students with content review or assessment.

1 READY TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL? Build your own podcast to showcase your or your students work or provide students with content review or assessment. View a training video which gives step-by-step instructions on how to use ilife 06 and a.mac account on your Mac to make your own podcast at: Or Use the provided instructions from Melanie Dusci, CTIP, Henley M.S. & Brownsville E.S. to create a podcast using School Center on your Mac or PC if you do not have ilife 06 or a.mac account: Podcasting 101 in School Center Things to know before starting: 1) Download itunes at if you haven t already. 2) You will need an itunes account to post your Podcast to itunes. This requires you to sign up for an account by clicking Sign In in the Account area in the upper right-hand corner of the itunes screen: You will need to provide a credit card #, but you are not charged unless you purchase from itunes. 3) Mac users must use Safari to submit Podcasts, so be sure when you are doing this part, you quit out of Firefox and log in using Safari. PC users can use Internet Explorer.

4) Step 1: Begin by logging on to your home page in School Center.

Log on to School Center to access your home page using Safari (Mac Users) or Internet Explorer (PC Users) as the

Step 2: Click on Edit Page button in menu bar Step 3: Choose Add a Page and add a Document Manager Page Choose

2 4) Step 1: Begin by logging on to your home page in School Center. If you do not have one set up, contact the Web Page Coordinator of your school to do so before proceeding. Log on to School Center to access your home page using Safari (Mac Users) or Internet Explorer (PC Users) as the browser. Step 2: Click on Edit Page button in menu bar Step 3: Choose Add a Page and add a Document Manager Page Choose Document Manager from the drop down menu and click on Continue adding this page Step 4: On the pop up window, rename your page if you want and select Enable subscribe and any other options you wish. Rename Page here Click in these boxes to enable Podcast and subscribing

Categories first if you want to categorize and then Add New Document Step 6: The next window you will

3 Step 5: Your Document Manager/Podcast page will display like the following image. To add audio files, you do the same as you would if you were adding documents, choose to add Categories first if you want to categorize and then Add New Document Step 6: The next window you will click to browse for your audio file and upload you can then rename or select the category for it to belong to. When finished click Done

Step 7: **VERY IMPORTANT: In order to choose Podcast Settings and submit Podcast to itunes, you must be in Safari (Mac users) or Internet Explorer (PC users).

done and you want to submit your podcast to itunes Owner Name This will show in itunes, so be careful how to list Owner Email: This is not revealed, just use your school email Category: Select

4 Step 7: **VERY IMPORTANT: In order to choose Podcast Settings and submit Podcast to itunes, you must be in Safari (Mac users) or Internet Explorer (PC users). Click on the Podcast Setting button Step 8: The next screen, choose to name your podcast and fill in the blanks Name your podcast This is how you will search in itunes Click on this link when done and you want to submit your podcast to itunes Owner Name This will show in itunes, so be careful how to list Owner This is not revealed, just use your school Category: Select Education and subcategory K-12 Step 9: This is where you submit your Podcast to itunes. You must copy the URL that is given on #2, then click on the link to submit the podcast... Copy this URL Click this link to be taken to the itunes site

Step 10: After clicking the link to go to the itunes site you will see the page listed below. You will need to past the URL that you copied from the previous page, into the space provided.

5 Step 10: After clicking the link to go to the itunes site you will see the page listed below. You will need to past the URL that you copied from the previous page, into the space provided. Then click Continue. You will be prompted to enter in your itunes account information You have successfully submitted your podcast Within hours you will receive an from itunes regarding your Podcast and its URL you will need to copy that URL link and paste it into the Podcast Settings menu in School Center Log back into your webpage, click on your Podcast page, go to edit, click on the Podcast Settings button and paste in the link itunes supplies you with. Click Done

Instructions for downloading paid media from BSO.org and playing paid media in the BSO Media Center Revised as of 12/23/2011

Instructions for downloading paid media from BSO.org and playing paid media in the BSO Media Center Revised as of 12/23/2011 DOWNLOADING MEDIA 1. Purchase Media Once you have completed your purchase, you