bobCast #23 The Podcast Expo Podcast

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I. Introduction - What is the Podcast Expo?
The Podcast Brothers
The Business of Podcasting

II. Trip Out To California - Ontarino Convention Center.

III. First Day Of The Expo
A. Leo Laporte -The TWIT Network
B. Ron Moore -BattleStar Galaticia
C. Workshops -Podcasts 101
1. Producing For The Ear: Using the Craft of Audio to Capture and Keep the Listener�s Attention -Stacy Bond (NPR) Audiolux
2. Planning your Podcast -Avoiding the Ready FIRE Aim Syndrome - David Jackson: School of Podcasting
3. How to Create and Optimize Your RSS Feed for Maximum Effectivness -Rick Klau -Feedburner What is feedburner?
4. Planning and Building a Podcast Production Studio- Paul Figgiani -The Point Podcast -Putting together the equipment and why.
D. Reception -Meeting Dawn and Drew

IV Second Day of the Expo
A. Andrew Michael Baron -Rocketboom.com -video podcast
B. Workshops -Podcast 101
1. Before You Hit �Record� -Planning Content for Podcasting -Tee Morris -Podcasting For Dummies
2. The Sheer Audacity: How to Get More, in Less Time, from the free Audacity Digital Audio Editing Software -Jerry Franklin -The Good Dog Show Podcast - Recording and post production techniques for creating podcasts.
3. Doug Kaye -IT Conversations -Offered a workshop on audio file types.
4 .Killer InterviewingTactics: How To Get The Most From Your Guests - Gayl Murphy - InterviewTactics.com - Interview Coach for many Authors, Celebrities (Russell Crowe), Politicians (Rudy Giuliani) - Put the shoe on the other foot and talked about how to do a dynamic interview.

V. Things I Learned
A. Techniques for making not only my podcasts better but things I can pass on to my students in my classes and my fellow faculty in the workshops that I do through the Department of Instructional Technology.
B. New audio and video equipment that can be used to improve the quality of my podcasts and help me in recommending equipment to others at the college.
C. And lastly the sheer excitement of the new podcast industry and the impact that it is making on the world of mass communications, and how it offers freedom to people to express themselves in business and in the classroom. This is a great mobile technology both from the listener and the producer as well.
VI. Idol Worship of Younger People.
People in the podcast business are much younger than myself.

VII. Don�t forget to sign-up and attend the podcast training workshops held in Central Campus this semester. These are held on the first Friday odf each month. Check the Instructional Technology Department Website for details.

bobCast #22 It is Not a Sin to Byte an Apple

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Introduction

Workshop Podcast
On Friday September 8th the Instructional Technology Department presented the first workshop in the Podcasting series that will be offered this semester. The workshop was held on Central Campus in Building 9 room 102. The workshop covered �Podcatching� or how to go about finding and subscribing to Podcasts. We talked about and showed how to use podcatching software � iTunes being the most outstanding of the applications.

The recording made during the workshop can be downloaded at:

http://www.broward.edu/~rbuford/podcasts/workshops

ThePowerPoint presentation can be down loaded from the same page and viewed while listening to podcast recording.

Apple in the Technology News:

Over view of the changes in the iPod and iTunes

BCC uses mostly Windows based machines. Windows is the main computer supported by the college as it is in most of Corporate America. The network used by the college supports the Windows platform even though the email software that we run on these windows machines is not the Microsoft Product which is Outlook but is GroupWise. GroupWise is a Novell Product. A lot of people think that the PC, which stands for �Personal Computer� (a term in the early days (less than 30 years ago) that allow one to separate it from real computers which at the time was mainframes and minicomputers) is the only real computer. The Apple computer falls into the �other� category. This is ironic since the Apple personal computer predated the IBM PC by several years. And of course it was not the �first� personal computer, but it was the first to give the Personal Computer a real role in the computer business.

This passed Tuesday September 12th Apple introduced several new additions to the world of Media. The world of media is a world in which Apple is a major player if not the industry leader.
New iPods
80 Gig Video iPod
New iPod Nano
New iTunes 7
Interface
Supports video better 640x480 resolution
Code named iTV
Will allow the wireless interface for video on your computer to be viewed on the �big Screen TV �in the den. This could be good news for the video podcast effort since you can watch Professor Searcy�s �biology� videos on the BIG Screen. It will be more comfortable than watching on your computer at a desk.

Interview with Pat Ellingham

Pat Ellingham who is at professor of English on BCC South Campus and the Faculty Advisor for the college's magazine publication talks to us about the use of Apple Macintosh computers in the publication of the School�s Magazine P�an Ku and his thoughts about using technology to teach.

Up coming Podcast Expo Sept 29 & 30 in Ontario, CA

Second Annual Podcast Expo
Some of the biggest names in the world of podcasting will be in attendance. Leo Laporte and the TWITs will be doing a live podcast from the floor of the showroom, and several other podcasters will be doing the same. The bobCast will be broadcasting from the hotel room and I am hoping to make this a special podcast production.

Closing Music selection

Mike Chappelear�s recording entitled �Endings�. This like all the music on the bobCast is from the Pod-show Network at http://music.podshow.com