Audio+II

=Audio II - Podcasting=

**Making your own podcast**
Apart from exploiting existing podcasts for listening practice, podcasting is also a powerful tool when you involve students in the content creation themselves.

**Things to consider**

 * type of project** - radio show? story?
 * recording audio** - how to do it (direct to PC? With a voice recorder?)
 * editing** - to edit or not to edit

RECORDING / PUBLISHING
There are two easy ways to start:

Best start with **Posterous** []
 * 1) Recording offline**

Best to start with this use **Soundcloud** @http://soundcloud.com/
 * 2) Recording online**

Another popular tool = **Podomatic** [|http://www.podomatic.com]

//Learn more here:// The Top 5 hosting sites for your podcast

EDITING
Use Audacity, powerful free audio editing tool http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

**Classroom Applications**
Let's look at a video of two teaching situations where podcasting is used in the UK (a music teacher and a modern foreign language teacher) Watch the Teachers TV video (5 minutes) and reflect on the questions