Comments on: Blogs and Podcasting http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/ Using ICT and Gaming for learning Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:07:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Paul McGreavy http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-86 Paul McGreavy Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:14:59 +0000 http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-86 Steve, Thanks for the w2.0 work on wed. I've been looking @ flickr & trying to geotag. How did you do it & link to google? Steve,

Thanks for the w2.0 work on wed. I’ve been looking @ flickr & trying to geotag. How did you do it & link to google?

]]> By: Dale http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-77 Dale Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:41:39 +0000 http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-77 As Steve suggests, the RSS enclosures that make the recorded file into a feed is automatically generated by Wordpress. Wordpress hasn't always done this but it's been the case since about March. I discussed it on my own blog <a href="http://dale.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/07/podcasting-2/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This was one of the main considerations when I started podcasting - how was I to generate the enclosures without having to encode them myself (tedious for me to do, inconvenient and downright difficult for young learners using ethink)? Before Wordpress included the facility in their code I used to use <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home" rel="nofollow">feedburner </a> to generate the podcast enclosures; it's not hard to do (and Feedburner provides a LOAD of other neat facilities) but was just another operation to go through that was abstracted too far from the blog posting for young learners to take on board. As it happens, then, the MP3 file you created IS a podcast - I just put it into my podcatcher and it aggregated just fine. As Steve suggests, the RSS enclosures that make the recorded file into a feed is automatically generated by Wordpress. Wordpress hasn’t always done this but it’s been the case since about March. I discussed it on my own blog here.
This was one of the main considerations when I started podcasting - how was I to generate the enclosures without having to encode them myself (tedious for me to do, inconvenient and downright difficult for young learners using ethink)? Before Wordpress included the facility in their code I used to use feedburner to generate the podcast enclosures; it’s not hard to do (and Feedburner provides a LOAD of other neat facilities) but was just another operation to go through that was abstracted too far from the blog posting for young learners to take on board.
As it happens, then, the MP3 file you created IS a podcast - I just put it into my podcatcher and it aggregated just fine.

]]> By: tarannau http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-75 tarannau Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:55:17 +0000 http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-75 Michael, as soon as your file is uploaded to, or linked to from, your blog then the file is enclosed by the RSS feed. That then allows people to subscribe to the feed, which would include the podcast. Michael, as soon as your file is uploaded to, or linked to from, your blog then the file is enclosed by the RSS feed. That then allows people to subscribe to the feed, which would include the podcast.

]]> By: mparkes http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-74 mparkes Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:09:26 +0000 http://tarannau.ethink.org.uk/2006/07/21/blogs-and-podcasting/#comment-74 Hi Steve Just a quick thank you for the CPD sessions on Wednesday. This has contributed well to discussions we are having here on Web 2. Interestingly I have been told that what I was doing on your afternoon sessions wasn't podcasting but downloading media files (because there was no RSS feed involved). This may be technically true, but I think if students are going through the process of creating mp3/m4a files, using software that uses the term 'podcasting' (as Garageband does) and students are downloading the files and listening to them (especially on a remote device) then that sounds like podcasting to me. What are your views? Regards Hi Steve
Just a quick thank you for the CPD sessions on Wednesday. This has contributed well to discussions we are having here on Web 2. Interestingly I have been told that what I was doing on your afternoon sessions wasn’t podcasting but downloading media files (because there was no RSS feed involved). This may be technically true, but I think if students are going through the process of creating mp3/m4a files, using software that uses the term ‘podcasting’ (as Garageband does) and students are downloading the files and listening to them (especially on a remote device) then that sounds like podcasting to me. What are your views?
Regards

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