Okay so I finally mustard enough courage to record and make my very own podcast. I get nervous when it comes to public speaking, filming and recording myself, but I was able to move on from this insecure feeling and make a recording in my home ALONE.
I wasn’t sure on what to speak about, I decided I would give a recount of the steps taken to create a paper plate butterfly. I am currently a Group Leader in the 2-3 age group, at a local day care centre. In my room we are currently learning about insects this theme is based on the children’s interests. We have been reading factual books about different bugs and on Monday (16th August) the children wanted to paint butterflies. I thought instead of just paint a butterfly on a piece of paper, we would create a 3D butterfly. The podcast explains how we did this.
I did come across a number of challenges when creating a podcast. Firstly MyPodcast was no longer taking any new members, so I continued on using Podomatic to create and publish my podcast instead. After reading through the tutorial that was provided I began the creation process. I found the tutorial straight forward enough but once I got passed the uploading part I got lost, my new podcast did not show up in My Podcast Page. Where to now? I had to play around in my podomatic account for a while before I figured out that after uploading my audio file I had to edit the details following a process (Title, description, audio/video, photos and tags, review and publish) eventually leading to publishing the file as a podcast on my account. I was also quite pleased with myself to discover that i could embed a link (from my Podomatic account) to place a audio player within my blog posting to play my podcast right then and there. Here is the link to my Podomatic page http://eva-7771.podomatic.com/. Enjoy.
