Podcast by phone
Sometimes too much control is a bad thing. Sitting at your desk in front of a microphone can be intimidating. It’s tough to start talking to yourself without feeling like your cheese is sliding off your cracker. Powerful editing software and lots of background music gives you unlimited options, but is it too much?
Consider the alternative. You can set up your account with Gcast , Then log in and configure your pin number. After that, you dial the phone number they give you and your files get published on the web.
Here’s my quick sample I did from my cellphone. (If you’re wondering, you are able to delete a recording and start again before your podcast is published online. It’s so easy, I know you’ll be able to figure it out. )
After about 5 minutes, my audio file was available on my gcast page. I clicked on a link that promised to help me add my podcast to MySpace, and was directed to a page with player options for what you see here.
You’ll see that my gCast page allows you to pick which tools you’d like to subscribe to the podcast with… iTunes, a few different feed readers, or an email subscription. I’m not sure that I’d use that feature, though. I’d probably embed the code in a class web page instead.
So is the quality great? Not really, but imagine sending out a voicemail to all your students (or their parents) in just minutes. It won’t win an academy award for sound production, but it might just be the right tool for the job.
Interested in other ways to podcast by phone? Click here to learn about 3 other tools you could use.
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I think one of these web services is ideal if you want to audioblog, as opposed to podcast. My thought is that you can’t really do that much with the sound quality, and it doesn’t feel like a “broadcast”, but if you just wanted to record your blogging in audio, it would be a good tool. Not sure if that made sense, but basically I wouldn’t try to build up a web presence as a “podcaster” with one of these services. I would just use it to supplement my blog.
That’s pretty sweet. I know a teacher who did something like this for his school’s east coast trip. I don’t know if he used Gcast, but while they were on the trip they sent podcast updates from their cell phones to the class blog. It sounded pretty cool. But what an awesome and easy way to have kids keep their parents posted on what is going on.
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