[notes from "New Media for Urban Change" course]
Podcasting for Urban Change...
This unit will teach techniques of audio capture, podcast creation, editing and uploading audio to personal/group websites and to destinations such as the Apple iTunes online store. Techniques learned in this unit can be used in your ongoing web-based projects.
[Official Assignment page for tonight's class]
Assignments for this unit:
- Continue development on your web-based project. The completed project is due November 21, which is the day before Thanksgiving. We won’t have class on November 23.
- Review this overview of the digital audio basics. We’ll record audio and demonstrate the differences in “bit rate” and “sample size.”
- Follow this link to learn the basics of the creation and deployment of “Podcasts”
- Explore the “media” page of the WidgetBox website for three or four audio “widgets” that you can add to your Blooger project page. Add these widgets and test them.
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A sig One significant advantage of digital is that you can scale the file to meet your needs -- like a photo, you can build it into a quick upload/download at only a small (almost indiscernable) sacrifice of quality.
ADC = Analog to Digital Converter
DAC = Digital to Analog Converter
'Sweet-spot' these days is 44 KHz Sampling Rate, 16-bit.
iTunes is effectively a podcast RSS-aggregator.
PODCAST tags