Podcasting Kits

One of the things we'll be discussing next week (8/21 - 8/24 2007) is podcasting equipment. While I was Faculty Development Coordinator for the Seattle Community Colleges, we purchased podcasting kits for the FD Office and each of the campuses. We purchased them from BSW for about $250.

We soon realized that we needed to create instructions for using them and Geoff Mathay and I filmed some short videos that show the contents of the kit, how to connect all the pieces and how to set and use the controls on the mixer. I made a short video using Camtasia that shows how to select the microphone from the podcasting kit before recording with Audacity.

I produced them as Vodcasts (video podcasts) and they can be viewed by clicking on the links below. If your computer doesn't know which media player to use, I recommend you select QuickTime. And you can put them on your video iPod, too, of course!

Part 1 - Contents of the kit
Part 2 - Connecting all the pieces
Part 3 - Setting the controls (volume, etc.)
Part 4 - Selecting the microphone before recording with Audacity

What do you think? Was this a good way to show faculty how to use the podcasting kits?