1. Click on the arrow in the group of icons at the bottom left of the iTunes application window to bring up the preview window.
2. Click on the preview window to bring up the larger playback window
3. Click on the Chapter drop down menu to move to different points in the playback of the enhanced podcast.
Multimedia production and recording equipment is available at the circulation desk in the Memorial Library. External Hard FireWire drives, Digital Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, TuneTalk Microphones and iPods are available for loan and use outside the library. USB Microphones are available for in house use only. The two multimedia rooms in the library are available for 3 hour periods and each contain a production level Mac and PC and software.Keep in mind, users will have to provide their own burnable CDs and DVDs for additional storage or back up. Anyone who wants to use the digital video cameras will have to purchase their own miniDV tapes as well.
Registration –An online form will be available at the Cortland iTunesU website http://www.cortland.edu/itunesu , where instructors can request course space in iTunesU. Instructors will need to provide their course name, course number, and CRN from Banner. After this information has been submitted to the iTunesU administration, training must be scheduled before the course space will be created.Until the online form is made available, iTunesU course requests should be made directly to the Technology Trainer (Tera Doty-Blance – dotyblancet@cortland.edu , 753-4056)Training –Instructors will be required to participate in two workshops, one on course management and one on podcast production, before the creation of their course space in iTunesU. The first workshop, on managing the course space will provide information on logging into the system, how and what sections of the course interface to edit, managing the student drop box, student versus instructor interfaces, proper file naming schemes and file management. The second workshop will cover podcast production on either the mac or pc platform, using Garageband, iMovie and/or Camtasia Studio. This production workshop will provide instruction in use of the software as well as additional hardware and file storage considerations. Student podcast production considerations and support will also be discussed.Support –Instructors can request in class presentations on Garageband, iMovie or Camtasia Studio by the Technology Trainer (Tera Doty-Blance) or the Multimedia Production specialist (Dawn VanHall). Such requests and scheduling will be made through the Coordinator of Instruction Librarian (Daniel Harms – 753-4042)Instructors are requested to provide information on student podcast assignments, such as scope of project, required elements, due date, etc, to the Coordinator of Instruction. This is for the purpose of coordinating support and equipment availability.Equipment –Multimedia production and recording equipment is available at the circulation desk in the Memorial Library. External Hard drives, Digital Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, TuneTalk Microphones and iPods are available for loan and use outside the library. USB Microphones are available for in house use only. The two multimedia rooms in the library are available for 3 hour periods and each contain a production level Mac and PC and software.
Users of the MultiMedia Computer Labs in the Library have been experiencing an error message when they attempt to select, Export Podcast to Disk… from the Share menu. In most instances, the error message does not occur on the first attempt to export. But, it will occur with any subsequent attempt to export or overwrite the podcast. This error is repeatable and appears to be unrelated to the location that the user is attempting to export to. We have not discovered any knowledge base documentation relating to this issue and have opened a posting in response.There are a couple of ways to work around this problem. Perhaps the easiest is to select the command, Send Podcast to iTunes, under the Share menu. This will create the same .m4a file that the export function would create and places it in your Music folder. The path to the file is User Home Directory/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/. An easier way to locate the file is to do a Spotlight search. Click on the blue magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar. In the search field, type the name of your podcast file. It will appear in a list that you can open. After locating the file, you should be able to drag it to any location you choose.Remember, when you log out of the computer, your home directory will be deleted along with any files you’ve stored there. So, it’s important to either burn a disk copy of your file, or put a copy on the Storage drive.We will track any updates on this problem and report them here after we’ve verified their accuracy. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue.Macintosh Technical Support Staff
With Camtasia Studio, you can record and edit an audio file then export it as an mp3 file, ready for upload to iTunesU. Camtasia Studio is available on the PCs in both the Multimedia Rooms in Memorial Library.Click here to download a pdf with step by step instructions, with screen shots, on how to:
Be sure to visit the Technology Training Center Online Materials page for instructional documents on other applications such as iWeb and Garageband.
Garageband is part of the iLife suite of applications and is available on all MacIntosh computers in the Library Mac Lab and Multimedia Rooms. With Garageband, you can create a short, simple, unedited audio only recording, or a chapter marked, image enhanced podcast with embedded links to websites, or anything in between!On the Tecchnology Training Center website, you will find detailed step by step instructions, with screen shots, on how to create a podcast ready audio recording with Garageband. Click here to download the pdf file for Creating a Simple Audio Podcast in 12 Steps.
Many staff and students on campus are eager to find easy to understand how-to’s about podcasting. Apple has produced a very interesting 3 part, on-demand web seminar dealing with tips and tricks for producing professional quality podcasts. You can register athttp://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/podcast/apple/index.html?s=203Part 1 deals with the types of audio equipment available and techniques for creating professional sounding audio recordings. Part 2 focuses on the production aspects of podcasts. Presented by a popular podcast producer, it shows some interesting techniques for producing professional looking podcasts. Part 3, though not as immediately relevant to our podcast publishing, nevertheless presents an inside look at the iTunes Music Store Podcast directory, and gives some tips for successfully posting a podcast to Apple’s directory. (Our users will soon be able to post to our iTunes U site directly.)As a whole, the seminar is a good introductory overview on the technical aspects of podcast production. It’s well worth the time to watch. Each segment is approximately 30 mins. long.
