Life in the Network

First, go to the Odeo Studio page. It’ll look like this:

It’ll think for a minute, and then ask permission to access your computer’s mic and camera:

Click on “allow”, of course. Then record your podcast. When you’re done fiddling with it, click the “save” button. The next screen you see will look like this:

Fill in all the necessary fields, and make sure you choose a podcast for it to place it in — that’s the very last pull-down menu. Then click “Save” again. Odeo will generate some code for you:

Copy and paste this code into a new post in MovableType:

Title it, put it in the correct category, and then hit “Publish.” Et voila! A podcast embedded in the blog! Like this one, which is a few seconds of me wondering why in the world I haven’t done podcasting before, since it’s so easy.

Have I ever mentioned to you guys before that I’m rather deaf? Because I am. (Not so deaf that I don’t also teach in regular, f2f classrooms, though.) I think that’s been a mental barrier to podcasting for me, since the sound quality on amateur podcasts is often poor (as it is on this one), and therefore harder to understand. It’s much quicker for me to read text than it is to listen to something. I’m glad this exercise has made me push past that.