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Week 08: Podcasts/Voki
Podcasting and Talking Avatars (Voki)
Voki
You will be creating a talking avatar. A Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.
Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms. You will also be able to download it to most video supported phones.
Podcasting
The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for
podcasting. You are not required to look at all of the material, but
search it until you feel that you have a good understanding of what is
required for you to fulfill the assignment.
| Table of contents |
What is a Podcast?
Podcasts are audio programs that are broadcasted over the Internet.
They are MP3 files which can be downloaded onto a compatible digital
player or played on your computer. You can download one or many, for
free (generally), or you can subscribe to an RSS service for downloads
so you can be alerted when new postings are made available. The name
podcast comes from compounding the words iPod and
broadcast.
More definitions:
- Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting) - PBWiki
(http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com/) - Yahoo
(http://podcasts.yahoo.com) - PodcastAlley
(http://www.podcastalley.com/what_is_a_podcast.php) - iLounge
(http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/understanding-the-podcasting-revolution) - Wired
(http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70884-0.html) - Apple’s page
(http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/)
Links to Learning
A good
tutorial (http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com/)This is the same
link above (PBWiki).
An
ipod tutorial
(http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/)
How to subscribe and listen to them:
- You will need a ‘podcast software client’ that will download the
feed via your Internet connection:- For Windows, Mac
see: Apple
(http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/) - You will download iTunes. Then watch the following video tutorial on how to subscribe to podcasts: http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/#video-podcasts
- For Windows, Mac
- You can listen to podcasts directly from your computer. If you want
to take a podcast with you, any MP3 player or iPod will work. You do
not need iTunes.
iTunes info (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-itunes-49-with-podcasts/) Yahoo info (http://podcasts.yahoo.com/start?i=3) Podcast Alley info (http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
These are samples of subscription ‘badges:’
(http://podcasts.yahoo.com)
(http://podcasts.yahoo.com)
(http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
(http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
(http://www.dopplerradio.net)
(http://www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/)
(http://nimiq.nl)
Assignment
- Subscribe to at least one podcast from iTunes.
- Follow it for a week
- Post a link to the podcast’s website to your blog
- Describe your favorite moments in the podcast
Part II
- Create your own talking Voki: http://www.voki.com/
- Create a 30 second clip discussing what you liked most about Tuesdays With Morrie and post it to your blog (embed the html code to your post). Then share it with us.
