01_Podomatic


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Podomatic is a podcast service that can be accessed for free at: www.podomatic.com

You can sign up for a free account and begin to podcast immediately. The idea of podcasting is really to broadcast your lessons, ideas, activities online, in the form of multimedia files that are available on a specific channel (your podcast channel) that everyone can access, listen or view and especially download to their mobile devices or their own computers, and access offline, for additional practice.

This means a few things:


 * first you must have multimedia files prepared in advance to upload to your channel
 * then you must upload them according to a plan - for example you can create events to your channel that give an idea of the type of podcasts that people subscribe to - you want to give titles and short descriptions to your files so people know what to expect or look for
 * keep your podcasting for educational purposes short - research indicates that learners tune out past 3 minutes in length. Better create more shorter podcasts than fewer but longer ones.
 * share your podcasts with your colleagues and your students - at the core of the podcasting idea is the fact that if we all share what we come up with the bank of resources we all access increases exponentially. This benefits everyone.

For a presentation on podcasting you can view it in English at this link.

For additional step-by-step instructions on how to podcast using Podomatic, click here.