Creating an Enhanced
Podcast Using a Mac
Jen La Certe
Chaparral Middle School
Enhanced Podcast
• Uses sound & pictures
• Can be viewed/heard in iTunes or any
mp3 player
• Easy for students & teachers to create
• Does not require excessive storage
What You Need
• A Mac
• GarageBand or Audacity
• Pictures (or PowerPoint or Keynote
slides)
• A plan
Garage Band & Audacity
• All new Mac’s come with Garage Band
• Audacity is mainly for PCs and can be
downloaded for free—it is only for audio
• Keynote is the Mac version of
PowerPoint…either one works
GarageBand
• Click on
Create
New
Podcast
Episode
•You will give your
project a name
•You should create a
new folder to keep all
your stuff in
Text
Using GarageBand
•Click on a track
(male or female
voice)
•Click on the red
record button and
speak clearly into the
top of the screen
•To stop recording
click red button and
play button
Recording Audio: voice
Putting in
Pictures
•Click photos on
the media
browser
•Click on the
photo you want
and drag it to the
podcast track
Put the photo in and
match it with the audio
You can add
fun stuff using
the Jingles
track and the
many choices
below.
Some Tips on
PowerPoint or
Keynote:
•PowerPoint: go to File>
Page Setup> set the slides
to be square
•Keynote: click on
inspector, select the
document icon, go to Slide
Size and select Custom,
and set to any square size
One More
Thing on
PowerPoint or
Keynote:
•PowerPoint: to make the
slides into pictures just go
to File > Save as Pictures
•Keynote: to make the
slides into pictures go to
File > Send to... > iPhoto
Finishing Up
Go to the
“Share” menu
and select
“Export
Podcast to
Disk”
Select “Export”
then choose a
place to save
the mp4
(iTunes) file and
click “Save”.
To play the podcast in iTunes: drag the
m4a file into the iTunes Library.
Jen La Certe
jslacerte@yahoo.com