Podcasts

Podcasts are a great way for librarians to get information out to students and teachers. There are so many different ways a librarian can use podcasts and an unlimited amount of topics that podcasts can feature. Podcasts can easily be shared via email or posted on websites, and can be a great way to get others interested or aware of certain things. Below are three different podcast sites that I researched to decide which site I liked the most. Following that is a link to a podcast about the process of weeding that my group discussed. 

Buzzsprout
This was the first site I played around with to see if I could record a podcast on it. It is a free source, but requires a log in. I didn't think it was as user friendly as the other two sources listed below. Also, it seems that in order to save the recorded podcast, it will automatically be saved in a platform such as ITunes or Spotify, instead of the ability to simply save to your desktop. 

PodBean
My group and I were going to use PodBean first to record our podcast with. After playing around with it, we decided this was not going to work. PodBean is not very user friendly, and because we all located in different places, we needed to be able to have multiple devices connected and recording at the same time.  

Cleanfeed
This is the site my group and I chose to record our podcast on. It was very user friendly, free to use, and it allowed for us to work from multiple computers and still record. Cleanfeed made it easy to download the podcast and save it to my computer. Overall this was a great tool and one I will definitely be using in the future. 

Click on the link below to listen to the discussion my group had over the process of weeding out books in the library. This was a fun podcast to create, and hopefully will be informative to others. 

Process of Weeding Podcast


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  1. KnapeJuly 28, 2020 at 12:07 PM

    My group was looking for a way to simultaneously record from a distance and the one we used didn't really give too many options. I like that there are other platforms to explore remotely.

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