Monday, February 4, 2013

Spreaker is Great for Podcasts!

This short blog post will be about Spreaker which is a web based platform for creating and storing your own audio podcasts.

My computer class created a short podcast by opening up Spreaker on a laptop and clicking broadcast. We plugged in a microphone into a laptop and the student interviewer asked military related questions to our custodian David Isabel. Creating the podcast and storing it on the Spreaker website was very quick and easy.

When I first tested this out I used the iPad app for Spreaker and the sound was amazing. The built in microphone made it easy to record yet just a little awkward because the iPad was the microphone. Regardless, recording a podcast was easy both ways and I highly recommend Spreaker for audio podcasts.

One way to improve the podcast is to have two microphones and to add a personalized jingle. But these are minor points if you compare this method to the old way of recording a podcast with Audacity and then loading that to Podbean.

I also recommend the Spreaker iPad app. Although it froze a couple of times, the sound quality and ease of use compares well with the website version. Spreak away!

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