Source: Cleanfeed Cleanfeed is an audio recorder that lives entirely in the browser. You can use it to record yourself, or add others to the conversation. The account holder needs to be at least 16 years old, so using the service with students would be limited to the latter part of high school.
Source: Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts Descript is the rare piece of software that not only does amazing things, but it is also reasonably priced. If you ever wanted an easy way to edit your podcast, take a look at Descript. To start with Descript, you need to feed it some audio. The…
Source: Listle – Daily news and top stories turned into podcasts Listle is an Android, iOS, and web app that takes news articles from various services and adds human narration. The website talks about creating a podcast, but it’s not automatic. Once you have registered and signed in to the app (Email or Google accounts…
This is the Allusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, have talked about language and why and how we use it for 100 episodes! Today there’ll be a celebratory parade of language-related facts that you’ve learned from the Allusionist and I’ve learned from making the Allusionist, so some old facts, some new facts – well, the…
Source: SpeechBoard | Home | The easiest way to edit podcasts This looks really cool, and makes it a lot easier to remove all of the umms and extra words from a podcast. There is a 5MB upload limit, which for .mp3 is approximately 7-10 minutes depending on the quality. For macOS users, the Descript app…
Source: Anchor – Radio, reinvented Although you can do some of the work for the podcast from the browser, you’ll need to use one of the mobile apps to unleash all of the power. Anchor is the easiest way I’ve found to record and share audio. It’s as simple as hitting the record button. Each recording…
Listen to Podcasts is part 8 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Hot on the heels of RSS is Podcasts, a technology that relies on RSS to work. What are podcasts? The idea of podcasts has been around since the 1980s, but what is now commonly referred to as podcasts started in the…
Two years ago, I was practically begging a student to read a novel in my high-school English class. This isn’t an unusual problem. The girl, who’s a relatively bright, college-bound athlete, told me that she “just gets too distracted after five minutes” of reading. When she promised that she would listen to the audiobook of…