Welcome to the industrious teacher’s first audio podcast. In this episode, I’ll take you through the steps I’ve gone through to make this podcast. I’ll tell you what equipment and software I’m using and why I chose to do it this way. It’s a little bit daunting to start using technology in a classroom that has been going OK for years. But today’s students are learning and interacting in the world in such an innovative and engaging manner, that I felt podcasting was worth the investigation. I have a techie side to me, but mainly I dabble. I started the idea of creating podcasting myself with research. I went into iTunes and searched under education and “podcasts on podcasting� and listened to several days worth of those. Upon advice of many of the podcasters I listened to I chose Libsyn to host my RSS feed. I also couldn’t figure out yahoo, the hosting company of my current static webpage. I didn’t want a .Mac account because it limited my bandwidth for the $99 per year. That just didn’t’ sound like something I wanted to deal with if I ever had to worry about my podcast getting a lot of subscribers. I’m self-financing this project as a tool to help me learn about podcasting, so limiting my cost is paramount to me. I’m typing my show notes in Microsoft Word for Mac, because I need a spell checker on constantly. I’ll copy and paste them if I figure out how, into the podcast. I’m using Garage Band 3 to create my podcast with my iBook G4 built-in mic. Libsyn allows me to edit my webpage there, but I’m not sure I’m up to it right now. I did change the font color and added the libsyn player. I’ll tinker with that as I go. I posted a short purpose that is text only just to see how it worked.