Anchor
Anchor makes it easy to get started with your first podcast. It offers unlimited free hosting and covers all FAQ's about making a podcast along with tips and tricks for planning, producing and publishing podcasts. The phone app is simple to use with 5 easy steps that guide you through the podcast experience. You will be able to edit, split into segments and add background music. You can podcast with friends or have guest speakers. Anchor will also help distribute the podcast with Apple and Spotify if you don't want to distribute it manually. Requesting sponsorships is another feature that is easily activated.Podbean
Podbean is another platform that you can get start podcasting for free. Although, if you want more than 5 hours of storage and 100GB of bandwidth, you will need to opt for a paid plan ranging from $9 to $99 per month. The most popular plan being $29 per month with tons of features. It's easy to use from laptop or smartphone and once published, the podcast is available on Amazon Alexa. With scheduled publishing and audiograms to share on social media, Podbean seems to have everything needed for a school librarian to begin podcasting immediately.This podcast about collaboration in the school library was created with my class colleague, Emily, using Podbean.Collaboration in the Library by Emily & Kara
GarageBand
GarageBand is an application for making music or podcasts with all the tools you will ever need to create and enhance professional sounding podcasts. Buzzsprout offers this tutorial to get started by creating a template and covers recording, editing and exporting your podcast. GarageBand is free and there are tons of videos and articles walking you through the features that are available on this platform.Be sure to check out this link to hear Book Riot's recommendations for 13 Must-Hear podcasts for librarians. Knowledge Quest also has recommendations for these podcasts created BY and FOR school librarians. The School Library Journal wrote an article in 2018 encouraging school librarians to create podcasts and help students create them, as well. This informative write-up outlines tips and tricks for getting started immediately and the benefits of podcasts-both creating and listening.
I had not heard about Anchor before. thank you for bring this to my attention I think that this program will be useful since it is computer based as well as app based. I really like the unlimited feature!
ReplyDeleteYes! I really like Anchor too! I tried to Soundcloud, Audioboom, and Podbean and didn't like any of them. My partner like Podbean. However, I ended finding and using Anchor for our podcast.
ReplyDeleteSoundcloud and Audioboom were a little tricky to navigate. I was familiar with Podbean and found it easier to use. I will have to look into Anchor, it sounds like an overall winner!
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