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Phonecasting is a simple way of creating podcasts, all you need is a phone and an account on Phonecasting. With both of those you can phone into the number that they give you, talk, and you are actively recording a podcast from just about anywhere through your cell phone. You can also set it up so anyone can listen to your podcast from their phone or cell phone just by calling a different number that you get from your Phonecasting account.

But what about iTunes U? What if I want to use iTunes U as the way for my students to access my podcasts? Well you can easily download the podcasts that you create on Phonecasting (only the ones you create because we respect copyright) and then you can upload it to iTunes U. Problem solved, all the benefits of both these great tools.

Phonecasting has many other options that allow you to create groups, rss feed, and other great social media goodies but I will leave that exploration up to you if you want to use the extra functionality. The reason I won’t go into that is due to it being slightly more difficult to set up, nothing too intense but I have a feeling people just want an easy way to create a podcast.

How can I use this for education?

Podcasts are great for so many different reasons so I will try to give a few examples of how they are good and a few examples of why to use Phonecasting to create your podcasts.

Podcasts

• Deliver lectures that are always accessible for the student
• Deliver added benefits content (introduction to yourself, explanations, readings, daily course tips, etc ) to students like videos and audio
• Record your computer screen (need to use a different tool like Jing) to easily show students how to do common or complex tasks on the computer

Why use Phonecasting?

• I can record almost anywhere, even on a bus or while I am walking the dog.
• Its easy to record
• I can still download my podcasts
• People can listen to my podcast from their mobile device