Podcasting

Podcasting:

Elgg is an effective podcasting platform
Firstly, let’s upload an MP3 into the file repository
Select ‘Your Files’ – for now will we just put the file into the root folder although there is no reason you could not create a specific folder for your podcasts
Make sure you select the access restrictions to ‘public’ and give the file some keywords (tags – comma separated)
Check the checkbox to say you have permission to upload this file and click ‘Upload’

That is it.

Now if you subscribe to your RSS feed in something like iTunes it will pick up your podcast

Embedding into your blog

You can embed podcasts into your blog with some reflective commentary.
Go to ‘Your Blog’ and create a new post – make the access level public – once you have given the post a title, some content and keywords, scroll down to the ‘Embed a file…’ dropdown.
Select your newly uploaded MP3 file and select ‘Add’
Now post the blog entry and you will notice that a podcast widget appears in your post allowing people to play the content right in the page

Podcast by content

You can subscribe to all podcasts filtered by subject (tag), this is great way to follow all podcasts about ePortfolios that are uploaded to an Elgg environment