Easy Podcasting for Teachers and Students with Synth

hi there Jamie Keith here today at teachers tech hope you having a great day today I'm excited to bring you information about bringing podcast into your classroom now I'm excited about bringing you this for a couple reasons one I just think podcasts are such a great way for dad to empower teachers voice to share in professional learning and also for students to bring their voice out to through projects it helps in so many different ways through communication and critical thinking creativity communication is such a great method and synth here makes it very easy to jump right into podcasting now the other reason I'm excited about this is I have Sethi from flipped classrooms tutorial helping me out on this and he's gonna walk you through the process of Sid setting everything up I'll have the link to his channel down below in the description to go check it out because he has a ton of information to help teachers and students to digitize their classroom to help flip their classroom so let's get started on this walk through today that said he's going to give you with synth and I'll put the links to the site and everything down below but let's get started here at Teachers Tech hi my name is city and first of all before anything let me just say thank you Jamie for having me on your channel now today I'm going to be showing everyone how to use go synth or synth and synth is basically a platform that allows you to do bite-sized podcasting and it's amazing for both students teachers or anyone interested in podcasting in general so let's dive into it synth is part of a micro podcasting movement is sort of the Twitter of podcast you're limited to 256 seconds for each synth but you can't stitch them all together into a longer podcast now where can you find it simply go to the URL go since calm now once you here you

can click on sign up and then you can choose how you would like to sign up now just to make it easy I'm going to use continue with Google but you can use your own credentials if you choose to go ahead and click on continue with Google give a permission and here we are now on the synth platform now the first thing I'd like you to notice at the top you'll see there are three different buttons we have a feed Explorer and podcasts now what are these now the feed is where you can play all your synths or your short micro podcasts and they will automatically play one after another the second section Explorer is where you can find all the other public podcasts created by others now the last section that's where you will be stitching your sins together into your own podcasts and where you can set the settings of each individual podcast to either be public or private now let's go ahead and click on podcasts we're going to now create our very first podcast now in the podcast menu we're going to click on create podcast it's asking for a podcast name I'm going to call this the flipped teachers collaboration and there we go our podcast is now ready to be published now you can see there's three options yet again now the top will give you the link that people will use to listen to your podcasts you can share this anywhere you'd like the second one is a link and participation code that means if you share this link people can add to your podcast and they can leave 256 second long since so this will add to a collaborative podcast and at the bottom we have the option of embedding our podcast onto a website you can embed this on a Google Sites or any other platform that allows you to use embed now let's go ahead and close this for now because now we need to start recording our podcasts I'm now inside my podcast and what I'm going to do to record my first sin is I'm going to

press on that plus icon that you see there so let's go ahead and click that together this opens up the built-in recorder and I can record a 256 second long synth so let's go ahead and do that right now hi this is city from flipped classroom tutorials and I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on this collaborative podcast environment now since are great because they're not only short but it's also very easy to stitch multiple sins together and to collaborate with others as I am doing right here with Jamie now I'm going to save this first synth and I'm looking forward to hearing Jamie's response in this same podcast now once you've recorded a synth you can listen back to it or you can continue recording and add to it once you're happy with the result simply click on done now once you click on done your synth will be uploaded to their servers now in this next part of the menu you can now add a little chime before your synth or you can simply leave it as it is let's go ahead and add a chime and I'm going to select the intro radio intro let's go ahead and click on add so we now have two parts to this first synth we have a radio intro and my recording at the top we can turn on transcription and this will allow us to then also have a transcription of

everything that was said and as you can see they're not ideal but what we can do is we can now go to the top and we can click on edits and take out all other mistakes so go ahead and do that right now click on edit and then take out all the grammatical or these spelling mistakes once a transcription was edited and updated you simply click on next you can create a custom title now for your synth and we're going to simply call this intro you can add some hash tags and all these will help you in the discovery part of making your sense public and if you're using this in class or with students you can even link to relevant documents or websites that you would like to use and there we go now as soon as we click on send this synth it goes live within our podcast over here I

have three more options to make this podcast even better I can hether image to make it more personalized the second option is my sharing so let's go ahead and click on share and you will see the same options appear I can have a web link for people to listen I can share it and have a participation code so they can add their own sins into the podcast or I can get an embed code down the bottom there is a little toggle and if I toggle this on it will also become visible within the explore part of go since now I'm going to keep it private for now and we're going to just leave it as it is now the three dots are going to give you access to the Settings window and also allow you to download the entire podcast as an audio file this is great if you want to use it offline and that's all there is to synth Thank You Jamie for having me over on your channel and I can't wait to see your video on the flipped classroom tutorials channel in the meantime thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one Thank You Sadie for that great rundown of synth I think a lot of teachers can really take advantage of how simple this program is to use the other thing I just wanted to point out was to take a look at the blog feature here on the site you're gonna see lots of good articles that could help you decide how to use this in your classroom and also check the podcast out where they had some competitions and it shows the use from elementary all the way up to high school so lots of good examples to help you in setting up your own podcast let us know if you're interested in learning more about podcasts leave some comments down below in the comment section well that's it for this week and remember to check out steadies channel the links down below flip classroom tutorials it's awesome there's an awesome amount of information there I'll see you next week on teachers tech