Welcome to the Pod
Podcasting enables anyone to share their story. School leaders can share their vision. Teachers can share their projects. Students can have an authentic audience. And it’s never been easier to start sharing your community’s voice.
Anchor FM is an app that enables you to create and publish a podcast for free. All you need is a phone!
Voice Memos (iOS) is another free way to record. You’ll need to figure out how to get the recordings online, but zero additional hardware is required.
The next big step is getting some fancier microphones. The Zoom H6 is an mobile recorder that has 2 built-in mics, and room for four more microphone inputs. You can also connect the Zoom to GarageBand to record directly to a laptop.
The Blue Yeti mic sounds incredible. It’s a USB mic, so connecting to a laptop or mobile device is super easy. This microphone can record in stereo (that’s rare and awesome!), so you can head who’s on the left side of the table, and who is on the right.
The fanciest and most professional way to record a podcast is to get large diaphragm microphones and an IO (input/output, the thing that gets mics into the computer). We recommend the Apogee Quartet to get 4 mics into the computer, and the Rode NTK microphones.
Podcasts We Like
- Bedley Bros. (edu-focused)
- Check This Out (edu-focused)
- Build In Progress (edu-focused)
- Learn with John Eick (edu-focused)
- Do School Better (edu-focused)
- Revisionist History
- Radio Atlantic
- Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
- OnBeing with Krista Tippet
- TED Radio Hour
- This American Life
- Hidden Brain
- Planet Money
- Radiolab
- Curiosity Daily
- Masters of Scale
- How I Built This
- The Moth
- Invisibilia
- Aspen Ideas to Go
- Science Talk, SciAm
