On the 29th February, I guided a group of year 5 children at Cage Green in Tonbridge. They Brainstormed, scripted and recorded their Podcast.
Jingles and intro music was composed on Garage Band on the Mac mini.
Subscribe to their Podcast here: (Click on Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes then paste in the link).
http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/~182313/Year290208151825/rss.xml
Download the mp3 here:
http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/~182313/Year290208151825/Episode1.mp3

ScreenFlow is a complete workflow for creating screencasts: powerful enough to capture your desktop, video camera, microphone & computer audio at the same time.
Check out the awesome demo video and download ScreenFlow from www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/ .
The advanced features of this screen capture application put it far out in front of the existing apps.
ScreenFlow requires Mac OS X 10.5

FAQ: My mp3 recording sounds fine when I play it back on the software that I recorded it in, but sounds like chipmonks when downloaded as a Podcast.

The main issue is that you are playing the Podcast back using a player that can not cope with the sampling rate. If it is played in a Flash based player this is almost certain to be the problem. Flash Player only supports two sampling rates: 22050 and 44100. Most other players - including Audacity, can play tracks of different sample rates and sound totally normal.

The article here explains the issue and a possible solution by resampling (involves getting your hands dirty in the command line!):
www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/chipmunk.html

Ideally all recording would be done at 44100 in the first place.

If the sampling rate is set at too high a value and needs to be reduced to 44100, this can be done from the track menu. See screencast video here.

The mp3 export from Audacity is rather crude and can lead the user into thinking that the file is being exported out at 44100, when it is in fact nothing of the sort.

The Lame encoder used by Audacity can have different front ends applied. These open up other features of the Lame encoder. One key one, is to force a fixed sample rate for exported mp3s.
See http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php for the free download for Windows.

Once you install Razerlame, click on the LAME button, choose the Audio Processing tab, and set the sample rate to 44.1 kHz. That will force the resulting mp3 to 44.1.

To be safe in future, export from Audacity as a WAV file, then encode as an mp3 externally as a second step.

When exams are just around the corner, many students let fear of failure affect their performance. So why not video the dreaded GCSE results day, and make a podcast to show that it’s not as scary as it sounds? Windsor Boys School did just that, proving how podcasting can tackle a wide range of learning problems in unexpected ways.
www.apple.com/uk/education/profiles/windsor/

Curtis Jobling, designer of Bob the Builder and creator of the soon to be aired CBBC animation Frankenstein's Cat, has teamed up with independent educational software developer Kudlian Soft and Film Street the website from First Light Movies designed to engage under 12-year-olds with film and filmmaking, to launch a fantastic new competition for children - Animate IT '08.

Animate IT '08 challenges keen young animators to design their own 3D character for an animated, claymation film.
The competition is open to children aged 12 and under with both school and individual categories with two winners being chosen from each category.

The two individual winners will receive an iMage webcam and a copy of either Kudlian Soft's I Can Animate or Stop Motion Pro.
The two winners from the school category will win six iMage webcams and a school site licence for I Can Animate or Stop Motion Pro each.

www.kudlian.net/competition/animateit/

The Levelator is software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three.

www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

There is a detailed guide to using Podcasting as an education tool at Poducateme:
www.poducateme.com/guide/

On the 7th February 2008, I gave training in how to edit audio using Audacity, to representatives from ten schools from the Canterbury City and Country Cluster.
The session took place at at Simon Langton Girls' Grammar in Canterbury.
Thanks to Rob Slight - ICT AST and Projects Officer - for the invitation and the photos he took.
Photos follow:

I supported a group of year 2 children at Hadlow School. They worked for a morning and an afternoon session on their animation: Super Snail and Slowcoach Worm.

View it HERE. (Takes a while to load).
Watch it as a streamed Youtube movie HERE.

Year 2 children at Stocks Green School in Hildenborough, Tonbridge created "The Naughty Race"
Watch it as a Quicktime movie HERE. (Takes a while to load)
Watch it as a streamed Youtube movie HERE.