Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder that works on almost any computer (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux). It is a popular and versatile tool for creating podcasts.
Student-produced podcasts bolster knowledge and communication skills.
This is a short "Getting started" tutorial for teachers and students to explain downloading and installing Audacity, making a recording then performing basic editing steps.
This tutorial assumes you want to create a podcast of the very common type where you talk over a music background, or have talk interspersed with music.
The world of internet podcasts has some unlikely new rising stars. They're a bunch of kids from the Lajamanu school, about 600 kilometres north west of Alice Springs. With their teacher they've started their own audio podcast on the internet.