Doug then went on to show us how to use an excellent piece of podcasting software produced by Softease called Podium. All delegates had a go at recording their voices, editing their recording and adding sound effects. We were also shown how to organise the recordings into chapters, fade the recordings in and out and add ‘layers’ of sound to create professional sounding productions. Finally, he showed us how the software makes it easy to publish and promote the finished podcast. Click here to watch the Podium demonstration videos and here to download help guides and information about Podium. Phillipa Lloyd-Perks from Softease was also there and offered Newham schools a 15% discount on orders received by the 31st July. Doug has written in his blog about the day, click here to read what he made of the event.

Our last ‘guest’ speaker was Newham’s LGfL representative, Pippa Dorman who introduced the conference to the LGfL Podcast site which is a free service available to all London schools. She also demonstrated how to use Audacity which is a freely downloadable sound recorder and editor (please note, Audacity also needs the LAME encoder to create .mp3 files) showing us that podcasting can be done without investing in additional software. Pippa led the conference through a very enjoyable activity whereby delegates downloaded music from the excellent audio network site and added it to a voice recording. Some of the finished masterpieces can be heard here. Pippa has created a number of useful help guides which can be downloaded from here and you can find out more about the LGfL Podcast service by visiting the LGfL ‘Podcast Central’ area.