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QuickStart Guide to iPadio
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QuickStart Guide to iPadio

www.ipadio.com

What is it?

iPadio is a FREE web service that allows users to phonecast & broadcast live online using a phone. Phonecasts are audio recordings (like voicemail) recorded with any phone using a special phone number & PIN. Recorded phonecasts posted to a personal iPadio phlog (phone blog), can be linked or embedded elsewhere, & are automatically converted from speech to text.

Why would I use it?

Share ideas, feedback, reflections, and other information from ANYWHERE using your phone, on a public website anyone can access. iPadio can be used to:

  1. Share recorded messages with others (for teachers these can be announcements, assignments, ideas, and examples of student work)
  2. Record and share messages “on location” when traveling, on a field trip, in a museum, or any other location where your cell phone can make a call
  3. Ask for feedback on an idea or topic (visitors can leave comments)
  4. Interview someone in person and make their recorded audio file available online as a downloadable mp3 file (which can be further edited with Audacity, Garageband, or other programs)
  5. Convert spoken audio into text, which can be copied and pasted from the website into another program
  6. Cross-post to other websites and social networks (Posterous can share to Facebook, Twitter, and other blogs you may have already setup or may setup in the future)

How do I use it?

  1. Create a FREE iPadio account by visiting www.ipadio.com. In the upper right corner enter your first name, last name (surname) and a current email address which you can access from your current location. Click REGISTER.
  2. Enter other required registration information, including:
  1. The primary phone number you’ll use to phonecast
  2. Your email address (again to confirm)
  3. Your desired password (twice to confirm)
  4. The captcha at the bottom to prove you’re human and not a computer!
  1. Your registration should be confirmed! Make a note of the phone number and your personal PIN (personal identification number) you’ll use to phonecast.
  2. To record a phonecast:
  1. With any type of phone, call your iPadio phone number with the phone you registered (in the US this may be 1-866-488-3946) and use your PIN to start phonecasting. - OR -
  2. If you have an iPhone or Android-based smartphone, download the free iPadio application and click RECORD AND PUBLISH to record a phonecast.
  1. Login to the iPadio.com website to view your posted phonecasts, the converted text from audio, etc. Sample iPadio page: www.ipadio.com/phlogs/WesleyFryer/

Created by Wesley Fryer - 6 July 2010 - www.speedofcreativity.org