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:
- Share recorded messages with others (for teachers these can be announcements, assignments, ideas, and examples of student work)
- 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
- Ask for feedback on an idea or topic (visitors can leave comments)
- 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)
- Convert spoken audio into text, which can be copied and pasted from the website into another program
- 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?
- 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.
- Enter other required registration information, including:
- The primary phone number you’ll use to phonecast
- Your email address (again to confirm)
- Your desired password (twice to confirm)
- The captcha at the bottom to prove you’re human and not a computer!
- Your registration should be confirmed! Make a note of the phone number and your personal PIN (personal identification number) you’ll use to phonecast.
- To record a phonecast:
- 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 -
- If you have an iPhone or Android-based smartphone, download the free iPadio application and click RECORD AND PUBLISH to record a phonecast.
- 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