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__**1) What is a podcast?**__ A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. A homemade radio-style show that you post on your website or blog. __**2) What are the following terms: Bumper Music, Host, MP3, Segment, Tagline, Teaser, Record, Online.**__ Bumper Music – is known in the radio broadcasting industry to be music to introduce or finish a sement of a podcast. Host – Host for podcasts are the owner of the podcast MP3 – MP3 is a type of a sound file. It is a audio file. Podcast – People can share and download any podcast which is a series of a audio file. Segment –Podcasts such as news reports are broken up into segments that are of different topcis, or subtopics of an overall topic. These are often broken up by bumper music, teasers or advertisments. Tagline - memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product (like a film), or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product. (Catch phrase)  Teaser – it is like an advertisement of an upcoming show, either audio or visual. Record – to take the audio or a video and play it. Online – international. With other countries.

__**3) What tools are needed to make a podcast? Where can a podcast be placed on the Internet?** __ The tools that are needed to make a podcast is a microphone, a computer and a software to record the audio.The podcast that are made can be placed in a website by MP3 files and RSS.

Yodio: Free audio publishing service that you can add your voice to your photos.
 * __4) What sites or online applications help us create podcasts?__**

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