Publishing a podcast to Bengal space

This tutorial is for Mac users. Most J-School students use Apple computers, so this will be written from the Mac side of things.

Part One: Getting onto your Bengal space

First, let’s figure out how to log in to your Bengal space. Every MU student is allotted Web hosting space and has access to free software to upload files. The free software MacSFTP can be downloaded for free from the IAT Services Software Distribution site.

Log in using your pawprint and password.
Click on the green link for Software at the top of the page.
Pull the first dropdown menu to select MacSFTP OSX, and click Go.
Click the orange Get It! button to download the software.
Once your download is complete, and you’ve installed the program, open the program. Choose File>New Connection…
The hostname will be bengal.missouri.edu, and your username and password are just your pawprint and password. It should look like this:

Click Connect. After you do, there may be an error message, but just click OK.
A new window should open up with some files called .bashrc and others. Double-click on the www folder. This is where you can upload your podcast. The easiest way to upload any file is to simply drag it from your documents folder or desktop directly into this window.
To find the exact Web address of the file you uploaded, go to http://www.missouri.edu/~pawprint/ (substituting your pawprint in for the word “pawprint”). A rudimentary list of directories will pop up. This is where you find the exact address of the file you uploaded.

Part Two: Making a podcast

I’m not exactly sure the easiest way to do this, but I think I would use GarageBand, the software that comes with the Mac. Apple has a tutorial about how to format the podcast on its site [GarageBand - Recording Your Podcast]. I will follow those steps when creating my first podcast. Clyde’s idea to record it in Microsoft Word using the Word Notebook feature would work too. But I would personally like to try out GarageBand because it seems pretty neat.
I’ll update this post with more information about exactly how to do the podcast when I get around to putting mine up. Until then, you know how to publish files to your Bengal space.