Course description
This course teaches you how to plan and create your own blog and podcast. Through hands-on exercises, you will discover the benefits of using free web tools like Blogger, WordPress, Audacity, and YouTube. Learn how to develop a plan for the content, setup, maintenance, and how to use free blogging software like Blogger and WordPress to put that plan into action. Explore how to record a professional-sounding audio podcast with a simple recording tool. Learn to edit the file with another free software program, add music to it, and then post it online. Discover how to record a video podcast, edit it, add special effects, drop in a podcasting-safe music file, and then publish it online.
Course details
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Choose from instructor-moderated or self-guided courses designed to fit your schedule. Build professional skills, explore a new interest, or advance your career with convenient online learning.
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Registration dates
Not all courses are offered each term.
Fall 2026 registration is open.Winter 2027 registration opens November 2, 2026.
Delivery options
In person: classes held in person on a campus/site in a classroom/lab/shop/studio for the course duration
Online - Asynchronous: 100% online delivery, no scheduled day or time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Online - Synchronous: 100% online delivery, scheduled day and time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Hybrid: any combination of in person, timetabled, on campus, online, and hyflex delivery