Know your P’s & Q’s

Podcasting and a Queue of New Technology.

Paige JaegerCoordinator of School Library Services

Washington Saratoga Warren Hamilton Essex BOCES Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

NYLA Conference 2008

People will come to love …technologies that undue their

capacities to think. -- Brave New World

- Huxley , 1942

Why are we talking to you about this?

Who are your Patrons?

Reaching Today’s Patron!

The Big Shift…• From tool…`

• To appendage… July 18, 1994

What is Podcasting?

• The latest in on-the-go, on-demand technology.

•Radio Programs•TV Shows•Audio Books •.transferred to an iPod or other digital media player.

What equipment do I need?

• a computer (PC or Mac), • podcasting software • Internet connection. • For portability, an iPod or other digital media player is needed.

Why is this important?

•1 in 10 adults own an MP3 player (22 million people)

•20% of citizens under the age of 30 have an MP3 player

•In 2004 a Google search podcast-turned up 3,300 hits

•In 2007…177,000,000

•Apple has sold 10 million iPods

• Apple controls 90% of the market

• Estimates claim there are 33 million MP3 players and another 600 million cell phones with MP3 capability

How do I get started?

•Content Receiver…

•Content Producers…

Content Receiver …

RSS feed icon …

RSS = • Real Simple Syndication

• An RSS “Feed” has:

A channel

A link

A description that leads

you to…

Food !

RSS Feeds … • Really Simple Syndication

• XNL = eXtensive markup language

Right mouse click an check the feed properties! – Most often the default is set at 200 days delivery!

http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/

• Content producer:

• Do I have to own an ipod to podcast?

• An MP3 player?

• Computer?

• Internet access?

• Audacity or Garageband? (software)

• Microphone

• Video camera (for video podcasting).

• Webcam… & other tools…

                           

WHAT DOES PODCASTING SOUND LIKE?WHAT DOES PODCASTING SOUND LIKE?

Uses for … podcasting…

Library News Announcements

InterviewsMuseum toursBook Hotline!

Study Casts/Test Process Interviews

Book reviewsParent communication

Foreign Language practiceTutorials

Special eventsPoetry recitals Audio booksClass updates

int

Download.com

Mac version … Photobooth

Get Smart, research video… Evidence based outcome.

Screen Directions… • Camtasia ($) or… Camstudio (open)

Your Turn …• Yo homies, what up?

What up with you?What we gonna say?What we gonna do?Where we gonna go?What we gonna see?We’re goin’ toThe Library.

• I’m moving down the aisle with my homies in towWe’re groovin’ in the home of the librarian (yo!)She checks us out from behind thick glassesWe walk right past and we wiggle our asses.

• Hemingway, Lawrence, Chekhov and MillerFitzgerald was a freak, Mailer is a killer

• Quiet please!Quiet please!

• The silence is goldenTo books I am beholdenI know I’m bad,‘Cuz of the knowledge that I’m holdin’!

• And I give you one warnin’There will be no repeats:Get out of my faceWhile I’m readin’ my Keats.

• http://davidrothman.net/2006/11/29/sliders-library-rap/

Where can I host my podcast?

• Podomatic.com

• Library website – link to account/site

• WMHT – Powermediaplus.com ( Katherine Jetter)

• Feedburner

• Blog sites… etc.

• http://librarydoor/listen.htm

Non-commercial…

Creating a Feed … 1. Original Content

2. Post Content on Website

3. Blog which links to content (because XML feed language was originally for blogging).

4. Itunes account… linked to blog

5. Embedded XML language…

Windows Movie Maker … •What can it do?

Movie maker sample 2

Digital Storytelling

•Pictures and Audio presentation.

•Moviemaker… “capture” audio

•Powerpoint …add sound to slides with scanned pictures.

A quick look some new tools :

• Free ebooks @ Gutenberg.org

• BOCES starting to subscribe

• Become acquainted with your public library resources.

• Splurge on an MP3 player.

• “Playaway”

(Follett brand)

E-books & Audios…

Talking Books http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp

New Tools Coming Soon…

Wiki… Moveable type • Moveable Type, one major provider of

“blogging” and “wiki” software. Applied to “host” computer. Licenses needed for each user.

• Good, simpler alternative is a tool with Blackboard. If your school uses blackboard, insert the option…

• Free sites on the web are EASY

Next.yahoo.com

Federated Searching?

Earthlets…. And other out-of-print

books:

• Use those LCD projectors!

• Use those scanners!

• Scan material that used to go on overheads…

•The Fog Index indicates the number of years of formal education required to read and understand a passage of text. •The Flesch Index another indicator of reading ease. 100 being easiest to read. Scores between 90 and 100 are appropriate for 5th and 6th graders, while a college level is a score between 0 and 30. •The Flesch-Kincaid tries to relate the Flesch score to a U.S. grade level.

New uses for old tools. • Microsoft WORD… grammar check.

• Tools options spelling & grammar