Podcasting in the Classroom

August 6 & 8, 2007

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Carol Mayer, Wayne RESA

mayerc@resa.net 734-334-1423

Objectives

• Clearly describe podcasting• List numerous ways to use podcasting• Listen to podcasts• Locate and subscribe to podcasts• Understand steps to creating a podcast• Become familiar with basic recording and editing

functions of Audacity• Individually create original podcast episode

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What is a podcast?

• Like a radio broadcast, but transmitted over the Internet

• Podcast < iPod + broadcast• Podcast series can be subscribed to• Audio content on your computer• Can transfer to portable media device (iPod,

MP3 player, digital audio player (DAP))• Ability to subscribe distinguishes podcast from a

simple MP3 file download

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History of Podcasting

• First podcasts in 2004• 2005 word of the year -New Oxford American

Dictionary• 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3

players• 29% of them have downloaded podcasts• > 6 million adults subscribe to podcasts and

download onto portable media device• 30,000 people now creating podcasts

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Benefits of Podcasting

• Convenient - listen anytime, anywhere• Portable - download to portable media

device• New episodes automatically downloaded • Free (mostly)

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We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

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We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

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We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

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Remember…You Don’t Need an iPod

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Podcasting in Education

• Publish student work • Assess student learning• Distribute school assignments• Create archive of class lectures• Interview guest experts• Archive oral histories• Communicate with parents• Provide community outreach• Create audio tours• Provide public safety messages• Access personal and professional development

Podcasts for Students

Grammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mr. Langhorst's Web Classroom

- Speaking of History

The FrenchPodClass PodcastQuickTime™ and a

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Vocab Minute from The Princeton Review

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Podcasts by Students

Jamestown Elementary Podcasts

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Our City Podcast

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The Principal Podcast

Science Friday Podcasts

Connected Learning with David Warlick

The TechPod Zone

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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

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• Audio only• Enhanced podcast - includes chapters and

images of the places/things mentioned in the podcasts

Frederick Meijer Gardens Sculpture Park

• Video podcast -vodcast - video on demand podcast

National Geographic Wild Chronicles

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The Education Podcast Network

Podcast Alley

Yahoo Podcasts

iTunes - Download application to computer

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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

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• Preproduction - audience, script, music and sounds, practice

• Recording - microphone, audio software• Postproduction - editing• Publishing

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• Purpose of the show• Identify your audience• Live or mixed?• Format

– Journal - more conversational– Audio essay or commentary– Discussion– Sound seeing tours www.soundseeingtours.com– Other - music, plays, interviews, reviews

KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom, ©2007 Dan Schmit

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• Brainstorm or outline episode content• Create timeline or storyboard• Write script

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Segments

Transition Music

Theme Music Theme Music

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• Gather audio resources - music, stingers, sound effects, etc• Finalize script• Rehearse• Locate quiet area for recording

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“Quiet on the set!”

• Record voice audio from script• Options for recording

– Internal or external microphone– Headset with microphone– Portable recording devices– Cell phone - Gcast– Skypecasting

KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom, ©2007 Dan Schmit

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• Editing• Import music and sound effects• Add effects and normalize• Fine tune audio files• Export as MP3

KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom, ©2007 Dan Schmit

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• Upload file to server• Create RSS feed file

Or• Use Edublogs or Podomatic to host

your podcast

What’s a Podcast?by Craig Syverson