Using Garage Band (iLife ’08)

Presented by Kirsten HaugenDec. 2007

Creating a PodcastCreating a Podcast

Teacher-made

•Record classroom books

•Record instructions to use at home or school

•Support emerging readers

•Reinforce hard concepts

•Provide class news

Why Podcast?Student-made

•Readers’ Theater

•Reading fluency

•Interviews & discussions

•Music, poetry or speech performances

•Alternative way to create reports or take tests

Go to Ideas & Resources

Get Ready...• Choose a purpose for

your podcast!

•Decide on your audience

•Decide on time limits

•Draft an outline or template - check out the WillowWeb templates

•Write a script, if neededPractice ...or ad lib!

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•Make sure your computer is charged or plugged in

•Get comfortable and

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...GO!!! •Open

Garage Band from the Dock or Applications folder

• Choose Create New Podcast Episode...you may need to go to the File menu and choose New first!

Name & Save...• Save as:

YourName...no punctuation or spaces, and keep .band

• Plan where to save your project ...Garage Band?

...Desktop?

•Click Create

Look it over...

Record!

Check your work

Repeat as needed

•Click a segment & type delete to erase it

• Re-record or add more segments as needed

•Drag segments to new spots on the track

★ Experiment with other settings, such as markers!

Artwork & chapters

Artwork & chapters

1.click podcast track

2.click photos

3.choose an album

4.drag photos to timeline

5.drag photos and tracks along timeline

6.add episode artwork

7.add chapter titles (optional)

Convert to MP3...*

• From the Share menu, choose Export Podcast to Disk...

•Compress using: MP3 EncoderAudio Settings:Spoken Podcast

•Click Export

•Name & Save...

•Copy it... *You’ll need different instructions if you use iLife ‘06

• Copy to a jump drive or inexpensive mp3 player

•Drag to an email

• Send to iTunes & iPod

• Burn to a CD

• Submit to iTunes Store

★ Post to a blog

★ Create an RSS feed

Share your podcast

Listen...• Listen on your

computer, with or without headphones

• Sync to an iPod to listen while exercising, doing chores, etc.

• Listen during your commute, with ...great for kids with

long rides!

Find other podcasts

• epnweb.org/ - David Warlick’s Educational Podcast Network

• learninginhand.com/ - find, subscribe, listen & create; helpful templates

•www.kid-cast.com/KC_Podcasts.htm - podcasts by and for kids

• publicdomainpodcast.blogspot.com/ - stories in the public domain

•Mango Languages - learn a language!

• iTunes Store - K-12, foreign language, technology and more

Subscribe...From iTunes...

•Open iTunes and click iTunes Store

•Click Podcasts, then Education...

•Browse and preview

•Click subscribe - you’ll need an Apple ID!

From the Web...

★Choose an aggregator, like Google Reader (web-based) or JuiceReceiver (stand-alone software)

★Once you sign up or install the software, you can click any RSS or XML logo on a web page (or drag it to iTunes) to subscribe to it.more help...

Publish via iTunes

• In Garage Band, from the Share menu, choose Send Podcast to iTunes

• In iTunes, click the iTunes Store icon in the Source list.

• From the Choose Genre pop-up menu, choose Podcasts.

• Click Submit a Podcast button in the center of the screen.

• Note: The iTunes team reviews each podcast submission. It may take a week or two before your podcast is added.

• Learn more: www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302199

• http://tinyurl.com/22uuz3

Podcast Ideas...• Readers’ Theater –

aaronshep.com

• Poetry – poetryfoundation.org poetry.com

• Social stories –thegraycenter.org

• Instructions –allrecipes.comwww.instructables.com

www.wikihow.com

• Jokes –Knock-knock-joke.com

• Interviews – interview a book character

•Meta-podcast – teach others to make a podcast

• School rules – explain them to a new student

•Draw a card – choose event & character cards to make a story

Learn More...• jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Podcasting - valuable

examples & links

• www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com - a free, definitive guide

• www.kid-cast.com - helps kids create & publish podcasts

• Podcasting in Education - very comprehensive, a bit scatterered!

• www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/podcasting.html -

• www.google.com/support/feedburner/ - how to publish a podcast

• www.learnoutloud.com - audio & video, for free & subscription

Technology in the Classroom

• “Everybody does their best. Everybody gets what they need.”

• Universal Design - Providing multiple means of engagement, representation and expression

• Digital = Flexible (e.g. brainstorm > diagram > outline > draft > story)

• Possibilities - Learn to read, explore math, do research, make books & newspapers, record a podcast, write a blog

• Tools - Camera, scanner, mp3 play/record, SmartBoard, internet...

• Best of Both Worlds - add to, don’t replace, what’s in your toolkit

Presented by Kirsten Haugen (haugen@4j.lane.edu)www.kirstenhaugen.org (coming soon!)

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