Transcript Educational Podcasting

Educational
Podcasting
Paul McMahon
Learning Solutions Asia
Limited
Examples of Educational Podcasts
• Lit2Go: Audio Files for K-12
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
• BBC Learning English Site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningeng
lish/
• BC/BBC Teaching English Site
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/(not Pdcsts)
• Podcasts in English (not Free)
http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/
• Lots of EdTech ones!
What about the student voice?
• Human Biology 12 Podcast Assignment
http://web.mac.com/blitto/Blittos_Stuff/HB12_P
odcast_Assign..html
• Room 208 (2005-2006)
http://bobsprankle.com/blog/
• Educating the Digital Generation Podcasts
http://www.paulfuller.com.au/EducatingTheDigi
talGeneration/Podcast/Podcast.html
Finding Podcasts
• Podcast Directory
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
• Podomatic http://podomatic.com/
• Podcast.net/Juice Receiver
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
• iTunes is by far the best known!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Like google, it is possible to search for adult
content!
Subscribing Vs Listening
• You can
choose
what
episodes
you want or
you can
subscribe
and have
each one
delivered
“hot and
fresh!”
How to Podcast
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The podcasting process can be seen as 5 Ps:
Prepare – gather together your content
Perform – 3-2-1, click and record
Produce – edit, add sounds and music
Publish – publish to the internet
Promote – tell others what the link is so that
they can subscribe and listen
Prepare
• This can be done by simply using word or any
other text editor to write out a script.
• Sometimes free form comments are recorded
but students are not so good or confident to
speak without some prepared notes.
Perform
• Capturing the audio can be done direct to the
computer or remotely by voice recorder/MD
recorder etc.
• Microphones/headsets and USB devices can
make a huge difference.
Produce
• Podium/Audacity
• Usually very easy for students and teachers to
pick up.
• Background music and effects can make a real
difference http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
http://www.findsounds.com/
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
• Remember to compress and save as, probably,
an mp3 file.
Publish
• There is a lot to know about here. (Hopefully
your technician will take care of all of this for
you!)
• If you need the information, go to this link:
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm
Promote
• Need to have an XML feed for RSS.
• This is done easily via Easy Podcast
http://www.easypodcast.com/ or Poderator
http://www.poderator.com/
• This feed needs to be published to your site or
sent to potential subscribers as an email.
All Encompassing Solutions
• Really only suitable for short, low bandwidth
podcasts. Also adult content problems.
• Examples http://abruce.podomatic.com/ ,
http://odeo.com/audio/2053982/view
Podium
• The great advantage of this product is that it
will do the whole 5 steps in the one application.
•Nothing else on
the windows
platform does this
as easily but
“Garageband” on
the Mac platform
does most of this
as well.
Configuration Settings
• You can keep the settings on your trial account
for Podium but if you want a local site for
practice with freeware:
• ftp account:
host: embtest.fwg.hk
folder: /
user: edbpodcast
password: abc123
web page showing the uploaded file,
http://embtest.fwg.hk/edbpodcast/
Thank you for listening!
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Paul McMahon
Learning Solutions Asia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: W: 81702808 M: 91705605
PowerPoint
http://iclassroom.hkedcity.net/teacher/teacher9
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