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“Integrating Netcasting into the Classroom Experience“

“Integrating Netcasting into the Classroom Experience“. Rick Shelton M.Ed. Assistant Coordinator for Academic Services Center for Teaching and Learning Northeastern State University. Top 5 Reasons to Podcast. 5. Your Wollensak cassette recorder finally gave out

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“Integrating Netcasting into the Classroom Experience“

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  1. “Integrating Netcasting into the Classroom Experience“ Rick Shelton M.Ed. Assistant Coordinator for Academic Services Center for Teaching and Learning Northeastern State University

  2. Top 5 Reasons to Podcast 5. Your Wollensak cassette recorder finally gave out 4. Your pet has its own podcast and you don’t 3. You are not really sure why but ever since that nice neighbor left that pod in your laundry room you just feel the need to make one yourself 2. On vacation, you read a computer manual faster than those mortals who are reading John Grisham novels 1. You already bought a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard, microphone and mouse

  3. Overview • Netcasting in a nutshell • How do we make sense of it all? • What’s good about it? • What’s the downside? • Three Methods • iPod • Digital recorder • Windows Movie Maker • The Future

  4. Netcasting in a Nutshell

  5. What is Netcasting? • Netcasting, information is automatically delivered to users' desktops. 1 • The more generic term for netcasting is podcasting • Podcasts fall into two categories • Podcasts • Audio based presentations • Vodcasts • Video based presentations

  6. Content Types • Educators can use podcasting to provide students with course materials useable anytime • Podcasts deliver course content in audio, video, or graphic formats • Instructor created • Student created • Outside resource

  7. Instructor Created Podcasts • Lectures • Notices • Examples • Tutorials • Shows • Interviews • News • Etc.

  8. Student Created Podcasts • Class projects • Philosophies • News shows • Capstone projects • Portfolios • Interviews • Reflections • Discussions/debates

  9. The Peanut Butter and Jelly Experiment • Three person group • Each took turns • Reading • Filming • Doing • Three different instruction versions • Student • Grandmother • 5th grader

  10. Where did we go wrong? Miscommunication Assumptions Digital Divide Educators must educate and present ideas clearly.

  11. Outside Resources • Expert guest lecturers • Commercial broadcasts • Amateur broadcasts • News • Interviews • Shows • Etc.

  12. Websites • Focus on established websites • Beware of dubious websites • Try to use sites with • .edu • .gov • .org • .com sites are commercial • Others are personal in nature

  13. Podcasts • Education Podcast Network • http://epnweb.org/ • Podcasting news • http://www.podcastingnews.com/ • National Public Radio • www.npr.org • iTunes U • http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/

  14. Podcasts • Podcast.net • http://www.podcast.net/ • PodcastAlly • http://www.podcastalley.com/ • iPodder.org • http://www.ipodder.org/ • NASA • http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainbites/nasa • Podcast 411 • http://www.podcast411.com/

  15. Audio Book Podcasts • LibriVox -- Volunteer Voices, Classic Books • PodioBooks -- New, Original Science Fiction and Fantasy • Urban Art Adventures -- Classic 'Erotic' Audio Books • Maria Lectrix -- Public Domain Books with Catholic Themes • Dead White Males -- Public

  16. How do we make sense of it all?

  17. How do we make sense of it all? • Develop a plan • Stick to your basic plan • Build in flexibility • Technology cannot instruct • Technology is a tool, not a solution

  18. How do we make sense of it all? • Use reliable sites for video and audio content • Use content that fits the lesson • Be sure you have the software and hardware you need • Ask questions of your support staff

  19. What’s Good About It?

  20. What’s Good About It? • “Today’s digital kids think of information and communications technology (ICT) as something akin to oxygen: they expect it, it’s what they breathe, and it’s how they live.”1John Seely Brown

  21. What’s Good About It? • Emphasis is on content, not the instructor • Increases instructor’s resources • Students are familiar with medium • Learning is expanded beyond the classroom in real time • Most schools now have the needed infrastructure

  22. What’s Good About It? • Interactivity is increased • Instruction on the Internet accentuates the "student as worker" and the "teacher as coach" paradigms2 • Cost-to-benefit ratio is excellent

  23. What’s Good About It? • Basic equipment is all that is needed • Computer • Speakers • Internet access • Media players installed • Quicktime • Windows media player • Flash • A projector depending on classroom or lab • Digital recorders • Digital camera • Microphone

  24. What’s the Downside?

  25. What’s the Downside? • Many instructors fear technology • Feeling that students are more capable than instructor • You must be able to recognize good materials • Some work is required to sort the good from the bad • There are a lot of bad sites out there

  26. What’s the Downside? • Some sites may be down • Your network may be down • Virus threats from files • Tendency to treat technology as the solution • Technology choices seem overwhelming • Information could be dated

  27. Create Your Content

  28. Create Your Content • Content can be anything you like • Audio books • Music • Radio/TV type shows • Interviews • There's no formula for creating the content • The beauty of podcasting is that your shows can be anything that you want them to be

  29. Create Your Audio Content • It doesn't matter what platform or application you use to record the audio • Audacity - open source, cross-platform, free and let's you mix together multiple files • Windows Movie Maker – installed on XP operating systems with SP2 or greater • GarageBand - popular choice for Macintosh based computers

  30. Create Your Audio Content • Save the finished audio show at maximum quality in the native format • Convert the file to MP3 format • Increases portability • Save your MP3 files to your web server • Test them with any MP3 player • Files can go anywhere on your site • However you may want to put all of them into one directory

  31. Create Your Video Content • Tools needed • Digital video camera • Webcam • Computer • Editing software • Speakers • Microphone

  32. Create Your Video Content • Plan it out • Use a storyboard • Generalized script • Develop a theme or focus • Record your video • Edit the video • Produce and compress

  33. Three Methods

  34. Three Methods • iPod • Digital Recorder • Windows Movie Maker

  35. Audio Podcasts: iPod • With adapters you can record directly on your iPod • Stereo and mono • Variable quality

  36. Digital Recorder • Records anywhere • Uses software to transfer to computer • iTunes used for compression • Note: WMA files not recognized by iTunes currently

  37. Windows Movie Maker • Audio and video are imported • Placed into storyboard • Transitions and effects added • Additional Audio added • Produce the movie in desired format

  38. Windows Movie Maker

  39. Windows Movie Maker

  40. Lets Make a Podcast • Break up into groups of 4-5 • Discuss how an audio podcast can help inform your fellow faculty about this concept • As a group come up with a quick discussion to record what you would want to tell them • Record the audio

  41. The Future • Interactive podcasts • Vaestro • CrowdAbout • Waxxi • Second Life

  42. Vaestro

  43. CrowdAbout

  44. Waxxi

  45. Questions

  46. Other Resources • Podcasting@the University of Wisconsin – Madison Retrieved May 20, 2006 from http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/deliver/index.html • Make Your First Podcast. Podcasting News. Retrieved April 16, 2006 from http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/How-to-Podcast.html.

  47. Reference Sources • Tom Sheldons Linktionary http://www.linktionary.com/n/netcasting.html • Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn, by John Seely Brown • “The Effects of Internet-based Instruction on Student Learning” - Dr. Scott B. Wegner, Associate Professor • Impact of the Internet on Learning and Teaching - Hossein Arsham http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/MAR02_Issue/article01.html

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