Motivating Today’s Digital Native with Podcasts

1. Motivating Today’s Digital Native with Podcasts Dr. Howie DiBlasi Director of Technology Durango School District I.S.T.E. Webinar Presentation 2007 howie@frontier.net 970-749-0760 www.toolsfortheclassroom.com

2. Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts

3. 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies: • Is it focused on student learning? • Are there observable results? • Does it meet the standards? • Can it show results? • Does it increase research skills? • Does it improve communication skills? • What about accountability? • Does it improve student collaboration • Does it help students communicate globally? • Does it help students deal with massive amounts of information? • Does it teach our students to be self-directed and understand how to organize more of their own learning? • Is it sustainable?

4. Willow Creek – 1st Grade

5. “We need to teach our students to be self-directed and understand how to organize more and more of their own learning”-Alan November

6. Why collaboration? • 21st Century Skill – preparation for a new marketplace • Promote engagement – kids are increasingly social and collaborative • High-level thinking skills • Student-centered; accessible • Multiple learning styles

7. Educator's Podcast GuideAuthor : Bard Williams • Finally—a technology that helps bridge the gap between content delivery and today's "digital native" students! An essential resource all educators interested in adding podcasting to the classroom.

8. PodcastsIn EducationWill Richardson:Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

9. Dan Schmidt currently has two books available as resources for teachers. These books will provide you with lots of background and tutorial material for implementing creative audio into your classroom or educational organization. They are more than simple tutorial books, they are filled with examples and activities to provide educators with the context they will need in order to position new technologies in their teaching.

10. 'Podcasting'. From Wikipedia:""Podcasting" is a web-based broadcast medium in which files are made available online in a way that allows software to automatically detect new files (generally via RSS), and download them. A podcast can be thought of an audio magazine subscription, in that a subscriber receives regular programs without having to remember to go get them, and can listen or watch them at leisure."

11. What is a podcast? 1. Term came from iPod and broadcasting 2. Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, (audio, videos, etc.) for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. 3. Podcasting is essentially like 'radio' and can be produced with a standard computer, microphone, software (often free), and a web site for posting your programming. 4. Podcasting can be heard or viewed with any computer or downloaded to a mobile device.

13. How do I distribute it or get it? "Podcasting is the automatic distribution of mp3s via RSS/XML files." iTunes or other web site- SUBSCRIBE  Can be downloaded to MP3 player (iPod-Zen Player-Iriver-Creative etc)

14. Where do I find Podcasts ?? • ·  iTunes – Mac or PC • ·        Internet • ·        Education Podcast Network http://epnweb.org/ • ·        iPodder.org http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/podcasts • ·        Podcast alley http://www.podcastalley.com/ • ·        LearnOut Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

15. podcast.net http://www.podcast.net/

17. Downloading/Saving Podcasts... • On computer • PC- right click, save link as...MP3 • Mac – hold mouse button down, save as

18. Let’s listen to a sample Podcast:Title: Marshall Jr. and Louise What year did you first go to school? Does Betsy visually create a picture for you?Can you identify what the situation is?Can you identify with the situation?

19. Listen to a sample Podcast:Does she visually create a picture for you?Can you smell the bacon?Can you see the pink lemonade?Can you identify what the situation is?Can you identify with the situation?What year did you first go to school? End Point #):14

20. Why Podcast ? • Podcasts allows students and teachers to publish audio to the Web, • Allows students to publish to a global community ... • Distribute information • Share performances • Improve verbal skills • Communicating with large numbers of people

21. What are the advantages of Podcasting for education? • Be able to use multiple learning styles to learn additional content • Learn 21st Century skills by using podcasts and by participating in creating them • Learn lifelong learning skills through self-directed learning, co-learning and facilitated learning with teachers and students • Adjust to various learner skills • Gain global perspectives by educators using other podcasts as part of their classes, • Develop critical analysis and reflection if educators create podcasts that explore deeper meanings of content. • Multimedia authoring • Address Multiple intelligence • All learners can be successful

22. Why Podcast ? • http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/item.php?itemID=9934

23. Why Podcast-…David Warlick • Podcasting makes publishing accessible • They provide a powerful, reachable voice • Content, is waiting for you whenever you have the time to consume it • There is a sense of connection when you hear someone’s voice • You can feel their emotion • You can sense how they feel about their subject matter

24. What to Podcast: • Tutorials, discussions between interviewers and experts, editorializing, • Classroom and student created content • Students creating reports • Authentic learning projects • Student dramatic performances • Teacher created materials • Students conducting oral histories and creating new presentation forms of them • Cross-cultural exchanges of political and cultural perspectives and issues –Global Connection • Advanced authentic learning projects

25. Ideas -Podcasting • Public Speaking • Student dramatizations • Skill development • Media literacy • Technology skills Scientific experiments • Social Studies reports • Writing • Poetry • Interviews • Foreign Language • Lecture and Notes • Concerts • News Broadcasts • Board Meetings

26. How many podcast listeners are there already? • More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players • 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing. • That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows internet "broadcasts" to be downloaded onto their portable listening device.

27. Room 208 Bob Spranklehttp://bobsprankle.com/blog/

31. Elementary School Memories • Now I'd like you to think back to an incident in grade school which you remember well....what was going on? • What are some other vivid memories of your elementary school years? • How were your grades in grammar school? • How did you spend your summers during grade school? • While you were growing up, did you have any sense of whether your family was rich or poor, and what would you say now about your family's economic circumstances when you were growing up? • Were you happy as a young child?

32. The Podship Huskerprise: By Dan SchmidtKidcast: Podcasting in the Classroom Narrator: Cyberspace. The final frontier. These • are the voyages of the podship Huskerprise. Our • mission, to seek out intelligent discourse, to • engage listeners in deep thinking and to boldly go • where no podcaster has gone before. • Captain: Star Date 1.6.06 We've entered a new • quadrant of cyberspace...a quadrant of unknown • potential. • 1st Officer: Captain, there's something up ahead. • It looks to be an MP3 file. • Captain: Mr. Microphone, try to tap into the • transmission. • Mr. M: Captain, wait...i need to update to the • latest version of iTunes. (pause) Ok... here it • comes.

33. KidCASTSample PODCAST

34. Best Education Podcasts by kids Radio WillowWeb is a podcast for kidsand by kids from the students at Willowdale Elemetary School in Omaha, Nebraska. http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/ • Jamestown Podcasts - Jamestown Elementary- Arlington, Virginia, • http://slapcast.com/users/Jamestown • Podcast Central -Mabry Middle School ( Ga>)podcasts • http://mabryonline.org/podcasts/ • Coulee Kids' Podcast - Longfellow Middle School - La Crosse, Wisconsin • http://www.sdlax.net/longfellow/sc/ck/index.htm

35. EPN- Educational Podcast Network • http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=63&openpod=16

36. Coulee Kids' Podcast - Longfellow Middle School - La Crosse, Wisconsin - seventh grade students

37. Listen in on the Podcast..click HERE

38. Podcast..3 easy steps • .

39. Creating your first Podcast • Plan the content • Who is you audience • Set up equipment • Record with an MP3 recorder or Audacity • Edit it with Audacity Garage band (Mac) • Edit your show-Take out dead air time, add music, opening and closing • -save as MP3 file • Export it as MP3 file • Upload it to a Podcast Server Create and publish your RSS feed • Tell the world

40. What Do I need ? • Script • Mike • Recorder-for MP3 files • Audio editor- Audacity • Sound Studio • Headphones • Podcast aggregator • Web Host

41. Philips 1GB MP3 Player • Features: • Wearable personal MP3 player with 2-line LCD display • 1GB built-in flash memory stores up to 450 songs • USB mass storage compliant • built-in digital voice recorder • 4 preset equalizer settings • high-speed USB 2.0 interface • Measures 1.12×3.27×0.87 inches (W x H x D) • Enjoy up to 8-hour music playback • Easy, intuitive music experience • Backlit LCD display • Folder Browsing to find your music fast • Enjoy MP3 and WMA playback • Make voice recordings

42. Philips 1GB MP3 Player • ProsAwesome sound, seven display colors, light-weight, inexpensive.ConsNo 'hold' button, controls revert to main screen too quickly.The Bottom LineLooking for an easy to operate MP3 player but don't want to spend a ton of money? The SA4010 is definitely the way to go.

43. Edirol R-09 Portable WAV/MP3 Recorder, 24-bit $399.00 • Features: • 24-bit/48kHz (or 44.1kHz) uncompressed recording • Up to 320kbps MP3 playback and recording • Records to SD card (64MB card included) • High-grade stereo condenser microphone built in • Mic and Line audio inputs; USB I/O • Easy operation, user-friendly graphic display • Ultra portable, half the size of the R-1 • Long battery life • USB Interface: Mini-B type connector. *USB 1.1/2.0 mass storage device class compatible

44. Using Audacity-PC and MAC • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

46. Do NOT FORGET THE LAME Encoder • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3

47. Adjust the Mike Input here

48. To record using AUDACITY-Click the RECORD button

49. Editing The Podcast –from a portable recorder.. copy the file from the Recorder to the Desktop