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Blackboard: Podcasting Course Content

Learn how to create, edit, and publish podcasts for academic use. Explore benefits, concerns, and steps involved in podcasting. Enhance your course content with engaging audio and video materials.

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Blackboard: Podcasting Course Content

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  1. Blackboard: Podcasting Course Content For existing Blackboard users interested in adding audio or video content to a course. This content can be made available to students in a course only, or shared with the world through iTunes U. David Wicks | Assistant Professor | Director of Instructional Technology Services | Seattle Pacific University | dwicks@spu.edu

  2. Overview

  3. Web 2.0 Technologies

  4. Podcasting • Short for “iPod broadcasting” • Audio/video files are posted on the internet • Students can subscribe to feed so files are automatically downloaded as they become available

  5. True or False? A podcast must be played back on an iPod. False, It can be played back on an iPod or another MP3 player. Any computer with audio capabilities can play a podcast

  6. Open Content and iTunes U

  7. Podcatcher Client software or player for podcasts Used to download and aggregate podcasts Synchronizes with iPod or MP3 player Technology: RSS feed

  8. Basic Steps • Create • Edit • Publish

  9. Is podcasting easy? • Producing podcast may be easy if satisfied with “first take” • Tools

  10. Benefits Unlimited replays Instant guest lecturer May be a way to increase in-class discussion Creates a “theatre of the mind” “Explaining Voice” Campbell, G. (2005). There's something in the air: Podcasting in Education. EDUCAUSE Review , 33-46.

  11. Concerns Intellectual Property Open Source Content Digital divide? Increases skipping?

  12. Basic Steps • Create • Edit • Publish

  13. Creating a Podcast

  14. Editing a Podcast • Have ITS edit audio • Edit it yourself using QuickTime Pro or Audacity • Think about: • What should be included in a podcast? • Meta data

  15. Publishing a Podcast • Have ITS upload it to iTunes U for public viewing • Upload content to Blackboard course using Podcast LX http://www.spu.edu/itunes/images/submit_course_lecture.pdf

  16. How to link to an existing iTunes U file To create a URL to a specific FILE on iTunes U (to the actual .mp3), follow these directions: • Right-click on the TAB that contains the file in iTunes U • Click "Copy iTunes Store URL" • Paste the URL into internet explorer https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/spu.edu.1170867139.01170867146 • Change the word "Browse" in the URL to "Feed" and hit enter to go to the site https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/spu.edu.1170867139.01170867146 • Find the link to the file you want, right-click on it, and click "copy shortcut“ You now have a URL to the actual file independent of iTunes.

  17. Review

  18. Questions? its@spu.edu 206.281.2170

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