Topic Relevance through Current Events and Podcasting

1. Topic Relevance through Current Events and Podcasting Presenter: Ken Baldauf Program in Interdisciplinary Computing - FSU

2. FSU’s NewProgram in Interdisciplinary Computing Working to raise the level of computer competence across all disciplines at FSU by: • Designing new computing and technology courses that address discipline-specific needs. • Enabling existing computing and technology courses to be opened up to non-majors. • Assisting teachers in injecting technology concepts and content into existing courses.

3. Why consider technology-based exercises in non-tech courses? • Provides access to subject-related materials from numerous sources • Opens opportunities for information sharing • Brings relevance to subject matter • Engages students in subject matter through different media • Sharpens tech skills making students more marketable • Allows students to innovate!

4. Inspiration for Presentation http://coursecasts.course.com

5. Topic Relevance through Current Events and Podcasting SOCIAL BOOKMARKS NEWS FEEDS Researching Current Events Sharing Discoveries RSS PODCASTS Broadcasting News and Views

6. Real Simple Syndication • Allows users to subscribe to Web content that is periodically updated including text (blogs, news feeds), audio (podcasts), and video. • Empowers users to become publishers. RSS

7. Researching Current Events Using News Feeds

8. RSS News Feed • News stories supplied by an online news service streamed automatically to software designed to organize and display the stories – a feed reader or aggregator. • Many news feeds can be aggregated for convenient access to topics of interest.

9. Setting up an RSS Feed Reader (Aggregator) • www.google.com/reader

10. Look for the Icon • Subscribe to content by finding reference to RSS on the source Web site. • Click to subscribe

11. Scan News Headlines • Scan news headlines from all your favorite sources from one location. • Drill down into stories that are of interest. • Bookmark best stories for further research.

12. Sharing Discoveries Social Bookmarking

13. Social Bookmarking • Social bookmarking sites like delicious.com are designed for collecting and sharing Web content. • Web content is tagged and kept private or shared.

14. Social Bookmarking • Use unique tags to share bookmarks in a class. • Tag pages can also serve as RSS feeds.

15. Broadcasting Your Views Podcasting

16. Podcast • An audio (or video) broadcast distributed over the Internet using RSS. • Examples: iTunes Store

17. Necessary Equipment • Software • Windows: Audacity • Mac: GarageBand • Hardware • USB Mic/Headphones

18. Developing a Script • A script serves several purposes: • Allows for a smooth, unfaltering delivery of the dialogue • Provides a teacher with a way in which to grade content, provide feedback, check against turnitin.com • Provides a text alternative for deaf and hearing-impaired individuals

19. Recording • Dialogue can be recorded one phrase at a time with retakes as needed. • Multi-track recording allows you to layer music and sound effects under the dialogue.

20. Publishing • Save as mp3 format • Publish through Blackboard Content Collection in a public “podcast” folder. • Access finished podcast as follows: • From iTunes or Google Reader subscribe to http://podcast.fsu.edu/username • or supply direct access to the URL of the Content Collection pagehttps://campus.fsu.edu/bbcswebdav/users/kbaldauf/podcast/

21. Thank You! • Questions? • Useful Links • Google Reader: www.google.com/reader • Delicious: www.delicious.com • FSU’s Joe Clark instructs on podcasting in Blackboard - http://myweb.fsu.edu/joeclark/workshop/podcasting/podcast_via_bb.doc • FSU’s Dr. Lisa Tripp’s podcasting assignment from LIS5313 - http://lis5313.ci.fsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Media_Exercise_4includes “PodSafe” Audio Resources

22. Podcasting • Software • Audacity Software (Windows/Mac/Linux): http://audacity.sourceforge.net • Video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrBbczS9I0 • GarageBand for Mac: http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband • Headphones/Mic • Plantronics GAMECOM 1 PC HEADSET ( 67003-01 ) ($23) • Podcast Listings • Tunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html • Podcast Alley - http://www.podcastalley.com • Podcast.com - http://podcast.com • Podcast Directory - http://www.podcastdirectory.com • Podcasting Services • Blogger can be used to enclose an MP3 in a feed but not as a host -http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=80259&topic=12535 • FeedForAll (RSS Creator) - http://www.feedforall.com • Open Source: Podcast Generator - http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net • Liberated Syndication (all-in-one) - http://www.libsyn.com • Feed Burner (Podcast Promoter) - http://www.feedburner.com • Create XML file for RSS - MP3 is included in an RSS feed as an "enclosure” • http://www.podcastdirectory.com/help/createxml.php • http://web.mit.edu/ist/podcasts/makepodcast.html • Online Tutorials • http://web.mit.edu/ist/podcasts/makepodcast.html • http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/podcast.html • http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/podcasting/howto.php • http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Podcast