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Podcasts & RSS Feeds in the Classroom

Podcasts & RSS Feeds in the Classroom. What is this? How can these be used in my instruction?. Agenda. How do all our electronic solutions fit together? What are podcasts and RSS feeds ? How do I locate them? What do I do with them after I find them? How can they enhance my instruction?

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Podcasts & RSS Feeds in the Classroom

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  1. Podcasts & RSS Feeds inthe Classroom What is this? How can these be used in my instruction?

  2. Agenda • How do all our electronic solutions fit together? • What are podcasts and RSS feeds? • How do I locate them? • What do I do with them after I find them? • How can they enhance my instruction? • What’s the next step? This PowerPoint and All Materials for This Class are found on http://insttech.tulsaschools.org

  3. Sample Video Podcasts  Personal Professional Development Diversity Podcast Instructional Teacher Created Samples Figurative Language Podcast Secondary Math Student Created (instructional OR demonstration of learning) Elementary Math Secondary Math

  4. Sample Audio Podcasts Great Site for Free Audio Podcasts Learn Out Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#directory You Can Search by Topic Kipling Poem “If” Eleanor Roosevelt Address the General Assembly

  5. Great Podcast Websites Podcast.Com Channels http://education.podcast.com/ National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Education Podcast Network http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=11&openpod=16#anchor16 http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=190&openpod=16#anchor16

  6. What is a Podcast? iPod Broadcast Podcast

  7. Podcast is Just a Digital File Audio Format Sound Only 2 Types of Podcasts Video Format Audio and Video

  8. But I Don’t Have an iPod! Play the audio or video podcasts on…

  9. What is So Great About Podcasting? Any Time Any Where Learning

  10. Where Do Podcasts Come From? • Hundreds of Thousands are on the Web • Most Major Websites (NASA, etc.) • Educational in Nature: Great PD Opportunity • A Manner to Share Information—valuable and not-so-valuable • Anyone Can Create and Share—on the web or through another means You Tube and Teacher Tube

  11. Questions?

  12. iTunesThousands of Educational Podcasts iTunes is a Free Download http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iTunes Gathers Podcasts From Hundreds of Websites And Puts Them in the iTunes Store—These are FREE

  13. iTunes Home Page

  14. Thousands of Podcasts • Filter by: • Video Podcasts • Audio Podcasts • Topically

  15. Click to get More information About the podcast Click to Download The FREE Podcast Double Click To Play Podcast

  16. Participant Activity Open iTunes on Your Desktop Explore the Podcast Area

  17. I Found Some Great Resources…Now What Do I Do?

  18. Options You Can Just Listen to Them Within iTunes Or You Can Download Them From iTunes

  19. Your iTunes Library Everything you download first Goes here. Your Playlists You can build topical playlists

  20. When Podcast is Downloading… Download Symbol is Rotating

  21. Participant Activity Download 2 Podcasts of Your Choice

  22. Now What?Where Did They Go? • Click on “Podcasts” in your Library • In Menu Bar, go to Edit>Preferences This location can be Changed at any time

  23. Today You Downloaded 2 Podcasts They went to the hard drive on the computer you are on now. Let’s take them from this hard drive and put them on your U Drive

  24. Participant Activity • On Your U Drive, make a folder called “Podcasts” • Navigate to the podcasts which you just downloaded onto the hard drive of your computer • Right click on the file • Send to > the Podcast folder you made on your U Drive

  25. How Do I Share These With My Students? Option 1: Upload Them To Your Class Website! (Consider file size) Uploading Files to Your SharpSchool Website is Covered in SharpSchool Module 2!

  26. But I Don’t Have Time to Continually Check iTunes for New Releases!

  27. PART 2

  28. That Brings Us to Another OptionOn How To Share These PodcastsWith Your Students RSS Feeds

  29. Up Until Now… We have talked about locating podcasts for classroom and/or professional development purposes. We’ve located them on individual websites and in iTunes. We’ve done all the work looking for podcasts. Now we are going to learn how to automatically pull in podcasts AND other content-related resources

  30. RSS Feeds in Plain English

  31. What is an RSS Feed? Really Simple Syndication Subscribe You

  32. When You Subscribe… As a Person Posts a New Podcast to Their Website, You Get It Downloaded Automatically if You Have Subscribed to the Podcast Same Concept of a Magazine Subscription

  33. How Do I Manage All These Podcasts Which I Subscribe To??

  34. iTunes Is One Option for audio and video podcasts because there is no limit on how many subscriptions you can have

  35. iTunes is a “Compiler” or “Aggregator” For Audio and Video Podcasts

  36. Subscribing to Listed in iTunes • Find a Series • Click on “Subscribe”

  37. Managing Your Subscriptions

  38. Frequency to Check for Downloads on Subscriptions Settings by Series or Settings for All Podcasts Which Episode to Download How Many to Keep on Your Hard Drive

  39. What if I Find Podcasts on the Web That I Like But They Aren’t Listed in iTunes? You can force iTunes to pull them in but you have another option…just download them to your hard drive or external storage device

  40. Participant Activity Searching the Web for Podcasts Google Search Samples “children reading podcasts” “Science experiment podcasts” “math podcasts” Etc.

  41. Can I Save Podcasts Without Subscribing to Them? Take iTunes out of the Picture. You can just locate podcasts and save them to your hard drive!

  42. Yes! Even Without Going Through iTunes. Just Locate a Podcast and Then Save It to Your Hard Drive • Most Podcasts Are Downloadable • Point Cursor to “Play” or “Download” • Right Click • “Save Target As…” • Save to Your Selected Location

  43. Up Until Now… We have been talking about locating podcasts, subscribing to them through iTunes if you wanted to, or just locating podcasts and downloading them to your hard drive. But iTunes doesn’t handle just text items you want to subscribe to—like news feeds, website updates, etc.

  44. What About Subscribing to aWebsite?I want to know when a website is updated…I want the news delivered to me…I want to follow an educational blog…

  45. Bringing News Feeds into Your SharpSchool Website:Practice ActivityGo tohttp://www.classroommanagement101.com/blog/ Participant Activity

  46. Follow These Steps to Add to Your Class Website Always Look for an RSS Subscribe Link Search for the URL of the Feed Adding an RSS Feed to Your SharpSchool Page (Handout)

  47. Follow-Up to This Class • Consider Creating Your Own Podcasts • Consider Having Your Students Create Podcasts: Instructional or Demonstration of Learning • Enroll in “Creating Audio Podcasts” • Enroll in “Creating Video Podcasts” • Consider Posting Podcasts on Your Class Website

  48. Reflection How Can Podcasting Support Your Curriculum?

  49. Atomic Learning Podcast Videos • What is a podcast? http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/32619/play • Anatomy of a Podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/32620/play • iTunes and podcasts http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/18118/play • Setting preferences for itunes handling podcasts http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17973/play • Downloading individual episodes of a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17977/play • Detailed info on a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17979/play • Unsubscribing to a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17978/play • iTunes gathering podcasts automatically for you http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17966/play • Adding an address of an RSS feed when you have the URL – in the Advanced menu http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17975/play

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