Podcasting in Education

1. Podcasting in Education

2. Why go Podcasting?

3. Why go Podcasting?

4. Educational Uses of Podcasts • Sound Seeing Tours • Daily Reporter • Student Almanac • Process Streams • Study Guides • Sound Stories • Podcast Dramas • Poetry Slams

5. Educational Uses of Podcasts • Our View • Today in History • Remediation for slower learners • Extension activities • Assistance for students with disabilties • Book Talk • Spelling Bee • Pod Pals • Replace leturing

6. Then Now

7. What is a Podcast?

8. Types of Podcasts Radio Shows News Shows Museum Tours

9. And of Course…Education

10. Types of Podcasts Podcasts can be about any topic… …and can last for hours or minutes.

11. How do you listen? OR OR

12. Where do I find Podcasts?

13. What do I need? Good Hardware Options $ • Go to Froogle.com • Search “mp3 voice recorder” • Sort from Low to High

14. What do I need? Better Hardware Options $$ • At least 1 GB • Line in jack • Adjustable Levels • Small size • $75-$300+ iRiver 899 Video iPod w/Belkin Microphone Creative Zen Nano Plus

15. What do I need? Best Hardware Options $$$ • Stereo microphone • Live monitoring • Multiple save formats • Removable media • Multiple microphone inputs • $300-$500 Marantz PMD660 Edirol R09

17. Making your own…

18. Making your own… • Choose a topic • Create a script • Record the Podcast • Produce and Publish

19. Choosing a Topic Given the diversity of culture and the breadth of the curriculum as well as individual experiences, the number of topics are limitless

20. Creating a Script • Challenge #1 • Taking all of the information and editing it down to the appropriate length • Challenge #2 • Writing a script that is compelling and paints a descriptive picture that tells the story in in the listeners mind

21. Audacity – PC and Mac

22. Download Audacity Installer

23. Download LAME File

24. Download LAME File NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU SAVE THE LAME FILE SOMEWHERE YOU WILL NOT DELETE

25. Once you have downloaded the Lame File you will still need to extract the file. By completing this task now you will save yourself a step later

26. Understanding Your Audacity Screen

32. Step 1 Record your voice by clicking the red record button and speaking into the microphone Step 2 When you are finished recording press the yellow stop button Step 3 Rewind and listen to your recording by pressing the purple rewind key and green play key

33. If you mess up simply click the X for the audio track to delete This one is dedicated to all those with writer’s block

34. Importing Background Music and Effects After you have downloaded your audio file, simply drag and drop your audio file in or click “Project” “Import Audio” and search for your file. Note, some files are in stereo and will show up as 2 different audio lines

35. Here I have added a music file to play in the background. What I want to do is start the music strong, fade down, then fade back up. For this we will use the “Pincher” a.k.a “Envelope Tool”

36. By clicking your mouse you will create little dots. You will be able to “duck”/“envelope”/“fade”/“decrease” the music levels

37. Shifting Audio You can shift your audio and sound effects to the desired location, by using the Time Shift Tool Button

38. Saving and Exporting If you want to save your project and continue working later, click “File” “Save Project” If you are finished, it is time to “Export As MP3”

39. Exporting MP3 for the First Time If you choose to “Export as MP3” You will be prompted to find the lame file. You will only need to do this once.

40. This one is dedicated to all those struggling readers

41. Editing Audio To edit out errors, click the “I” and highlight the section you want to delete. Click delete

42. Editing Audio To edit out errors, click the “I” and highlight the section you want to delete. Click delete

44. Additional Resources Sounds and Effects Free Music

45. Where to upload your podcasts for free…. • Audio Podcasts

46. Listen Up • Educational Podcast Sites • iTunes • Historical Podcasts • TEDTalks • TechTeachers • Astonomy 161

47. Listen Up • Classroom Examples • Room 208 (http://bobsprankle.com/blog/) • Radio Willow Web (http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/) • TechSavvy Girls (http://web.mac.com/tntnzing/iWeb/techsavvygirlz/Podcasts/Podcasts.html) • Teachers Sharing • Women of Web 2.0 (http://www.womenofweb2.com/) • Teach42 (http://www.teach42.com/) • Grammar Girls (http://grammar.qdnow.com/)

48. Additional Resources In addition to the great resources provided by unitedstreaming these other resources are exemplary media sites. Music • www.garageband.com • http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ • http://ccmixter.org/ • Speeches and Narrations • http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html • http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/ • http://www.archive.org/index.php • www.librivox.org • www.gutenberg.org • http://creativecommons.org/audio Sounds & Sound Effects • http://www.findsounds.com/ • http://www.smartsound.com/ • http://www.naturesongs.com/ • http://soundamerica.com/ • Videos • http://www.kitzu.org/ • http://www.archive.org/index.php • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html • Pictures • www.pics4learning.com

49. When Will You Start Podcasting? Brad Fountain brad_fountain@discovery.com