Getting Started with Podcasting November 2006

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Getting Started withPodcastingNovember 2006

• Vic Divecha
• eLearning Specialist
• School of Public Health
• Public Health Library Informatics

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Podcasting 1 FAQ

• Do I need an iPod or other Portable Player?
• No!

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Learning Goals

• Get to know the podcasting environment at SPH
  UM
• Podcasting Examples from Univs
• Podcast via Ctools iTunes Tool
• Podcasting on the Windows Platform
• Recording in Audacity
• Adding Metadata in iTunes
• Resources to get started

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Podcasting at SPH

• Fall 2005 Experimental Podcasting of Vic
  Strechers HBHED600 class
• 25 of the students listen to the class podcasts
• deriving an average of 85 of the of the
  experience of a classroom when listening in
  conjunction to viewing accompanying slides
  downloaded from CTools
• Winter 2006 Podcasting Leon Wyszewianskis HMP
  601 and Vic Strechers HBHED651
• NOW New Executive Masters Programs in EHS / HMP
  100 of streaming video materials available as
  video podcasts, besides on CDs and via CTools

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Podcasting at UM

• UM is emerged as a leader in higher education
  Podcasting
• iTunes U
• Dentistry Informatics Apple
• Now available to UM Community
• Other Universities
• Duke iPods for incoming freshmen
• Stanford iTunes Store

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Podcasting Applications Audiences

• Field Journals
• On the road Supervisors, Employees Subordinates
• Record Publish Quality Interviews-on-the-fly
• Traditional Digital Recorders
• PETER MENARDS STORY
• Report while attending a conference Supervisors,
  Employees Subordinates
• Guided Facility Tours for Visitors
• Driving Directions Why not silly -
• - prevents nausea- allows people to use their
  attention properly
• Audio of Required Readings for Course/Seminar
• Personal podCast to your family friends,
  receive feedback and comments. Stay in touch
  asynchronously between phonecalls.

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Applications Alumni Continuing Education Gifts
Professors expert speak on the content of the
subjects they teach, and alumni subscribe to
it. This may encourage people who have taken the
courses a while back to come back and take
refresher courses or get another degree! This
would be a way of fundraising too.
http//www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/10/
28/news/13652.shtml
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Diversion Who is Podcasting?
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Popular Narrowcasting
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No Seriously Who is Podcasting?
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Academia Stanford
"Stanford has been fortunate to partner with
Apple in a project that allows us to share the
intellectual and cultural life of the university
with our alumni," said Howard Wolf, vice
president for alumni affairs and president of the
Stanford Alumni Association. "We are especially
pleased that the project's focus is to deliver
substantive content that so clearly supports the
university's mission of teaching, learning and
research both in the classroom and to our
thousands of alumni around the world."

http//www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/10/sta
nford_univer.html
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Politics, Radio
http//features.governor.ca.gov/index.php/podcast/
rss/
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Finding Podcasts Dentistry Resource
Pagehttp//www.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/resources/gu
ides/podcast.html
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Apples iTunes U Guide

• http//images.apple.com/support/itunes_u/docs/iTun
  es_U_User_Guide.pdf
• Preparing a Course for iTunes U
• Organizing Course ContentProviding Links to
  Other InformationPreparing Content
• Logging In to Your iTunes U Site About the
  Course Page About Tabs Editing a Course
  Page Assigning Access Privileges to Tabs
  Adding Links to the Course Page Uploading
  Content to the Course Page Understanding How
  Metadata Works
• About Metadata Substitution and Download Rules
• Adding a Course Image to the Course Page
  Podcasting Logging Out of iTunes U

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Hands On iTunes U in CTools
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Your Page in iTunes
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Getting Into Edit Mode
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Edit Podcast Title/Description
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Upload Files
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Make it Pretty!
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Before Uploading AudioConvert to MP3/AAC in
iTunes
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Before Uploading VideoConvert to MPEG-4 / H.264
QuicktimePro Jodix
Free Fairly Reliable Batch Production Easy Takes
WMV, RealMedia
30 Reliable Batch Production Hard Wants AVIs on
Windows
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Edit Metadata in iTunes
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File UploadingAudioVideo
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Access

• Dropbox Shared Tabs Allow students/participants
  to share their files and collaborate

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Power Use

• Organize Tabs
• Content Tabs Download Only
• Student Work / Shared Tab
• Drop Box Assignments (Only uploader
  instructor can see files)
• Add PDFs
• Add Links

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Lets Go Pro Out of the Box

• M-Audio Podcast Factory for WinXP
• Doesnt make podcast creation quite as painless
  as it could be. 200

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Lets go, a little Pro

• Standalone USB
• Samsung YP-T7
• Direct to PC
• (Recommendation use an external sound capture
  hardware)
• M-Audio
• OSPREY

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Lets go, a little Pro

• Audacity Audio Recording, Mixing, Effects
  Enhancements
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Portable (USB)http//portableapps.com/apps/music_
  video/audacity_portable

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Macs

• Apples Podcasting Strategy
• The new iLife suite is built for painless
  podcasting
• Third party software available widely on the Mac
  platform

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Drawbacks Beginning 06

• Out of the box security for the masses is yet to
  be worked out
• Solutions like UM Dentistry have been custom
  built
• Sakai/CTools is working to create a secure, IP
  respecting Podcasting environment

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Review

• Podcasting Environment at SPH UM
• Concepts surrounding Podcasting
• A Pro Approach on Windows Demo
• Recording in Audacity
• Adding Metadata in iTunes

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Related Links, Resources Articles

• Workshop Materials
• http//sitemaker.umich.edu/podcasting
• Software
• Creating mp3 / aac Audio
• iTunes
• Creating mp4, m4v (iPod Video)
• JODIX www.jodix.com
• QuicktimePro www.apple.com/quicktime
• Apple iTunes U Guide
• http//images.apple.com/support/itunes_u/docs/iTun
  es_U_User_Guide.pdf
• Audacity Audio Editor
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Portable http//portableapps.com/apps/music_video
  /audacity_portable
• Dentistry Podcast Resource Page
• http//www.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/resources/guides/
  podcast.html
• Educause 7 Things You Should Know about
  Podcasting
• http//www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?IDE
  LI7003
• Request iTunes U Tool in your Ctools site
  ctools_at_umich.edu