CoursecastingPodcasating

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Coursecasting/Podcasating

• Shouhong Zhang, Ed.D
• Manager, Instructional Design Services
• Laura Wight, Assistant Professor
• Reference Librarian/Instruction Coordinator
• H.M. Briggs Library

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Introduction to Podcasting

• Case show
• Podcasting _at_ Penn State
• Gresham College Lecture Archive
• Purdue University Boilercasts
• iTunes Education/Higher Education

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What is Coursecasting?

• Podcasting/Coursecasting
• Audio file
• No iPod necessary

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Why Do It?

• Portable Education
• Minimal cost
• Tailor to learning styles

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Possible Uses

• Missed lectures, lecture review
• Access to experts via interviews
• Review/upload foreign language lessons
• Music critique, musical resumes
• Libraries of bird sounds
• Downloadable library of high resolution heart
  sounds
• Student learning tool, review, assessment,
  reflection
• Oral history archiving
• Sport event distribution
• Recording teaching notes
• Recruitment
• Audio recordings of textbook text

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Getting Started

• Files supported .mp3 .avi .m4v .m4a .flv .wav
  .au .mp4 .3gp .mov .aif .pdf
• Hardware needed
• Mic or recorder
• Software needed (free iTunes download)
• MAC, ProfCast
• PC, QuickTime Pro. Audacity, Adobe Audition

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4 Simple Steps (2 for iTunes U)

• MAC (Recording-iTunes U)
• PPT slides/ProfCast
• Recording
• Publishing
• Viewing
• PC (Recording-iTunes U)
• QuickTime Pro Recording
• File moved to a hosting server
• Preparing your Podcasting subscription file
• Viewing

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• IDS supports it from beginning to production.
• Questions?