Podcasting

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Podcasting

• Information when you want it
  and where you want it.

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• Outline for today
• What is podcasting?
• Professional podcasting
• Finding podcasts
• Subscribing to podcasts
• Educational uses
• Creating your own podcasts
• Homework

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Podcasting From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Podcasting is the method of distributing
  multimedia files, such as audio programs or music
  videos, over the Internet using either the RSS or
  Atom syndication formats, for playback on mobile
  devices and personal computers. The term podcast
  like 'radio', can mean both the content and the
  method of delivery. The host or author of a
  podcast is often called a podcaster. Podcasters'
  web sites may also offer direct download or
  streaming of their files a podcast however is
  distinguished by its ability to be downloaded
  automatically using software capable of reading
  RSS or Atom feeds.
• Usually a podcast features one type of 'show',
  with new episodes released either sporadically or
  at planned intervals such as daily or weekly.

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• RSS (file format)
• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in
  XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by
  (among other things) news websites, weblogs and
  podcasting. The abbreviation is variously used to
  refer to the following standards
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
• Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web
  content together with links to the full versions
  of the content, and other metadata. RSS, in
  particular, delivers this information as an XML
  file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or
  RSS channel. In addition to facilitating
  syndication, web feeds allow a website's frequent
  readers to track updates on the site using an
  aggregator.

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AggregatorFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• An aggregator or news aggregator is a type of
  software that retrieves syndicated Web content
  that is supplied in the form of a web feed (RSS,
  Atom and other XML formats), and that are
  published by weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and
  mainstream mass media websites.
• What do aggregators do?
• Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to
  regularly check websites of interest for updates,
  creating a unique information space or "personal
  newspaper." An aggregator is able to subscribe to
  a feed, check for new content at user-determined
  intervals, and retrieve the content. The content
  is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the
  subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or
  IM. Unlike recipients of some "pushed"
  information, the aggregator user can easily
  unsubscribe from a feed.
• The aggregator provides a consolidated view of
  the content in a single browser display or
  desktop application. Such applications are also
  referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed
  aggregators or news readers.

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Podcatcher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• A podcatcher is a computer program used to
  automatically download podcasts. It is a form of
  aggregator, and can also transfer received audio
  files to a portable media player.
• The term podcatcher was first dubbed by Kevin C.
  Tofel on October 9, 2004 in an on-line review of
  Doppler, which was one of the first podcatchers
  for the Windows platform. This review was the
  basis for one of the first print mentions of
  podcatchers in the February 2005 issue of Pocket
  PC Magazine.
• The most popular podcatcher is generally
  considered to be Juice (podcasting).

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Professional Podcasting

• Finding Podcasts
• Google
• Podcast Alley
• (http//podcastalley.com)
• The Education Podcast Network (http//epnweb.org)

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Subscribing to Podcasts with iTunes

• Easy to use
• Automatically updates and downloads new episodes
  of the subscription
• Lists previous episodes with download link
• Easy to unsubscribe or edit subscription
• Uploads podcasts to mp3 player
• Plays podcasts from your computer
• Education Podcast Network

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Install iTunes and Find your Podcasts

• Install iTunes
• Search for and subscribe to podcasts that
  interest you
• 15 Minutes

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Educational UsesWhat do you think?Brainstormin
g Activity with Roxie

• Coming of Age an introduction to the new world
  wide web
• Coming of Age

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Creating your own Podcast

• Audacity Demo Chris Hall

• Audacity
• http//www.audacity.sourceforge.net
• Lame mp3 Encoder

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Our Blog

• We will all be posting to the same blog to answer
  the homework questions just to make it easier to
  view everyones comments.
• Go to http//blogger.com and log in.
• Username is gcspinnacle
• Password is pinnacle
• Click on the GCS Pinnacle Leaders XI link.
• Blogger.com

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Podcasting Homework

• Post in the Pinnacle XI blog
• Should all students be assessed the same way?
  Why or Why not? Back up with some data!
• What assessments do I currently use and should I
  use others? Why? When?
• List one podcast that you subscribe to.
• Create a podcast
• Record a short reading or commentary of your
  choice.

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Happy Podcasting