Session 4- Effective use of Podcasts and iTunes

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Session 4- Effective use of Podcasts and iTunes
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What is a podcast? - effectively an audio file
which is then put onto the Internet
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How have I used them? - Grammar series - pupil
recordings - pupil grammar explanations
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Grammar series created to help reinforce grammar
learning OUTSIDE of the classroom - responding
to a request by a pupil - FANTASTIC for audio
learners
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Pupil grammar explanations - benefit of
explaining to others - need for script - peer
assessment on podcasts - minimal teacher input,
maximum output - pupils then have an immediate
revision tool
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• Sounds hard, but isnt!
• Record podcast...

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How to record a podcast... 1) Recording material
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• How to record a podcast...
• Recording material

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• How to record a podcast...
• Recording material

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• How to record a podcast...
• Recording material

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• How to record a podcast...
• Recording material
• Audacity for PCs- www.download.com
• LAME FE
• (allows you to export as MP3)
• OR Garageband for Macs

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How to record a podcast... A volunteer, anyone...?
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Facilities in Audacity - amplify - fade in /
fade out - putting music over recordings using
Creative Commons Licensed music e.g. www.flash
kitloops.com
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Effect of using Audacity - enjoyment - pupils
listening to recording over and over to improve
it - reinforces learning
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• Sounds hard, but isnt!
• Record podcast...
• Use a podcast host, eg www.jellycast.com
• www.podomatic.com
• 2) Copy the feed address which you will be given
• Eg http//edgehill.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/56

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So lets have a look at iTunes
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In iTunes (free!!), go to the podcast section
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• Scroll down, and you will see this box
• You want to Submit a Podcast

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• Adding the podcast to iTunes
• Motivation
• Can put onto MP3 players / computers and listen
  to work again, rather than just forgetting it

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Pupil recordings - selected recordings again put
onto iTunes (EdgehillCast) - great revision
tool - pupils listen to their recordings
repeatedly whilst editing - all year 10
recordings now going onto i-tunes, allowing them
to download their work and peers work -
providing opportunity to expland learning beyond
classroom walls
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• And, of course, we can put the podcast onto a
  blog...
• Simply insert it as a file, and when clicked the
  audio will open and play

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Further fun tools

• Voicethread.com

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Further fun tools
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• Voicethread.com
• -online media album, can hold virtually any type
  of media (images, documents and videos)
• -allows people to make comments in 5 different
  ways - using voice (with a microphone or
  telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a
  webcam)
• -easy to embed in a blog (or wiki)
• -allows group conversations to be collected and
  shared in one place, ideal for international
  projects

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Further fun tools

• Voki.com

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• -Allows pupils to builda character
• Makes speaking exercises less threatening
• Highly motivational

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Further fun tools

• Slidecast
• - an extension of slideshare.net
• allows you to record audio to annotate ppts

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• Podcasts as listening materials...
• Coffee Break Spanish
• -excellent topic explanations

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• Podcasts as listening materials...
• 2) Elliot school podcasts
• - KS5 topics, with exercises

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• Podcasts as listening materials...
• 3) iTunes as a podcast search engine

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• Podcasts as CPD

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