iPods

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iPods Podcasts Revolutionizing the Classroom

• Carol Siwinski
• Germantown Academy
• Curricular Technology Specialist
• PETE C
• February 11 - 13, 2007

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iPod

• More than just a music player
• Portable learning tool
• Can develop core literacy skills
• Crosses generational lines
• Can be integrated into almost all disciplines
• Course content dissemination
• Classroom recording
• Field recording
• Study support
• File storage and transfer

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iPod Tools/Tip and Tricks

• Using iPod as portable recording device
• iTalk Griffith/XtremeMac Micro Memo voice
  recorder
• Inserting recorder
• Speak clearly, projecting voice, use inflection
• Hold recorder a few inches from mouth
• Set iPod to be updated manually
• Organization a must
• Download recordings either to desktop or iTunes
  and rename immediately
• Compress recording in iTunes
• Set iTunes to convert to MP3

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Early Grades

• Learn the letter sounds
• Students practice making sounds of letters
• Teacher recorders lesson to make words
• Students listen to lesson and make words using
  Lively Letter Cards
• Students can then record the words made
• Record speech and language for assessment
• More accurate indicator
• Can be saved iTunes, on computer, or CD
• Keep sample as record of progress
• Analyze to ascertain new speech and language
  goals

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Learning Modern Languages

• Immigration activity
• Learning past tense
• Narrate story extemporaneously for 2 mins. using
  iPod during class
• Graded on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
• Vacation activity
• To perfect pronunciation
• Take iPod home to record paragraph
• Graded on pronunciation
• Odes
• Write ode
• Create digital poster
• Take iPod home to Record ode
• Convert to MP3 and link from web page
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/academics/us/ModL
  ang/Spanish/odeelementales/index.html

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Learning Modern Language

• Digital storytelling
• Engages a palette of technical tools
• Weave personal tale using images, graphics, music
  and authors own voice
• Write script
• Recorded script using inflection, correct
  pronunciation, rerecord until perfect
• Racontez une histoire
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/academics/us/ModL
  ang/french/recontre/index.html
• Cuentos Digitales
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/academics/ms/8th/
  centosdigital/index.html

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Learning Modern Language

• Oral Exam
• Use iPod to administer more efficiently
• Record questions
• Download to iTunes and put on students iPod
• Using iPod students listen to questions and
  record answers
• Grade on listening and use of grammar, vocabulary
  and pronunciation

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History

• Oral history project
• Family member - Friend
• Collect artifacts, images, video (see digitizing
  slide)
• Write interview questions
• Storyboard production
• Interview using iPod
• Techniques - know questions, ad lib, keep eye
  contact, be interested, allow interviewee to
  complete thoughts, request specifics and details
• Download voice recording to iTunes
• Create product - use iMovie/GarageBand Podcast
• Import photos, voice -over, music for ambiance,
  apply transitions and Ken Burns for effect
• Ken Burns Documentary

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Science

• Digital Science Experiment
• Take digital photos step by step
• Use iPod to record observations
• Import memos into iTunes( playlist) and photos
  into iPhoto (album)
• Create an iMovie project
• View experiments for comparison
• Absence students can use movie to review missed
  work

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Digital Field Trip

• Any discipline/age
• Create guided tour of zoo, Washington, Jamestown,
  museum, Chinatown, etc
• Divide class into groups - photographer,
  recorder, director
• Write questions to stimulate reflective process
• Reflect on visit as person who lived during
  another era
• Present the basics of recording with an iPod
• Present basics of taking photos with digital
  camera
• Create product - use iMovie/Gargageband 3.0
  Podcast
• Import photos, voice -over, music for ambiance,
  apply transitions and Ken Burns for effect
• Most of all - incorporate technology in artful
  ways

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Digitizing Artifacts

• Scan images
• Make jpg, landscape 640 X 480
• Take photos as close as possible
• Download digital images from camera
• Be careful not to crop become pixilated
• Download images from web
• Only USE 640 X 480 or larger
• Use digital video camera with firewire
• Record voice over
• Use iMovie, GarageBand, Audacity or iPod with
  recorder
• Capture Music
• iTunes, GarageBand loops, CD
• Use mp3 format
• Free music resources

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Podcasting

• Allows for the distribution of audio files
  through RSS feed
• RSS - real simple syndication
• Audio file in MP3, Enhanced M4a format or Video
  files
• You can listen to podcast on Internet using Quick
  Time
• Using an aggregator iTunes you can subscribe to
  the podcast and listen later
• New episode automatically added through feed to
  aggregator
• Transfer podcast to iPod for portable listening

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Podcast in the Classroom

• Music students
• Listen to, memorize and critique classical music
• Share original musical works
• Foreign language
• Listen to native music
• Exposure to native speakers
• Listen to native newspapers to receive another
  view point of world events
• Learn a Foreign language
• E-mail key pals can become pod pals
• Create their own content
• History and English
• Listen to historical speeches
• Listen to interviews with experts
• Share period music

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Finding Podcast

• Educational Podcast for Teaching and Learning
  from UK
• http//recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/
• The educational Podcast Network
• http//epnweb.org/
• Podcast Alley - site features monthly ranking
  with a top ten list
• http//www.podcastalley.com/
• iTunes
• New version iTunes 7.0 or later has a built in
  Podcast directory.
• Launch iTunes
• Click the Podcasts icon in the Source panel.
• Categories are listed on the bottom-left of the
  screen.
• Perform a search.

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Creating a Podcast

• Make an MP3 or Enhanced MP4 file
• Preproduction - write script, find music, assign
  roles, etc
• Production using audio editing app to record
  Audacity, Garageband, mic, etc
• Upload the MP3 or M4a to web server
• Create web page or use free weblog -Word press,
  Blogger
• Link to URL of MP3 or MP4 on web page to listen
• Create XML file RSS2.0 feed with enclosures-
  (Feedburner online or Feeder 29.99)
• Link to URL of XML file on web page
• Submit podcast to directories
• Visitors subscribe through iTunes,
• Create enhanced Podcast using GarageBand 3.0
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/

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Podcasting Resources

• Learning in Hand
• http//www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/index.htm
  l
• Enhanced Podcast Creation with GarageBand
• http//creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/vi
  ewarticle.jsp?id37839-0
• Creating Podcast with .Mac and Feeder
• http//boinx.com/articles/podcasting/
• Podcasting Basics
• http//recap.ltd.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id2
• Using Garageband and iChat for Podcasting
• http//webcast.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/view
  article.jsp?id37930

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Sound Resources

• History Channel Great Speeches
• http//www.historychannel.com/broadband/home/index
  .jsp
• The Classical Music Archives
• http//www.classicalarchives.com/
• Dance Music MPeg and Video Clips from Library of
  Congress
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html
• Royalty Free Music.com
• http//www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-clips.h
  tml
• Free Music Play sample clips royalty free
• http//www.freemusicplay.com/
• Clipart.com - Sound effects and short music
  clips, (subscription required)
• http//www.Clipart.com

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Image Resources

• Library of Congress
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/
• ClipArt.Com The Clipart.com a collection of more
  than 6 million royalty-free clipart images,
  photos, illustrations, and fonts. (Subscription
  Based)
• http//www.clipart.com/
• Classroom Clipart
• http//classroomclipart.com/
• Pics4Learning
• http//www.pics4learning.com/
• Stock Photography
• http//www.stockphotography.com/index.html
• Barrys ClipArt
• http//www.barrysclipart.com/