Podcasting: A New Genre Exciting Students

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Podcasting A New Genre Exciting Students

• Carol Siwinski
• Germantown Academy
• Curricular Technology Specialist
• PETE C
• February 10 -12, 2008

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Podcasting

• Allows for the distribution of audio or video
  files through RSS feed
• RSS - real simple syndication
• Audio, enhanced audio or video files in MP3 or
  M4a format
• You can listen to podcast on Internet
• Using an aggregator iTunes or iPodder you can
  subscribe to the podcast and listen later
• Subcribe to podcast with aggregtor
• New episode automatically added through feed to
  aggregator
• Transfer podcast to iPod or mP3 player for
  portable listening

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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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Podcasts 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 original work

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Sample Podcasts

• Digging Up Dinosaurs
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/R
  adioGAcast3.htm
• Chinas Treasure Crest
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/R
  adioGAcast7.htm
• Authors Corner
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/R
  adioGAcast15.htm
• 1920s Podcast
• Wxyy
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/R
  adioGAcast16.htm
• Uncorked New York
• http//www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/radioga/R
  adioGAcast17.htm

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Sample Podcasts

• Grammar Girls Quick and Dirty Tips for Better
  Writing
• http//grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx
  
• English Idioms and Slang
• http//www.englishcaster.com/idioms/
• Storynory Free Audio Stories for Kids
• http//storynory.com/
• MathGrad Everyday Mathematics Explained
• http//www.mathgrad.com/
• First Amendment Minute
• http//www.firstamendmentminute.com/Podcasts/feed.
  xml
• LearnOutLoud Great History Speeches
• http//www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/History/Speech
  es/Great-Speeches-in-History-Podcast/21306
• Coffee Break Spanish
• http//www.radiolinguamedia.com/cbs/www/index.html

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Finding a Podcast

• Educational Podcast for Teaching and Learning
• http//recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php
• The educational Podcast Network
• http//epnweb.org/
• Podcast Alley - site features monthly ranking
  with a top ten list
• http//www.podcastalley.com/
• iTunes
• Download iTunes http//www.apple.com/itunes/downlo
  ad/
• New version iTunes 6.0 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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Subscribing to Podcast

• iTunes easiest way, find it and
• Find badge on web page
• If no iTunes badge select and drag
  and drop it into iTunes
• Using iTunes, copy the RSS URL address and paste

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Listening to Podcast

• On iTunes on a computer
• Subscribe through iTunes
• New episodes automatically updated
• On MP3 player such as iPod
• Portable
• Plug in iPod episodes automatically synchronized
• Podcast can be automatically deleted
• On web page, dont subscribe just listen

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Creating a Podcast

• Make an MP3 or M4a file
• Preproduction - write script, find music, assign
  roles, etc
• Production using audio editing app to record
  Audacity, Garageband, mic, etc
• Upload the MP3 to web server
• Create web page or use free weblog -Word press,
  LiveJournal, Blogger
• Link to URL of MP3or M4a 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, directors or
  web page links

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PreProduction

• Preproduction takes at least 3/4 of production
  time
• Develop format - host, topics and segments?
• Need a creative, catchy title
• Research, write and rehearse scripts
• Students develop a podcasting voice
• Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse!
• Have students listen to sample podcast
• Who is audience - students, parents, etc.
• Length should not be long 8 to 10 minutes

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Recording

• External mic better than built -in
• Recommend Logitec noise filtering headset
• Set sound preferences of system to recognize
  external mic
• Best app is GarageBand on MAC or Audacity on PC
• Can also use browser based app or iPod with mic
• GarageBand is nonlinear but easiest to record in
  order of script
• Record short pieces less chance for mistakes
• Leave space for intro, outro and bumpers

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Speaking Mistakes

• Talking too fast
• Honor periods
• Drop off end of words
• Popping ps
• Puking using a fake voice
• Ware mic practically next to eyes
• Eating the mic too close
• Touching the mic
• Enunciate clearly
• Speaking a normal volume speak to friend
• Prepare and practice
• Record in short portions and then put together
• Reduce the background noise
• Smile while reading

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PostProduction

• Edit clips
• Eliminate pauses and interruptions
• Add intro, outro and bumpers
• Use loops from GarageBand
• Audacity needs to download podcast safe music
• Adjust music tracks for ducking
• When perfect send to iTunes and convert it to MP3
• Place MP3 on web server

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Publishing Podcasts

• Once you created your audio program and
  uploaded it to a web server, make links to it on
  a web page or blog . Your final step is to create
  an RSS feed which converts your audio files into
  a bone fide podcast.
• Feeder - creating, editing and publishing RSS
  feeds on Mac OS X cost 29.95. All reside on your
  server
• http//reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
• Feedburner -creating an RSS feed
• http//www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answe
  r.py?answer79416ctxsibling
• Blogger and Feedburner - tutorial
• http//www.podcastingnews.com/articles/Make_Podcas
  t_Blogger.html
• Feed Validator
• http//www.feedvalidator.org
• Submit RSS feed address to podcast directories
  including iTunes
• Link to your Podcast in iTunes using this tutorial

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Creating Podcast with Web 2.0

• PodOmatic - Create, Find, Share Podcasts
• http//www.podomatic.com/podcast
• MyPodcast.Com free web2.0 podcasting
  application
• http//www.mypodcast.com/?gclidCL-uwaC735ACFSBMGg
  odh2uHXg
• JamGlue - Create your podcast and download the
  MP3
• http//www.jamglue.com/
• Podpoint - 19/month Podcast feed, podcast
  manager, iTunes submission, sermon notes
• http//podpoint.net/start

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Podcasting Resources

• Learning in Hand
• http//www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/index.htm
  l
• Complete Guide to iTunes Podcast from iLounge
• http//ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the
  -complete-guide-to-itunes-49-with-podcasts/
• Guide to Podcast creation
• http//www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments
  /beginners-guide-to-podcast-creation/
• Enhanced Podcasting Creation
• http//creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/vi
  ewarticle.jsp?id37839-0
• Recording a Podcasting Tutorial - Audacity
• http//www.jakeludington.com/podcasting/20050222_r
  ecording_a_podcast.html
• Podcasting Tool Box
• http//mashable.com/2007/07/04/podcasting-toolbox/
  

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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
• Free Music Play sample clips royalty free
• http//www.freemusicplay.com/
• The Free Sound Project
• http//freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
• Flash Kit -Sound FX
• http//flashkit.com/soundfx/
• Podcast Bumper Music
• http//bumpermusic.blogspot.com/
• Four bEEs - free media
• http//www.fourbees.com/fourbees/audelm.asp

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iPod Tools/Tip and Tricks

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

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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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Image Resources

• Library of Congress
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/
• Library of Congress on Flickr
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
• Kodaks Powerful Days in Black and White
• http//www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/moo
  reIndex.shtml
• National Archives of UK from Doomsday to present
• http//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
• National Archives
• http//www.archives.gov/
• Classroom Clipart
• http//classroomclipart.com/
• Pics4Learning
• http//www.pics4learning.com/