Podcasting at VGCC

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Podcasting at VGCC

• Maria Orsini MSN, RN
• VGCC
• Updated October 27, 2008

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Agenda

• Definition of Podcasting
• Podcasting Myths
• Students Complaints
• Advantages of Podcasting
• Possibilities
• Potholes
• Materials
• Naming Files
• Process of Podcasting
• VGCC RSS Feed website
• Campus Cruiser
• iTunes for Students

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What is Podcasting?

• Podcasting is a digital recording of a radio
  broadcast or similar program, made available in
  the Internet for downloading to a personal audio
  player.
• Word Press word of the year 2005

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• Podcasting Myth 1
• I need an iPod to podcast

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Nine Things Students Complain about on
Evaluations in Lecture Courses

• 1. There are not enough (or any) concrete
  examples.2. Quizzes/homework/lectures don't
  necessarily match the exams.3. There is no
  emphasis on what is more important and less
  important.4. The instructor never asks
  questions, doesn't know what's going on in the
  class.5. Lectures add little to the text.6. The
  instructor doesn't pause during lecture
• 7. Not enough time in class to practice
  listening to another language.

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Take an advantage!Use Podcasting to

• Add examples
• Add information that you missed in the classroom.
• Summarize the main points
• Propose questions
• Record Material covered in class
• Provide updates
• Language lessons
• http//teaching.berkeley.edu/ninecomplaints.html

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Podcasting Possibilities

• Student Podcast
• Distribute book reports beyond the room
• Create a Show
• Point of View Podcast
• Language practice

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Podcasting Potholes

• Create the podcast around objectives
• Students questions are not recorded
• Good info bad presentation boring
• Do not dwell in the technical part of it
• Recording has background noises
• Too long
• MO

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Podcast

• Audio file RSS feed
• MP3
• Each podcast is
• considered to be
• an episode.
• http//rss.vgcc.edu

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Preparation Steps

• 1. Get the digital Voice recorder from Evelyn
  Harris
• 2. Create a Folder for all your podcasts files.
• 3. Create your three titles before hand.
• a. Podcast Feed Name
• b. Podcast Feed Title
• c. Title of Podcast

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1. Materials neededto Prepare yourshow

• Hardware A digital voice recorder, microphone,
  computer,
• Web site (http//rss.vgcc.edu )
• Software
• ePC Editor,
• ePodcast Creator

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2. Create a folder for all your Podcast filesI
called mine Podcast 101
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Write your titles in these spaces

• 3. Create your Titles before hand!

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Podcast Feed Name

• Go to ePodcast Creator for access.
• Located at Feed Info tab
• Structure (Last name, class, title)
• Do not leave spaces between words
• Example OrsiniNUR210Culture
• Title shows in RSS website http//rss.vgcc.edu)
• Send Jermiel this title through e-mail

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Podcast Feed Name will showat the RSS VGCC Web
site
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Podcast Feed Title

• Go to ePodcast Creator for access.
• Located at Feed Info tab
• Structure (Last name, class, title)
• Do not leave spaces between words
• Example OrsiniNUR210Culture
• Hint You can use the same title as your Podcast
  Feed Name
• Title shows in Campus Cruiser website

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Podcast Feed Title will show in the RSS Channel
at Campus Cruiser
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Podcast Episode is the title of the Podcast

• Go to ePodcast Creator.
• Located at Podcast Episode Information Tab
• Structure (title of podcast)
• Do not leave spaces between words
• Example Culture
• Title shows in Campus Cruiser website under RSS
  Channel

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Title of Podcast (ePodcast Creator) Podcast
Episode (Campus Cruiser)
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Podcasting Process

• Create Distribute Access
• RSS/Podcast
• Record episode Publish episode Subscribe
• Edit episode to web server in
  Campus
• htpp//rss.vgcc.edu
  Cruiser or
• 
  iTunes

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Step 1Create MP3 audio file

• Record audio file
• Change audio format from WMA to Mp3 using ePC
  Editor

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Locate ePC Editor from Industrial Audio Software
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Import DSS_FLDA File from Removable Disk
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Select the WMA file and then click Open
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• Click on Save as from File tab.
• Select the MP3 Files format
• Name your podcast episode

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Step 1Create New RSS Feed and Podcast

• Open ePodcast Creator and click on Create
  Podcast form existing audio file

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Go to ePodcast Creator from Industrial Audio
Software
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Select MP3 audio File and click open
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Select podcast with iTunes Tags and click OK
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Notice that the audio file format is in MP3
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FTP Host Selection TabSelect and click on
VGCC-POD)
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Example of Podcast Feed NameThis is name is
belongs to the RSS file. This is the name that
you will send Jermiel through e-mail. Notice that
there are no spaces in between.
OrsiniNUR220Legal
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Feed Info TabPodcast Feed Title
NUR210Legal
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Feed iTunes InfoSub-Title
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Title of Podcast reflects the Information
included
Legal
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iTunes InfoWrite your Name
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FTP InfoUpload Path Click Browse and select
your name
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Click OK
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Click upload
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The END!

• You have created a new Podcast RSS Feed
• And
• You have created a new Podcast episode
• And Now
• Email Jermiel Hargrove the name of the Feed. He
  will create the link for the RSS file in our
  http//rss.vgcc.edu

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Repeating Step 1A New Beginning!

• You want to add a new Podcast to your already
  created Feed file.

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Create new podcast in current Feed file
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Click on the Podcast Feed file(pdi)
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Click Add podcastObserve the podcasts already
in the Feed that you selected
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Click on Open existing audio file and select
the MP3 file
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Verify if upload was successful by going to the
1st tab
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Step 2 Distribution

• Distribute
• New RSS file
• E-mail the New RSS Podcast Feed name to Jermiel
  Hargrove the Your Podcast Feed name will appear
  in the VGCC Web site server http//rss.vgcc.edu

• Distribute New Podcast for existing RSS file
• Do not e-mail Jermiel
• Your new podcast episode will appear
  automatically in Campus Cruiser

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Step 3Access

• Share with the students how to access the
  Podcasts using
• the Web site http//rss.vgcc.edu and Campus
  Cruiser.
• Share with the students their option to access
  the episodes through iTunes.

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Process of File transfer

• Feed File Campus Cruiser
  iTunes
• http//rss.vgcc.edu www.vgcc.edu
  www.itunes.com

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Final Step

• Teach the students how to access
• RSS Files from http//rss.vgcc.edu
• And
• Campus Cruiser
• Teach the students their choice for using iTunes
  and iPods/MP3 players

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Access the RSS Feeds at http//rss.vgcc.eduThen,
click on Manage Podcasts
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Select Instructor Class
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These are all the RSS FeedsHow many are here?
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Copy the RSS URL and Go to Campus Cruiser
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In Campus CruiserGo to Customize
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Select the RSS Channel
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Access the Podcast from the RSS Channel
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iTunes

• Listen to Podcast in iTunes
• Transfer Podcast from iTunes
• to your iPod

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Subscribe to Podcast from iTunes
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Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes by copying RSS
feed in VGCC RSS website and pasting it in the
Subscribe to Podcast section in iTunes
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Questions as you plan

• Music and Effects?
• Is it a single message or a series? Many topics,
  or in depth look at one?
• 1 host, co-hosts, panel discussion?
• Length of the show?
• How long until the next one?

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Questions?