Podcasting in Education
Part 1 & 2
Workshop Resources
- Podcasting Using Windows Tutorial - a step by step guide to creating educational podcasts, developed for the Washington State Rich Media Project
- Requesting and using a SCCD Podcast Account - a step by step guide to getting an account on our new podcast server and copying podcast files to it.
- What is podcasting? - video podcast from "Ask A Ninja.com."
- Podcasting and Feeds - excellent description of podcasting and "feeds."
- PowerPoint Presentation for Part 1
- PowerPoint Handout for Part 1
- PowerPoint Presentation fo Part 2
- Practice Podcast Script - used for recording a podcast during the workshop
- Sample RSS feed for practice podcast
- Practice Podcast
- RoyaltyFreeMusic.com has music you can use in your podcasts. It's free because we are educators using this for our students.
- The Hollywood Edge has free samples (applause, door slam, helicopter, etc.)
Podcast Examples
- Melissa Grinley's Podcast Interview for psychology students.
- Dan Loos' practice dictation for his ESL students
- Diane Schmidt music podcast on rock n roll and blues rhythm
- Grammar Girl's Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing- grammar tips made fun!
- Question Words in Spanish - listen to the power of podcasting in connection with foreign language classes
- Mathematics for the Masses - excellent use of podcasting with mathematics
- TED lectures - 20 minute long lectures of "ideas worth sharing"
- Podcast on the topic of Voting created by Thom Cook
- Speaking of History - an 8th grade teachers history podcast. Listen to one of his recent interview podcasts.
- The French Podclass - view a Video Vocabulary lesson - an example of a video podcast or vodcast.
- Listen Up! Library news and information from Georgia Perimeter College. Listen to the May episode.
- mrexcel - a short video podcast about Excel - created with screen capture software (Camtasia Studio)? Learn how to do whatif calculations in this episode.
- iTunes U - UC Berkeley podcasts - referred to by our convocation spearker
- JavaScript Lecture by Bill Newman (used with his permission) - this is a complete and unedited lecture that was recorded with an Olympus DM-20 voice recorder then converted to MP3 using Switch. Even though the lecture is 70 minutes long, the file is only about 8 MB.
Resources
- Software for recording podcasts
- Audacity - free podcast recording software for Windows, Mac, Linux
- GarageBand - free for Mac only and usually comes with OS
- Creating RSS Feeds
- Podcast 411 - good information on RSS feeds
- Step by Step Tutorial for Creating a RSS Feed - from About.com
- FeedForAll - software ($40) that will create your RSS feeds
- Feedburner - free RSS service - will create different types of feeds (iTunes included) for you
- Listgarden - free software for creating RSS feed files
- Feed Validator for Atom and RSS - in case you decide to make your own feeds.
- File Conversion Software
- Free iPod Video Converter - will convert many different file formats to ones that can be used on a video iPod
- Free WMA to MP3 Converter - will convert wma files to mp3.
- Podcatcher Software
- Podcast Directories
- NPR Podcast Directory - for all the npr "junkies" among us
- Podcast Alley - the place to find podcasts and find out about podcasts and podcasting
- Education Podcast Network - excellent place to find examples of educational podcasts
- Podcasting News Podcast Directory - nicely organized directory
- Podcast Net - yet another nicely organized directory
- Podzinger - a search engine for podcasts that searches for words within a podcast - amazing!
- Miscellaneous Resources
- Podcasting Legal Guide - from Wikipedia a 42 page legal guide. It's available as a PDF document, too - much easier to read.
- Podcasting at the UW - Evaluation of Current Use - some surprising results from a recent survey taken at the UW.
- Duke University iPod Experience Final Evaluation Report - an overview of their iPod project with recommendations.
March 5, 2007
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