Motivating Todays Digital Native with Podcasts

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Motivating Todays Digital Native with Podcasts

• Dr. Howie DiBlasi
• Director of Technology
• Durango School District
• I.S.T.E. Webinar Presentation 2007
• howie_at_frontier.net
• 970-749-0760
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com

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Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the
Podcasts
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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve student collaboration
• Does it help students communicate globally?
• Does it help students deal with massive amounts
  of information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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Willow Creek 1st Grade
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We need to teach our students to be
self-directed and understand how to organize more
and more of their own learning -Alan November
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Why collaboration?

• 21st Century Skill preparation for a new
  marketplace
• Promote engagement kids are increasingly social
  and collaborative
• High-level thinking skills
• Student-centered accessible
• Multiple learning styles

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Educator's Podcast GuideAuthor Bard Williams

• Finallya technology that helps bridge the gap
  between content delivery and today's "digital
  native" students! An essential resource all
  educators interested in adding podcasting to the
  classroom.

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Podcasts In EducationWill RichardsonBlogs,
Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms
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Dan Schmidt currently has two books available as
resources for teachers. These books will provide
you with lots of background and tutorial material
for implementing creative audio into your
classroom or educational organization. They are
more than simple tutorial books, they are filled
with examples and activities to provide educators
with the context they will need in order to
position new technologies in their teaching.
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'Podcasting'. From Wikipedia""Podcasting" is a
web-based broadcast medium in which files are
made available online in a way that allows
software to automatically detect new files
(generally via RSS), and download them. A podcast
can be thought of an audio magazine subscription,
in that a subscriber receives regular programs
without having to remember to go get them, and
can listen or watch them at leisure."
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What is a podcast?

• 1. Term came from iPod and broadcasting
• 2. Podcasting is the method of distributing
  multimedia files, (audio, videos, etc.) for
  playback on mobile devices and personal
  computers.
• 3. Podcasting is essentially like 'radio' and
  can be produced with a standard computer,
  microphone, software (often free), and a web site
  for posting your programming.
• 4. Podcasting can be heard or viewed with any
  computer or downloaded to a mobile device.

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How do I distribute it or get it?

• "Podcasting is the automatic distribution of mp3s
  via RSS/XML files."
• iTunes or other web site- SUBSCRIBE
•  Can be downloaded to MP3 player (iPod-Zen
  Player-Iriver-Creative etc)

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Where do I find Podcasts ??

•         iTunes Mac or PC
•         Internet
•         Education Podcast Network
  http//epnweb.org/
•         iPodder.org http//www.ipodder.org/direct
  ory/4/podcasts
•         Podcast alley http//www.podcastalley.com
  /
•         LearnOut Loud http//www.learnoutloud.com
  /Podcast-Directory

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podcast.net http//www.podcast.net/
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Downloading/Saving Podcasts...

• On computer
• PC- right click, save link as...MP3
• Mac hold mouse button down, save as

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Lets listen to a sample PodcastTitle
Marshall Jr. and Louise What year did you first
go to school? Does Betsy visually create a
picture for you?Can you identify what the
situation is?Can you identify with the
situation?
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Listen to a sample PodcastDoes she visually
create a picture for you?Can you smell the
bacon?Can you see the pink lemonade?Can you
identify what the situation is?Can you identify
with the situation?What year did you first go to
school? End Point )14
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Why Podcast ?

• Podcasts allows students and teachers to publish
  audio to the Web,
• Allows students to publish to a global community
  ...
• Distribute information
• Share performances
• Improve verbal skills
• Communicating with large numbers of people

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What are the advantages of Podcasting for
education?

• Be able to use multiple learning styles to learn
  additional content
• Learn 21st Century skills by using podcasts and
  by participating in creating them
• Learn lifelong learning skills through
  self-directed learning, co-learning and
  facilitated learning with teachers and students
• Adjust to various learner skills
• Gain global perspectives by educators using other
  podcasts as part of their classes,
• Develop critical analysis and reflection if
  educators create podcasts that explore deeper
  meanings of content.
• Multimedia authoring
• Address Multiple intelligence
• All learners can be successful

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Why Podcast ?

• http//edcommunity.apple.com/ali/item.php?itemID9
  934

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Why Podcast-David Warlick

• Podcasting makes publishing accessible
• They provide a powerful, reachable voice
• Content, is waiting for you whenever you have
  the time to consume it
• There is a sense of connection when you hear
  someones voice
• You can feel their emotion
• You can sense how they feel about their subject
  matter

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What to Podcast

• Tutorials, discussions between interviewers and
  experts, editorializing,
• Classroom and student created content
• Students creating reports
• Authentic learning projects
• Student dramatic performances
• Teacher created materials
• Students conducting oral histories and creating
  new presentation forms of them
• Cross-cultural exchanges of political and
  cultural perspectives and issues Global
  Connection
• Advanced authentic learning projects

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Ideas -Podcasting

• Public Speaking
• Student dramatizations
• Skill development
• Media literacy
• Technology skills Scientific experiments
• Social Studies reports

• Writing
• Poetry
• Interviews
• Foreign Language
• Lecture and Notes
• Concerts
• News Broadcasts
• Board Meetings

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How many podcast listeners are there already?

• More than 22 million American adults own iPods or
  MP3 players
• 29 of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web
  so that they could listen to audio files at a
  time of their choosing.
• That amounts to more than 6 million adults who
  have tried this new feature that allows internet
  "broadcasts" to be downloaded onto their portable
  listening device.

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Room 208 Bob Spranklehttp//bobsprankle.com/blog/
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Elementary School Memories

• Now I'd like you to think back to an incident in
  grade school which you remember well....what was
  going on?
• What are some other vivid memories of your
  elementary school years?
• How were your grades in grammar school?
• How did you spend your summers during grade
  school?
• While you were growing up, did you have any sense
  of whether your family was rich or poor, and what
  would you say now about your family's economic
  circumstances when you were growing up?
• Were you happy as a young child?

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The Podship Huskerprise By Dan SchmidtKidcast
Podcasting in the Classroom

• Narrator Cyberspace. The final frontier. These
• are the voyages of the podship Huskerprise. Our
• mission, to seek out intelligent discourse, to
• engage listeners in deep thinking and to boldly
  go
• where no podcaster has gone before.
• Captain Star Date 1.6.06 We've entered a new
• quadrant of cyberspace...a quadrant of unknown
• potential.
• 1st Officer Captain, there's something up ahead.
• It looks to be an MP3 file.
• Captain Mr. Microphone, try to tap into the
• transmission.
• Mr. M Captain, wait...i need to update to the
• latest version of iTunes. (pause) Ok... here it
• comes.

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KidCASTSample PODCAST
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Best Education Podcasts by kids

• Radio WillowWeb is a podcast for kidsand by kids
  from the students at Willowdale Elemetary School
  in Omaha, Nebraska.
• http//www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/
• Jamestown Podcasts - Jamestown Elementary-
  Arlington, Virginia,
• http//slapcast.com/users/Jamestown
• Podcast Central -Mabry Middle School (
  Ga)podcasts
• http//mabryonline.org/podcasts/
• Coulee Kids' Podcast - Longfellow Middle School -
  La Crosse, Wisconsin
• http//www.sdlax.net/longfellow/sc/ck/index.htm

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EPN- Educational Podcast Network

• http//www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id63open
  pod16

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Coulee Kids' Podcast - Longfellow Middle School -
La Crosse, Wisconsin - seventh grade students
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Listen in on the Podcast..click HERE
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Podcast..3 easy steps

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Creating your first Podcast

• Plan the content
• Who is you audience
• Set up equipment
• Record with an MP3 recorder or Audacity
• Edit it with Audacity
• Garage band (Mac)
• Edit your show-Take out dead air time, add music,
  opening and closing
• -save as MP3 file
• Export it as MP3 file
• Upload it to a Podcast Server
• Create and publish your RSS feed
• Tell the world

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What Do I need ?

• Script
• Mike
• Recorder-for MP3 files
• Audio editor- Audacity
• Sound Studio
• Headphones
• Podcast aggregator
• Web Host

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Philips 1GB MP3 Player

• Features
• Wearable personal MP3 player with 2-line LCD
  display
• 1GB built-in flash memory stores up to 450 songs
• USB mass storage compliant
• built-in digital voice recorder
• 4 preset equalizer settings
• high-speed USB 2.0 interface
• Measures 1.123.270.87 inches (W x H x D)
• Enjoy up to 8-hour music playback
• Easy, intuitive music experience
• Backlit LCD display
• Folder Browsing to find your music fast
• Enjoy MP3 and WMA playback
• Make voice recordings

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Philips 1GB MP3 Player

• ProsAwesome sound, seven display colors,
  light-weight, inexpensive.ConsNo 'hold'
  button, controls revert to main screen too
  quickly.The Bottom LineLooking for an easy to
  operate MP3 player but don't want to spend a ton
  of money? The SA4010 is definitely the way to go.

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Edirol R-09 Portable WAV/MP3 Recorder, 24-bit
399.00

• Features
• 24-bit/48kHz (or 44.1kHz) uncompressed recording
• Up to 320kbps MP3 playback and recording
• Records to SD card (64MB card included)
• High-grade stereo condenser microphone built in
• Mic and Line audio inputs USB I/O
• Easy operation, user-friendly graphic display
• Ultra portable, half the size of the R-1
• Long battery life
• USB Interface Mini-B type connector. USB
  1.1/2.0 mass storage device class compatible

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Using Audacity-PC and MAC

• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Do NOT FORGET THE LAME Encoder

• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?sinstall
  itemlame-mp3

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Adjust the Mike Input here
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To record using AUDACITY-Click the RECORD button
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Editing The Podcast from a portable recorder..
copy the file from the Recorder to the Desktop
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Music Podcast Safe Music

• http//www.podsafeaudio.com/

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http//music.podshow.com/
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How and where do I post it ?

• Slapcast
• Slapcast.com Podcasting By Phone and Upload
• What you get with a paid account
• Only 4.95 a month
• No bandwidth charges! We don't care if your
  podcast has just 1 subscriber or 100,000 !

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Where to store your Podcast

• http//www.mypodcast.com/about.html

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KidCasts Ideascourtesy Dan Schmidt

• SoundSeeing Tours
• Daily Reporter report daily events at school
• Student Almanac
• Using podcasts to record process streams (e.g.
  showing procedures, mathematical processes,
  science labs, classroom procedures)
• Study guides Review and reflect on studies and
  curriculum, give students a pep talk!
• Sound stories language with music and sound
  students can collaborate and produce a series
  together
• Podcast Dramas Create old time radio dramas, tie
  them to concepts you are studying, the
  adventures of Dr. Negative and Mrs. Positive!
• Poetry Slam Create original poems, record
  expressively, arrange sections of poems, combine
  with music and sound effects, add some
  perspective and commentary, release them one at a
  time.
• Today in History Assign students a day each
  month, look for historical events on their date.
  Get students to research context, events, and
  implications. They should be able to explain, not
  just read.
• Lost in Time 2-5 minute descriptions of an event
  in history.

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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve student collaboration
• Does it help students communicate globally?
• Does it help students deal with massive amounts
  of information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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Contact Information

• Dr. Howie DiBlasi
• Director of Information Technology
• Durango School District 9-R
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• 970-247-5411 ex 1451

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