PODCASTING

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PODCASTING

• Boby Alex
• Sara Fuselier
• Karen Tschirn

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What is podcasting?

• Podcasting is the dissemination or broadcast of
  audio in the form of MP3 files or other file
  formats for playback in a digital music player or
  computer.

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Two Types

• Podcast (audio)
• This casting has only audio on the file.

• Vodcast (video)
• This casting has video and audio on the file.

This site has examples of both vodcasts and one
podcast Vodcasts and Podcast Examples
Here is a link to DukeCasts. There are many very
useful examples http//dukecast.oit.duke.edu/ (C
opy and paste the link into your browser window)
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Ways to incorporate podcasts
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How Others Use Podcasting!
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How to create your own podcast
Supplies
Recording
Editing
Editing with Audacity
Publishing
Converting
Uploading
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Getting other podcasts

• The software that goes out and grabs podcasts
  for you is known as a aggregator. An aggregator
  scours the Web for the exact kind of content
  (podcasts) you have told it to look for. Many of
  the these programs will go out and get the
  material at night (or whenever you tell it to),
  delivering the content to your desktop, iPod, or
  other MP3 player while you sleep (Farkas,
  Secrets of Podcasting Audio Blogging for the
  Masses, 2006, p. 18-19).
• Eg. www.ipodder.org , www.podscope.com

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Responsible PodcastingIssues to consider in
creating and using podcasts

• You must have permission to use content before
  you mix it into your content (Flanagan
  Calandra, 2005, p. 22).
• Just as you give credit to an author by citing
  his/her work in your research, you must also give
  credit to the creators of any content you have
  pulled off other Internet sites. For example, if
  you incorporate music into your podcast, you must
  credit the source.
• Just as you screen videos or read books for
  inappropriate or unsuitable content prior to
  sharing them with your students, you should also
  screen all podcasts.

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Responsible Podcasting Cont.

• When publishing information in any form, you and
  your students are legally responsible for what
  you say in your podcasts. If someone slanders or
  says something false about people or products,
  they may end up in court (Flanagan Calandra,
  2005, p. 22).
• Additionally, student privacy concerns must be
  addressed. Administrators may become worried
  when they hear about students work being posted
  online (Flanagan Calandra, 2005, p. 22).

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Responsible Podcasting Cont.

• Technical support is another important issue to
  be addressed. Podcasting requires considerable
  file server hard drive space for storage of MP3s,
  and it requires considerable bandwidth every time
  a student downloads a podcast (Flanagan
  Calandra, 2005, p. 22).
• Additionally, an educational institution must
  have trained technical staff on hand to train
  teachers how to use podcasts, as well as
  facilitate the use of podcasting in classrooms.

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Resources
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Credit/References

• Balas, J. (2005). Blogging Is So Last Year
  Now Podcasting Is Hot. Online Treasures.
  Computers in Libraries, v25(n10Nov-Dec), p29.
  Retrieved Friday, March 02, 2007 from the ERIC
  database.
• Bull, G. (2005). Podcasting and the Long Tail.
  Learning and Leading with Technology, v33(n3Nov),
  p24. Retrieved Friday, March 02, 2007 from the
  ERIC database.
• eSchool News Technology News for Todays k-20
  Educator. V10, n30, March 2007. Companies mine
  growth of MP3 homework. P. 27.
  www.eschoolnews.com.
• Flanagan, B., Calandra, B. (2005). Podcasting
  in the Classroom. Learning and Leading with
  Technology, v33(n3Nov), p20. Retrieved Friday,
  March 02, 2007 from the ERIC database.

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Now you can make your own podcast!!!
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Lectures and Discussions

• Podcastings initial uses focused mainly on
  distributing recorded lectures and discussions.
  This was a cost-effective, easy way to deliver
  instruction without compromising quality
  learning. Because of these benefits, podcasts
  are very useful for disabled students who may not
  be able to attend all classes.

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Foreign Language and Music Studies

• Podcasting also augments foreign language and
  music studies. Music students can record music,
  listen to it, memorize and critique it for
  greater understanding of various musical
  compositions. Foreign language students can
  increase their exposure to other languages by
  listening to native speakers, hearing native
  music, literature, and even seeing plays on their
  iPod or MP3 player. Podcasting has greatly freed
  foreign language students from being tied to
  language labs stationary computers, thus
  increasing their exposure to the language
  studied.

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History and English Literature Classes

• History and English literature classes have
  used podcasting to share time period music,
  historical speeches, radio plays, interviews with
  experts, and audio books. Audio books,
  newspapers, and magazines can be easily
  disseminated to students through podcasting
  (Flanagan Calandra, 2005, p. 21).

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English as a Second Language(ESL) Students

• Teachers can record readings and also tests or
  quizzes on podcasts for English Second Language
  (ESL) students so that as they read they also can
  hear the words, which often lends to greater
  understanding. This is also beneficial for some
  students with learning disabilities. Students
  can be taught to rewind/fast forward/stop/restart
  a podcast in order to greatly increase
  understanding of a book or a test.

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Field Research

• Students can conduct field research by taking
  an MP3 player with a microphone to interview,
  take verbal notes, and record foreign
  environments (Flanagan Calandra, 2005, p. 21).

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Sound Seeing Tours

• Many museums are creating soundseeing tours
  where a listener can hear information about a
  work of art as they tour through the museum.
  This eliminates the additional cost needed for
  staffing docents. These soundseeing tours also
  have the added benefit of flexibility allowing
  the user to create their own tour by scrolling
  through the art listed and learning only about
  the artwork they are interested in and touring
  the museum in the order that pleases the
  listener.

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Duke Universitys DukeCast

• In 2004, Duke University distributed 20 GB Apple
  iPods to each first student. The 20 GB iPods
  were preloaded with an orientation schedule,
  academic calendar, introductions from Duke
  administrators, advice from current Duke
  students, athletics schedules, lyrics to the
  school fight song, and more (Flanagan
  Calandra, 2005, p. 20). The iPods were used in
  16 courses for the fall semester and 33 courses
  for the spring semester. The Duke University
  iPod First Year Experience Final Report described
  academic uses for the iPod as falling into five
  categories 1. Course content dissemination, 2.
  Classroom recording, 3. Field recording, 4. Study
  support, and 5. File storage and transfer
  (Flanagan Calandra, 2005, p. 20). One
  professor at Duke is building a visual glossary
  of 500 human neuro-anatomical structures and
  terms comprising text descriptions, images, and
  corresponding audio pronunciations
  (http//cit.duke.edu/pdf/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf
  ).

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Georgia Colleges Study Abroad

• At Georgia College and State University, study
  abroad students are given an iPod preloaded with
  readings, maps, photos, and other information
  useful for navigating in this foreign country and
  enhancing their study abroad experience.

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U-of-Wisconsin-Madison Ornithology Class

• The University of Wisconsin Madison has
  integrated podcasting into several of its
  courses. For example, ornithology courses use
  podcasts to allow students to listen to birdcalls
  to differentiate birds. In foreign language
  studies, for example, Spanish-speaking authors
  record responses so that students of all
  ability-levels can listen to the posts at their
  own comfort and ability level.

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Doing Laundry and Going Grocery Shopping

• Whetstone listens to her iPod while doing
  laundry. Zollos listens to her iPod while
  grocery shopping. Onlookers might assume that
  these two young women are listening to their
  favorite tunes, however, Whetstone and Zollos
  are students in Kathy OConnors class at
  Tidewater Community College in Virginia.
  OConnor got an 11,000 grant from the school to
  lend her students iPods so they can practice
  their Spanish conversations anywhere not just
  sitting in front of a computer (eSchool News,
  March 2007, p. 27).

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Purdue Universitys Biology Labs

• At Purdue, biology students learn about the
  skills and requirements needed to successfully
  complete their next lab by viewing vodcasts that
  describe and demonstrate the skills.

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Heart Murmurs

• Michael Barrett, a cardiologist at Temple
  University, even put recordings of heart murmurs
  online so his medical students could download and
  listen to them, instead of squeezing in time with
  a patient (eSchool News, March 2007, p. 27).
  According to Barrett, the iPod becomes a
  simulated patient.

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LibriVox

• Balas (2005) mentions several library-related
  podcasting projects, such as, LibriVox, which
  defines itself as the acoustical liberation of
  books in the public domain, is an open source
  project to record and distribute podcasts of
  public domain books (p.31) by having volunteers
  read and record chapters of selected works.

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National Public Radio Stations

• National Public Radio (NPR) stations, for
  example, are making a variety of programs
  available as podcasts. It is certainly more
  convenient to listen to a program at a time the
  listener chooses (Bull, 2005, p. 24).

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VangoNotes

• Audible, the biggest audio book seller, and
  Pearson Education, the biggest textbook
  publisher, teamed up last summer to launch
  VangoNotes, textbook chapter summaries and
  reviews in MP3 form (eSchool News, March 2007,
  p. 27).

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General Podcasting/Audio

• Start your own podcast
• ww.macworld.com/2005/04/secrets/junecreate/index.p
  hp
• Apple iTunes
• http//itunes.com
• Audacity
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net
• Audible
• http//www.audible.com
• Blogger
• https//www2.blogger.com/start
• Feedburner
• http//www.feedburner.com/
• Flickr
• http//www.flickr.com/
• Pod Safe Audio
• http//www.podsafeaudio.com
• Podcasting Tutorial
• http//www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com

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PodCatchers and Podcast Directories

• Indie Podder
• http//iPodder.org
• Podcast Alley
• http//www.podcastalley.com
• Podcast Bunker
• http//www.podcastbunker.com
• Podcast.net
• http//www.podcast.net
• Podcatcher directory
• http//www.podcastalley.com/forum/links/php

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Educational Podcasting Sites

• 2cents worth
• http//davidwarlick.com/2cents/
• DArcy Norman dot net
• http//www.darcynorman.net/
• The Educational Mac
• http//theeducationalmac.blogspot.com/
• The Education Podcast Network
• http//www.epnweb.org/
• Edupodder
• http//www.edupodder.com/

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What you will need

• Microphone
• Many computers have an internal mike.
• You may plug an external mike in also.
• Headphones
• Plug into the computer to allow you to monitor
  your voice as others will hear it
• Software
• An audio editing software such as Audacity

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Recording your Podcast

• Follow the directions from the program you are
  using to record your voice.
• Basically will click on the record button and
  talk into the mike. You can listen to your
  recording.
• If you are satisfied move on to the editing
  process. If you are not satisfied, rerecord and
  then move onto editing.

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Now lets EDIT your podcast

• Audacity will allow you to edit your recorded
  voice tracks.
• It allows you to
• delete unwanted quiet
• pick your best parts from each recording
• join the best parts together
• Add fun personal touches
• Remember when you add music and other clips from
  the internet, avoid commercial music that will
  need a license agreement to use it.
• Always cite anything you use from the internet
• Some sites that have sounds that are free to use
  are
• http//www.findsounds.com/
• http//www.opuzz.com/
• Once you are content with your recording, export
  it as an AIFF file.
• Here is a link to the Audacity Tutorial

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Editing Using Audacity

• Lets learn how to edit using Audacity!!

Editing With Audacity
Record With Audacity
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Converting your recording

• Drag the audio file into iTunes
• Select
• Edit
• Preferences
• Advanced
• Importing
• Import Using
• Select MP3 Encoder

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Uploading your Podcast

• Once you have completed the conversion, you are
  ready to upload your podcast to the web.
• Upload the file to a Web server
• Most ISPs offer free Web space for their
  customers
• If your ISP doesnt offer free space, you can
  usually find someone to host your audio files for
  a small fee.

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Publishing your Podcast

• Podcasts are published by RSS (Real Simple
  Syndication) feeds.
• Here are a few RSS software options
• www.feedforall.com
• www.makepropaganda.com
• www.podbus.com

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Recording with Audacityhttp//audacity.sourceforg
e.net/manual-1.2/tutorial_basics_4.html

• Click on the red Record   button to begin
  recording.
• Click on the blue Pause  button to pause the
  recording. Press it again to continue.
• Click on the yellow Stop  button to cease
  recording. The cursor will return to its previous
  position, before the recording was started.
• That's it. You can now play around with your
  recording and explore the editing capabilities of
  Audacity. Remember that you can use the Undo
  function almost without limits whilst the project
  is open.

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Editing with Audacity

• The best way to edit your podcast is to use the
  Audacity software. Audacity is a free software
  that is compatible with most PCs AND Macs!
  Audacity is very straightforward and easy to use,
  making it a great resource in creating your
  podcast. A link to download Audacity can be
  found in the Resources section of this
  PowerPoint.
• The following tips on editing your podcast come
  directly from this AWESOME Audacity tutorial
  http//audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutoria
  ls.html

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• The Basics Cut, Copy, Paste your Audio
• Just like any Microsoft program, you can use your
  keyboard shortcuts to
• assist you in cutting (CTRL X for a PC or Apple
  X), copying (CTRL C), and pasting (CTRL V)
  audio clips.
• The site offers a Keyboard Command list that is a
  GREAT resource http//audacity.sourceforge.net/ma
  nual-1.2/keyboard_shortcuts.html
• The Main Menu command list http//audacity.sourc
  eforge.net/manual-1.2/toolbar.htmltimeshift

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Editing with Audacity Credit http//audacity.sou
rceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• Lets get started. We will pretend that you have
  a recorded audio clip already open in Audacity.
• recording on MP3.aup
• To make a cut, you first must make a selection of
  the clip to be cut by selecting the Selection
  tool, just like in this screen capture shot.
• This tool is used to move the entire audio clip
  around inside its track.

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• It is used to move the entire audio clip around
  inside its track.
• The cursor (little blinking line across a track
  and the timeline) will remain at its position, so
  effectively you'll be sliding your audio material
  underneath the cursor.
• Let's say we want to cut out that bit in the
  middle then. First we've got to select it.

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• To select the part you wish to cut, copy or paste
  to, use the selection tool . If it's not
  activated, do so now by clicking on it in the
  toolbar.
• Now press and hold the left mouse button while
  you drag the mouse to mark an area.

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• This area is darker than the surrounding area of
  the clip. Note, that even though you can mark an
  area larger than or extending beyond the actual
  audio clip in the track, the operations will only
  work on the actual clip. Playback however will
  work outside the clip.
• Press the space bar to listen to the audio in the
  marked area.

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• Cut the selection by selecting "Cut" from the
  Edit menu ...  or press CTRLX.
• Before the Cut
• After the Cut
• To undo this operation, select Undo in the Edit
  menu or press CTRLZ

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Editing with AudacityCredit http//audacity.sour
ceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

• Copy will copy the selection to the clipboard.
• You can then paste that data back in to any track
  by clicking where you want this audio to be
  inserted and select Paste in the Edit menu, or
  press CTRLV.
• Thus pasting is the opposite of cutting. You can
  also copy material, make another selection with
  the mouse and then paste. This will replace the
  selected material with the contents of the
  clipboard, no matter how short or long either of
  them are.

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