Audio und video podcasting in Web 2'0

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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!
Photos Karsten Schillies, screenshots from WDR
local news Berg. Land, Podcast DVD MedienLB
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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!

Project Overview
Learning Areas
German, English, Biology, Geography, Physics and
all other subjects (to be prepared)
Creatiyity, advancement of language skills, how
to use and to produce media
Objectives
Hard-/Software
Windows XP Prof., Audacity, webcam or optional
digital photo camera with video recording,
internal microphone oder external USB microphone
Samson CO3U, XP MovieMaker, free account at
www.podhost.de (or MAC OS 10.4/5, Audacity,
webcam or optional digital photocamera with video
recording, ex-/internal microphone, Garageband,
I-Video)
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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!

• Receptive field of application Podcasts as a
  teaching resource
• Almost all the TV and radio networks podcast
  their (news) broadcasts. Podcasts serve as a
  collection of material for subject-specific
  teaching.
• e.g.
• Audio podcast English as a Second Language
• Video podcast National Geographic Wild Chronicles
• Video podcast Quarks Co (click the links to
  get to the podcasts)
• Productive field of application Creating
  podcasts in lessons
• Producing one's own podcasts ( podcasting)
  demands and supports methods of active and
  independent learning, worldwide publishing and
  evaluating the product. This helps to increase
  learner motivation.

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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!

• Training of crucial skills in the learning
  process
• structuring What do we want to work on
  and how?
• doing research I'll get some
  information.
• cooperating Team up.
• producing Let's put it together.
• presenting/
• publishing I'll explain it to you.
• giving and getting
• a feedback I can evaluate others
  people's work.

Slidely modified and taken from Wolfgang
Vaupel, Medienberatung NRW, Auf dem Weg zu
einer neuen Lernkultur Theorie, Praxis und
Auswirkungen, Presentation on 25.10.2007.
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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!

• How to podcast?
• Step 1
• Collecting ideas
• Agreeing on a topic
• Collecting materials
• Looking through and sifting out
• what looks interesting
• Step 3
• Record with microphone and
• digital camera/webcam if necessary
• Less editing is more!

• Step 2
• Giving out parts
• Designing and building the set
• Rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing!

• Step 4
• Processing of audio data e.g. by adding music and
  
• special effects using Audacity and creating an
  mp3 file.
• Processing of video files by fitting in
  opening-/end credits, fade ins/outs with
  XP-MovieMaker or alternative programmes and
• exporting the product as a file (e.g. wmv or
  mp4 file).

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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!
How to Podcast two films say more than a
thousand words Television report of WDR lokal
news of Dezember 2007 Excerpt from
the educational DVD Podcasting what is it?
Modern teaching . (by MedienLB and
Hardenbergschule available languages German,
English, Turkish)
Please cklick in the pictures to start the
videos (wmv file).
The German chancellor Mrs. Merkel does podcasts
of course students of Hardenbergschool do it,
too. (Quotation WDR)
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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!
Examples of audio and video podcasts
GHS Hardenbergschule, Velbert November 2007 we
installed www.hardenberg.podspot.de and published
the first self-made subject-specific audio and
video podcasts. They relate to the subjects
German, Englisch, Biology, Geography and
Physics. Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium,
Leverkusen The podcast site www.biology-is-fun.pod
spot.de resulted from the cooperation with WHG
2007. The videop odcasts were developed and
created during exame revision as well as in
normal lessons.
The video podcasts are available in
mp4-format. VLC-player is suitable for
viewing. Audiofiles are streamed in the
Flash-plugin in your browser. There is a
feedback option for each episode.
In all podcast productions special emphasis was
placed on the students' spoken language
skills, which means that each productions was
recorded at one go.
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Did you get it? Then let's go! Don't just
consume produce in Web 2.0!
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Audio and video podcasting in Web 2.0
Don't just consume produce!
The friendly school in the country
Participating teachers
Birgit Krämer Karsten Schillies
WHG-Leverkusen Hardenbergschule
(Kompetenzteam NRW,
Düsseldorf/Mettmann)
GHS Hardenbergschule Waldschlößchen 37 42553
Velbert-Neviges Tel. [phone] Homepage
www.hardenbergschule.de Mail info_at_hardenbergschul
e.de