podcasting -- a guide
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Podcasting – A guide
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What is a podcast?
• Essentially a radio show
• Distributed over the internet
• Not live – listen whenever you want
Download and play on your PC, ormobile devices such as mobile phones,iPods and other MP3 players
What to podcast?
2 main ways
• as a way to deliver content to your students. – Think of a podcast as a lesson to take away:
• as a means to showcase your students’ work. – Students recording podcasts as assignments
or class tasks
School news
Local, National, International news
Discuss topics that are taking place and how it relates to them or their studies
Audio books – record for themselves or for younger readers
Instructional guides – students create for each other. Or teacher produces to guide them.
Interviews
Interview members of staff, students, members of the community, and visitors to school.
Pupil Voices
Talk about themselves and topics that interest them; for an example, the Youth Voices Project: http://yv.wamu.org/index.php
Revision
Audio versions of lesson notes – important points and information. Student or teacher-created.
learning benefits:
• pupils or staff can listen when and where they want, at their own pace, in a relaxed environment
• the process of recording and editing can deepen pupils' understanding of key concepts
• pupils can develop their speaking, listening and writing skills
From: http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2008/09/the-educational.html
learning benefits:
• pupils can listen as many times as is necessary for them to embed ideas
• opportunities for pupil voice, peer assessment and collaborative work
• struggling readers can make accelerated progress by listening back to themselves or their teacher reading on headphones
From: http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2008/09/the-educational.html
To make a podcast
• Microphone / audio recorder
• Editing software such as Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/• Somewhere to host the podcast
• Imagination / Inspiration
Podsafe music
• You will usually not be allowed to use commercial music for copyright reasons.
• Some artists allow their music to be played in podcasts.
http://www.podsafeaudio.com
http://music.podshow.com/
http://www.jamendo.com/
http://www.freesound.org/ (for FX)
Examples
• http://www.downs.kent.sch.uk/downsfm/
• http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/radio_sandaig/index.php
• http://sta.hcdsb.org/media/aquicast/
• http://www.revisionsuccess.co.uk/revision.htm
• For the latest list of sites relevant to podcasting, go to http://delicious.com/dannynic/podcast
• http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=367
• http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2008/09/the-educational.html