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Podcasting and Vodcasting for Sharing Learning

ICT for Learning – Nightcliff Technology Precinct

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SonicPics on the iPod

Create a custom slideshow movie with your images and voice and share it.

•Add images

•Narrate your images

•Flip to each image as you are ready

•Share via your computer

•Upload directly to YouTube

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Sonic Pics in the Classroom

Mazenod Boys College (WA)

Year 10 Industry and Enterprise class

Create a short movie to persuade an audience that a chosen man should be considered an excellent male role model

Purpose:

•Sequence ideas

•Use voice effectively

•Give purpose to a written product

•Use images and voice to persuade an audience

•Create narratives and photo essays

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Sonic Pics in the Classroom

Louise Duncan

Secondary Teacher, Victoria

Year 10 task:

Create a review for an Application (app) using only your iPod touch. Use Sonic Pics to make your movie.

Benefits:

•prolonged and intense concentration

•collaboration

•exploration

•skill sharing

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What is Podcasting?

• an audio file on the Internet

• accessed on a personal computer or portable MP3 player

• iPod + broadcast = podcast

• 'Podcast' generally refers to audio

• 'Video Podcast' (or 'Vodcast') refers to video

• can be released episodically

• users can receive notification of new episodes via subscriptions to RSS feeds.

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Podcasting with Voki

What is a Voki?

•A talking avatar

Create your Voki Add audio Share via a unique URL or

embed code

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How to Really Podcast

• Make a recordingEg. Audacity or GarageBand

• Publish it as an MP3 fileEg. Audacity + Lame MP3 EncoderEg. Podbean or Podomatic

• Publicise the podcastEg. via a linkEg. via an RSS feed Embed into a SharePoint portal site, wiki, blog or

website

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Community Clips for Vodcasting

• Capture your computer screen and voice to make a video

• Open with Windows Live Movie Maker for editing

• Share from Windows Live Movie Maker via:

Skydrive Facebook YouTube Flickr

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Why Pod/vodcast?

• Educators can meet students

• Mobility

• Reinforce concepts

• Reinforce writing and reading skills

• Conduct alternative assessments of students

• Global audience

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General Uses

• Class and student newsletters

• Oral presentations

How to’s

• Interviews

• Revision Virtual field trips

• Teacher lessons

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Examples of Podcasts in the Classroom

Balcatta Senior High School (WA)

Human Biology task: prepare a podcast summary that is useful as a study aid on two topics

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Examples of Podcasts in the Classroom

Mt Lawley Senior High School (WA)

Richard Meagher (teacher) produces high school chemistry and physics podcasts ready to be downloaded onto an MP3

player.

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Podkids Australia

A podcast by students at Orange Grove Primary School (WA)

Students publish podcasts about events happening in their school:

•NAIDOC Week

•Pre Primary Ponderings

•Prime Minister of Australia Interview

•AFL West Coast Eagles Interview

•Reviews for Book Week

Examples of Podcasts in the Classroom

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Vodcasting in the Classroom

Pre-Vodcasting and the Flipped Classroom

•Students watch vodcasts at home

•Class time is spent on hands-on activities and problem solving

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Further Information

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