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

Can listenthrough websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

http://www.downs.kent.sch.uk/downsfm

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