Podcasts & RSS Feeds inthe Classroom

What is this?How can these be used in my instruction?

Agenda• How do all our electronic solutions fit

together?• What are podcasts and RSS feeds?• How do I locate them?• What do I do with them after I find them?• How can they enhance my instruction?• What’s the next step?

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Sample Video Podcasts

Personal Professional DevelopmentDiversity Podcast

InstructionalTeacher Created Samples

Figurative Language PodcastSecondary Math

Student Created (instructional OR demonstration of learning)Elementary MathSecondary Math

Sample Audio Podcasts

Great Site for Free Audio Podcasts

Learn Out Loud

You Can Search by Topic

Eleanor Roosevelt Address the General Assembly

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#directory

Kipling Poem “If”

Great Podcast Websites

http://education.podcast.com/

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=11&openpod=16#anchor16

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=190&openpod=16#anchor16

Education Podcast Network

Podcast.Com Channels

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

National Public Radio

What is a Podcast?

iPod Broadcast

Podcast

Podcast is Just a Digital File

Audio FormatSound Only

Video FormatAudio and

Video

2 Types of Podcasts

But I Don’t Have an iPod!

Play the audio or video podcasts on…

What is So Great About Podcasting?

Any TimeAny WhereLearning

Where Do Podcasts Come From?• Hundreds of Thousands are on the Web• Most Major Websites (NASA, etc.)• Educational in Nature: Great PD Opportunity• A Manner to Share Information—valuable

and not-so-valuable• Anyone Can Create and Share—on the web

or through another means

You Tube and Teacher Tube

Questions?

iTunesThousands of Educational

Podcasts

iTunes is a Free Downloadhttp://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iTunes Gathers Podcasts From Hundreds of WebsitesAnd Puts Them in the iTunes Store—These are FREE

iTunes Home Page

Thousands of Podcasts

Filter by:

• Video Podcasts• Audio Podcasts• Topically

Double Click To Play Podcast

Click to getMore informationAbout the podcast

Click to DownloadThe FREE Podcast

Open iTunes on Your Desktop

Explore the Podcast Area

Participant Activity

I Found Some Great Resources…Now What Do

I Do?

Options

You Can Just Listen to Them Within iTunes

Or

You Can Download Them From iTunes

Your iTunes Library

Everything youdownload firstGoes here.

Your PlaylistsYou can buildtopical playlists

When Podcast is Downloading…

Download Symbol isRotating

Download 2 Podcasts of Your Choice

Participant Activity

Now What?Where Did They Go?

•Click on “Podcasts” in your Library•In Menu Bar, go to Edit>Preferences

This location can beChanged at any time

Today You Downloaded 2 PodcastsThey went to the hard drive

on the computer you are on now.

Let’s take them from this hard driveand put them on your U Drive

• On Your U Drive, make a folder called “Podcasts”

• Navigate to the podcasts which you just downloaded onto the hard drive of your computer

• Right click on the file• Send to > the Podcast folder you made on

your U Drive

Participant Activity

Option 1: Upload Them

To YourClass Website!

(Consider file size)

Uploading Files to Your SharpSchool

Website is Covered in SharpSchool Module 2!

How Do I Share These With My Students?

But I Don’t Have Time to Continually Check iTunes for New

Releases!

PART 2

That Brings Us to Another OptionOn How To Share These Podcasts

With Your Students

RSS Feeds

Up Until Now…

We have talked about locating podcasts forclassroom and/or professional

development purposes. We’ve located them onindividual websites and in iTunes. We’ve done

all the work looking for podcasts.

Now we are going to learn how to automaticallypull in podcasts AND other content-related

resources

RSS Feeds in Plain English

What is an RSS Feed?

Really Simple Syndication

You

Subscribe

When You Subscribe…As a Person Posts a New Podcast to Their Website, You Get It Downloaded Automatically if You Have

Subscribed to the Podcast

Same Concept of a Magazine Subscription

How Do I Manage All These Podcasts Which I

Subscribe To??

iTunesIs One Option

for audio and video podcastsbecause there is no limit on

how many subscriptionsyou can have

iTunes is a “Compiler” or “Aggregator”For Audio and Video Podcasts

Subscribing to Listed in iTunes

• Find a Series• Click on “Subscribe”

Managing Your

Subscriptions

Frequency to Check for Downloads on Subscriptions

Settings bySeries orSettings forAll Podcasts

Which Episode to Download

How Many to Keep on Your Hard Drive

What if I Find Podcasts on the Web That I Like But They Aren’t Listed in iTunes?

You can force iTunes to pull them in but you haveanother option…just download them to your hard

drive or external storage device

Searching the Web for Podcasts

Google Search Samples“children reading podcasts”

“Science experiment podcasts”“math podcasts”

Etc.

Participant Activity

Can I Save Podcasts Without Subscribingto Them?

Take iTunes out of the Picture.You can just locate podcasts and save them

to your hard drive!

Most Podcasts Are Downloadable

• Point Cursor to “Play” or “Download”• Right Click

• “Save Target As…”• Save to Your Selected Location

Yes! Even Without Going ThroughiTunes. Just Locate a Podcast and Then

Save It to Your Hard Drive

Up Until Now…

But iTunes doesn’t handle just text items you wantto subscribe to—like news feeds, website updates, etc.

We have been talking about locating podcasts, subscribing to them through iTunes if you wanted to,

or just locating podcasts and downloading themto your hard drive.

What About Subscribing to aWebsite?

I want to know when a website is updated…

I want the news delivered to me…I want to follow an educational blog…

Bringing News Feeds into Your SharpSchool Website:

Practice ActivityGo to

http://www.classroommanagement101.com/blog/

Participant Activity

Follow These Steps to Add to Your Class Website

Adding an RSS Feed to Your SharpSchool Page (Handout)

Always Look for an RSS Subscribe Link

Search for the URL of the Feed

Follow-Up to This Class

• Consider Creating Your Own Podcasts• Consider Having Your Students Create

Podcasts: Instructional or Demonstration of Learning

• Enroll in “Creating Audio Podcasts”• Enroll in “Creating Video Podcasts”• Consider Posting Podcasts on Your

Class Website

Reflection

How Can Podcasting Support Your Curriculum?

Atomic Learning Podcast Videos• What is a podcast? http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/32619/play

• Anatomy of a Podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/32620/play

• iTunes and podcasts http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/18118/play

• Setting preferences for itunes handling podcasts http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17973/play

• Downloading individual episodes of a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17977/play

• Detailed info on a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17979/play

• Unsubscribing to a podcast http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17978/play

• iTunes gathering podcasts automatically for you http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17966/play

• Adding an address of an RSS feed when you have the URL – in the Advanced menu http://movies.atomiclearning.com/movie/k12/17975/play