Say it again… With Podcasting With Podcasting Brandon Herder and Melissa Tredenick Say it again…

Say it again… With Podcasting Why Podcasting in Education? For lectures To facilitate self-paced learning For interviews with external resources To offer advanced and or highly motivated learners extra content For distance learning To allow guest speakers to present once too many classes To feature guest speakers from remote locations For helping students with reading and/or other disabilities To offer a richer learning environment For multi-lingual education To communicate with your community

Is There Really a Need? Poor quality of student note taking skills –Poor handwriting –Poor listening skills –Inability to differentiate important content from non- important content The FAST talking teacher Note taking counter productive to listening… for some students

Say it again… With Podcasting Memory Retention 20 minutes47% forgotten 1 day62% forgotten 2 days69% forgotten 75 days75% forgotten 78 days78% forgotten *Walter Pauk (Cornel 84)

Podcasting at Christ School Spanish Class uses Digital Voice Recorders for student and teacher. History Teacher records “enrichment lectures” and places on Blackboard. Drama students use to record lines and then put on Ipod ® to learn. Video Recording of Lectures (AP Bio)

Say it again… With Podcasting

What we’ve learned… Students act differently when being recorded (AP Chem) Digital Voice Recorders record in files (no pausing) Video files are often bulky and take up a lot of room on the server (be sure to compress)

Say it again… With Podcasting How does it work? Turn on your recording software or digital recorder Speak Save as an MP3 file Upload to a web server or your Blackboard site Advanced – Update RSS

Say it again… With Podcasting Tools to get started Computer –PC –Mac –Linux Audio recording software –Audacity (free – multi-platform) –Garage Band (Mac)

Say it again… With Podcasting Tools to get started cont. Microphone –Headset style –Wireless –Personal digital recorder ($50ish) Blackboard Site Advanced –RSS editor –Podcast aggregator iTunes (PC, Mac) Juice (PC, Mac, Linux) –MP3 player (Optional)

Say it again… With Podcasting Install the software first from the CD Be sure to select the option to “Convert to MP3 before Saving” Audacity is a free and helpful tool for editing.

Say it again… With Podcasting

The Next Step… H.264 Format MP4 Apple Ipod for small video (I use small version-low quality)

The Next Step… 1.Record the Class with video camera 2.Upload the video using Windows Movie Maker (or other $$ program) 3.Edit Video and Save File 4.Download a free Video Converter or use the Itunes Pro Version 5.Post Video for download