1. Podcasts & RSS Feeds in the Classroom
What is this?
How can these be used in my instruction?

2. 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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4. Sample Video Podcasts  Personal Professional Development
Diversity Podcast
 Instructional
Teacher Created Samples
Figurative Language Podcast
Secondary Math
Student Created (instructional OR demonstration of learning)
Elementary Math

5. Sample Audio Podcasts Great Site for Free Audio Podcasts
Learn Out Loud
You Can Search by Topic
Kipling Poem “If”
Eleanor Roosevelt Address the General Assembly

6. Great Podcast Websites
Podcast.Com Channels
National Public Radio
Education Podcast Network

7. What is a Podcast?
iPod
Broadcast
Podcast

8. Podcast is Just a Digital File
2 Types of Podcasts
Video Format
Audio and Video
Audio Format
Sound Only

9. But I Don’t Have an iPod!
Play the audio or video podcasts on…

10. What is So Great About Podcasting?
Any Time
Any Where
Learning

11. 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

12. Questions?

13. iTunes Thousands of Educational Podcasts
iTunes Gathers Podcasts From Hundreds of Websites
And Puts Them in the iTunes Store—These are FREE
iTunes is a Free Download

14. iTunes Home Page

15. Thousands of Podcasts
Filter by:
Video Podcasts
Audio Podcasts
Topically

16. Click to get
More information
About the podcast
Click to Download
The FREE Podcast
Double Click
To Play Podcast

17. Open iTunes on Your Desktop
Participant Activity
Open iTunes on Your Desktop
Explore the Podcast Area

18. I Found Some Great Resources…Now What Do I Do?

19. Options You Can Just Listen to Them Within iTunes Or
You Can Download Them From iTunes

20. Your iTunes Library Your Playlists Everything you download first
Goes here.
Your Playlists
You can build
topical playlists

21. When Podcast is Downloading…
Download Symbol is
Rotating

22. Participant Activity
Download 2 Podcasts of Your Choice

23. Now What? Where Did They Go?
Click on “Podcasts” in your Library
In Menu Bar, go to Edit>Preferences
This location can be
Changed at any time

24. Today You Downloaded 2 Podcasts
They went to the hard drive
on the computer you are on now.
Let’s take them from this hard drive
and put them on your U Drive

25. Participant Activity 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

26. How Do I Share These With My Students?
Option 1:
Upload Them
To Your
Class Website!
(Consider file size)
Uploading Files to Your SharpSchool
Website is Covered in SharpSchool Module 2!

27. But I Don’t Have Time to Continually Check iTunes for New Releases!

28. PART 2

29. That Brings Us to Another Option On How To Share These Podcasts With Your Students
RSS Feeds

30. Up Until Now… We have talked about locating podcasts for
classroom and/or professional
development purposes. We’ve located them on
individual websites and in iTunes. We’ve done all the work looking for podcasts.
Now we are going to learn how to automatically
pull in podcasts AND other content-related
resources

31. RSS Feeds in Plain English

32. Really Simple Syndication
What is an RSS Feed?
Really Simple Syndication
Subscribe
You

33. 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

34. How Do I Manage All These Podcasts Which I Subscribe To??

35. iTunes Is One Option for audio and video podcasts
because there is no limit on
how many subscriptions
you can have

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

37. Subscribing to Listed in iTunes
Find a Series
Click on “Subscribe”

38. Managing
Your
Subscriptions

39. Frequency to Check for Downloads on Subscriptions
Settings by
Series or
Settings for
All Podcasts
Which Episode to Download
How Many to Keep on Your Hard Drive

40. 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 have
another option…just download them to your hard
drive or external storage device

41. Searching the Web for Podcasts
Participant Activity
Searching the Web for Podcasts
Google Search Samples
“children reading podcasts”
“Science experiment podcasts”
“math podcasts”
Etc.

42. Can I Save Podcasts Without Subscribing to Them?
Take iTunes out of the Picture.
You can just locate podcasts and save them
to your hard drive!

43. Most Podcasts Are Downloadable
Yes! Even Without Going Through
iTunes. Just Locate a Podcast and Then
Save It to Your Hard Drive
Most Podcasts Are Downloadable
Point Cursor to “Play” or “Download”
Right Click
“Save Target As…”
Save to Your Selected Location

44. Up Until Now… We have been talking about locating podcasts,
subscribing to them through iTunes if you wanted to,
or just locating podcasts and downloading them
to your hard drive.
But iTunes doesn’t handle just text items you want
to subscribe to—like news feeds, website updates, etc.

45. What About Subscribing to a Website
What About Subscribing to a Website? I want to know when a website is updated… I want the news delivered to me… I want to follow an educational blog…

46. Participant Activity
Bringing News Feeds into Your SharpSchool Website: Practice Activity Go to

47. Follow These Steps to Add to Your Class Website
Always Look for an RSS Subscribe Link
Search for the URL of the Feed
Follow These Steps to Add to Your Class Website
Adding an RSS Feed to Your SharpSchool Page (Handout)

48. 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

49. How Can Podcasting Support Your Curriculum?
Reflection
How Can Podcasting Support Your Curriculum?

50. Atomic Learning Podcast Videos
What is a podcast?
Anatomy of a Podcast
iTunes and podcasts
Setting preferences for itunes handling podcasts
Downloading individual episodes of a podcast
Detailed info on a podcast
Unsubscribing to a podcast
iTunes gathering podcasts automatically for you
Adding an address of an RSS feed when you have the URL – in the Advanced menu