1. Give Your Students A Voice Podcasting in your classroom.

2. CLU Credit 2 hours instruction in March Assign a project to students Email sample project to Denise Beeman for course credit and 3 CLUs dbeeman@ebrschools.org

3. What is a Podcast? An audio or video presentation in.mp3 (audio),.wmv (video-Win) or.mov (video-Mac) format. A true podcast is essentially an episode of a recurring broadcast that listeners or viewers can subscribe to. The Common Craft Show

4. Curriculum Teacher Created Podcasts: –Open House Presentation –Announce Special School or Classroom Event –Remediation –Homework Help posted to Classroom Website Student Created Podcasts: –Digital Storytelling –Oral Reading Fluency –Book Review/Book Report –Research Report –Science – SS Fair Projects –Biographies

5. Educational Samples Math Teacher Podcast Math Student Podcast *Math Student Podcast* Who’s On First Elem. Poetry Reading EBR Teacher – Se ñ or JohnsonEBR Teacher 8 th Grade Original Poetry8 th Grade Original Poetry Our City Podcast Radio Willow Web

6. Student Retention

7. What Do I Need? Microphone (attached to your PC) Sound Recording Software –AudacityAudacity Video camera (for Vodcasts) –Creative VadoCreative Vado –FlipFlip Hosting Site (…more on that later!) Free (and legal) background music –Freeplaymusic.comFreeplaymusic.com –http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos/http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos/ Ideas

8. Audacity FREE audio editing software Download at http://audacity.sourceforge.net http://audacity.sourceforge.net Download the LAME encoder at http://tinyurl.com/gapy6 http://tinyurl.com/gapy6 Create an Audio Play Podcast (Group) –Macbeth: Act 3, Scene 3

9. Photostory Free for Windows users Must install from disk or download from http://tiny.cc/g1KEL http://tiny.cc/g1KEL Hands-on: Math Tutorial - Percent to Fractions Hands-on: Langston Hughes Poetry Reading

10. Hosting Site Screencast Create a free account Video and Audio – 2GB Storage and 2GB Bandwidth Accepts mp3, mov, m4v, mp4, wmv files Subscribe to the Multimedia Magic Podcast at http://www.screencast.com/t/4h0Lb2N2http://www.screencast.com/t/4h0Lb2N2

11. Create Your First Podcast Create Screencast account Choose a project –Poetry Reading (Audacity) –Math Tutorial Record Multimedia file Upload file