Podcasting

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Podcasting

• Sandy Stuart-Bayer
• Library Media Specialist
• Lees Summit High School
• Lees Summit, MO

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Podcasts

• Have the potential to provide
• Real
• Rich
• Relevant
• Learning

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Podcasting

• What is it?
• An audio broadcast converted to an MP3 file (or
  other audio file format) for digital playback.
• Time-shifted content-
• Listen to whatever, whenever, wherever!
• However
• Real-time content consumption
• It takes a minute to consume a minute.
• My problem Not enough ear time!

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Educational uses for Listening to Podcasts

• Book reviews
• Tutorials
• Written or oral responses to readings or programs
• Independent study, review, info for absent
  students
• Useful information, enjoyment
• Examples
• David Warlicks EPN broadcast Science Fridays
• LSHS LMC All Things Reading

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Listening to Podcasts

• You need two things
• A way to find podcasts
• Directories/search
• A way to download podcasts
• Aggregators or podcatchers
• Sometimes, these are two separate processes.
• Sometimes, one site does both.

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Listening to Podcasts

• Where to find Podcasts?
• iTunes
• Podcast directories
• Podshow
• PodcastAlley
• Watch out for ads
• Podcast.net

• For educators
• Education Podcast Network
• LISPodcasts
• iTunes
• education links

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Listening to Podcasts

• How do I download podcasts after I find them?
• Catch them in a podcatcher
• Juice
• iTunes
• Playback
• On an iPod or other MP3 player,
• From a computer, or
• Burned onto and played from a CD

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Creating a podcast

• You will need
• A computer or digital audio recorder
• A microphone
• Recording Software
• Audacity (Its free!) or GarageBand (Macs only)
• MP3 encoder
• Lame (Also free). See http//sourceforge.net/proje
  ct/showfiles.php?group_id290
• Server space an FTP client (no FTP client
  needed if using district network)
• Or a friendly librarian who will post it for you!
• RSS Feed
• Handcode
• Use blogging software and Feedburner
• Use Podbasket (Easiest! And also free!)
• Or FeedforAll

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• RSS Feed
• Handcode
• Use blogging software and Feedburner
• Use Podbasket (Easiest! And also free!)
• Use FeedforAll
• Some of the pundits claim that its not really
  a podcast unless it is set up as a feed to
  broadcast out through subscriptions. Otherwise,
  its an online audio file.
• But, lots of people call it a podcast, either
  way.

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Podcasting

• For more information on Podcasting, see
• Podcasting 101 by Greg Schwartz
• http//podcasting101.pbwiki.com/
• Podcasting 101 by Jenny Levine
• (Same title, different author)
• http//www.mls.lib.il.us/cats.cfm?catid205s4

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Screencasting

• A screencast is a digital movie in which the
  setting is partly or wholly a computer screen,
  and in which audio narration describes the
  on-screen action.
• Technology /software tutorials
• A newer use stories about software-based
  cultures such as Wikipedia
• Tools for screencasting
• Camtasia (capturing, editing, and production)
• Weak on video editing
• Smart Board Notebook-sort of
• Windows Media Encoder (for Windows)
• Convenient, no editing capability
• Snapz Pro X, edited by iMovie (for Macs)
• Excellent quality

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The Read/Write Web

• Its a whole new world!
• Have fun with it as you and your students learn!