Podcasting

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Podcasting

• Portable On Demand Broadcasting

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Today

• Educational uses of podcasts
• Create a podcast
• Create an RSS feed (XML file)
• Publish the podcast and XML file
• Validate the XML file
• Subscribe to the feed
• http//www.mtsu.edu/podcast

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Educational Podcasts

• Extend class time
• Provide review activities
• Record Student work

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The ability to listen to a lecture multiple times

• Students can also stop the lecture, rewind to a
  previous part, and start again.
• Controls allow students to skip forward to a
  specific point in the lecture.

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Flexibility in class schedule

• Students listen to the Podcast before class and
  do another activity during class that builds on
  the material from the lecture.
• Ask students to take a quiz on the lecture
  material during the first 5 or 10 minutes of the
  class
• Ensures that students have listened to the
  pre-class lecture

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Increased interaction with the instructor

• Students take notes during the podcast (the
  pre-class lecture)
• Students will be ready to participate in the
  in-class activity

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Supplement to traditional class notes.

• When instructors post in-class lectures shortly
  after class time students can go back over the
  lecture at home and fill in points that they
  missed in their written notes.

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Audio resources for students with disabilities.

• Students with various disabilities will find
  podcasts beneficial to their learning.

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Portability/Multitasking

• Student will be able to listen to your lecture at
  any time or place when they download your podcast
  to their personal media player

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Multitasking

• Students can listen to lectures while doing other
  tasks such driving, exercising, or walking
  between classes.

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Beneficial to auditory learners.

• Online (distance education) students who learn
  best by hearing may learn course content more
  quickly when they listen to your podcast rather
  than when they read your lecture content.

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Student Podcasts

• Students can work on their own or in groups
• Serve as the culminating activity for projects
• The posted projects can be used in other class
  activities - peer critiquing

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Student Podcasts

• Music Compositions
• Recitation or performance of written works
• Peer Critiquing Evaluate using online forms
• Record online radio programs
• Oral Histories

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Walking Tours

• Free access to spoken tour guides (PodGuides) for
  your iPod
• http//www.podguides.net/