Introduction to Podcasting

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Introduction to Podcasting
Please make a nametag help yourself to snacks
and WGTE Resources

• Educational Resource Center
• WGTE Public Media

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Session Goals

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Podcasting
  technical requirements, pieces and parts
• Identify instructional strategies for
  implementation in the classroom through
  exploration and best practice sharing
• Go through the entire Podcasting process to
  develop your first episode!

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Our Agenda

• Introduction to Audacity
• Using Music and Sound Effects
• Lunch
• Publishing
• Review sites, setup account
• Legal Issues in Podcasting
• Implementation! Prepare, Record and
  Publish a group Podcast
• Debrief
• Finding Quality Content Podcasts
• Evaluation

• Introduction Session Goals
• Exploring Podcasts
• History, Creation, Subscription
• WHY Create Podcasts?
• Podcast Basics 3 Steps
• Break
• Script Development
• Using Podcasting to Increase Student Literacy
• Tips and Components of Podcast Scripts
• Recording

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WGTE Public Media
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What is a Podcast?

• Podcasting comes from a marriage of weblogs and
  radio. - Adam Curry, co-inventor of Podcasting

1. Create Audio or Video File
2. Post Audio or Video File to a Website
3. People listen/view, and subscribe
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Podcasting History

• Distribution of Audio and Video files has been
  occurring since long before the internet.
  Podcasting is different because of the
  Subscription ability
• First called Audio Blogs
• Detailed how to articles began appearing online
  around 2004
• New Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year
  2005 Podcasting
• August 2007 iTunes holds hundreds of thousands
  of FREE Podcasts

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Creating Audio/Video Files

• Well talk about this later, but one thing is
  important
• All Web Audio/Video DOES NOT equal Podcasting!
• To be a Podcast, you must
• Be Able to Subscribe
• Have episodes

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How does the Subscription Technology Work?

• Real Simple Syndication (RSS) (aka Rich Site
  Summary)
• XML Web Feed that reaches out to the website
  the podcaster is posting on and brings it to your
  aggregator (usually iTunes)

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How Do I Subscribe?

• 1. Browse a Podcast Aggregator, also known as
  Podcatcher (iTunes, Podcast Alley, and more)
• OR
• 2. Find a podcast on a website you like anyway
  (BBC, PBS, NPR)

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Subscribing to a Podcast

• Download iTunes to your computer
  www.apple.com/itunes
• Go to the iTunes Store, Click Podcasts
• Search for your Podcast interests
• Either download individual episodes or subscribe

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So Do I Need an iPod or Not?

• NOT
• Podcasts can be listened to using a program on
  the computer or easily moved to mobile device,
  such as an iPod.
• However, remind me to talk about how some
  teachers are using these later.

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So to sum up

• An Educational Video

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Three Types of Podcasts

• Audio
• Our City Dazzling Dayton
• Enhanced Audio
• House on Maple Street
• Video, aka Vodcast (Video On Demand-cast)
• PBS Frontline World Report Women in China

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WHY Create Podcasts?
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WHY Create Podcasts?
Vocal and instrumental Practice and critiques
Slide presentations
Entertainment
Music
Public Speaking
Photo slide shows
Vodcasting
ESL and languages
Visual sharing
Audio sharing
Podcasting
Teamwork
Storage
Interactive Multimedia
Podcasting Production
Activities
Journalism
Public speaking
Literature and Poetry
Lecture sharing
Lecture recording and note taking
Study Skills
Julie Meyer and Pam Berman March 2006 Institute
for Interactive Technologies, Bloomsburg
University of Pennsylvania
Interviewing skills
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3 Steps to Podcast Creation

• Prepare
• Record
• Publish

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Preparing Students to Podcast

• Reminder A trial error period is essential,
  and organization is key!