Additional Resource: Podcasting
Note: this is an OPTIONAL activity
What's all the buzz about Podcasting?
What is all the buzz about podcasting? What is it and how is it relevant to education? Podcasts deliver multimedia content to a wide audience. Podcasting is a way to post and distribute digital media files online. It's a great way to freely distribute learning opportunities and information on the Internet!
Podcasts are audio or video files that have been put on a web site, that have a couple of special features. A special process (news feed RSS script) is applied so that you can 'subscribe' to the podcast, receiving new podcasts in the series as soon as they are posted to the web site. Podcasts can be 'tagged' (categorized) so that you can search for Podcasts about specific topics of interest, such as learning a foreign language, keeping up with science news, discovering interesting math facts, speeches that made history, cool grammar facts... in fact there are millions of podcasts waiting to be subscribed to.
How are they being used for K-12 education? To communicate information and meet curriculum standards as well. Students, classrooms, schools, administrators and teachers alike are creating podcasts and posting them for the public to subscribe to, and are also subscribing to podcasts to keep up-to-date on pertinent content areas.
Imagine this (and click the links to listen): You can update your grammar skills by subscribing and listening to podcasts! A teacher creates literature and writing assignments for his students. Your students can use Storynory to create and record stories that they illustrate, and post them for other students to view and listen to. Your class is studying Colonial Williamsburg and can view free video podcasts about the times. You have students interested in mathematics, and share the mathgrad.com podcasts. Your science class will never be the same when you bring in short podcasts from National Geographic. You are trying to learn Spanish as a class. Visit the Education Podcast network and find student and class podcasts as well as subject area ones.
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Aligned to NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b,1.c, 1.d, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 2.d 3.a, 3.c, 4.b
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Non-linguistic Representations
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Podcasts are audio or video files that have been put on a web site, that have a couple of special features. A special process (news feed RSS script) is applied so that you can 'subscribe' to the podcast, receiving new podcasts in the series as soon as they are posted to the web site. Podcasts can be 'tagged' (categorized) so that you can search for Podcasts about specific topics of interest, such as learning a foreign language, keeping up with science news, discovering interesting math facts, speeches that made history, cool grammar facts... in fact there are millions of podcasts waiting to be subscribed to.
How are they being used for K-12 education? To communicate information and meet curriculum standards as well. Students, classrooms, schools, administrators and teachers alike are creating podcasts and posting them for the public to subscribe to, and are also subscribing to podcasts to keep up-to-date on pertinent content areas.
Imagine this (and click the links to listen): You can update your grammar skills by subscribing and listening to podcasts! A teacher creates literature and writing assignments for his students. Your students can use Storynory to create and record stories that they illustrate, and post them for other students to view and listen to. Your class is studying Colonial Williamsburg and can view free video podcasts about the times. You have students interested in mathematics, and share the mathgrad.com podcasts. Your science class will never be the same when you bring in short podcasts from National Geographic. You are trying to learn Spanish as a class. Visit the Education Podcast network and find student and class podcasts as well as subject area ones.
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Aligned to NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b,1.c, 1.d, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 2.d 3.a, 3.c, 4.b
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Non-linguistic Representations
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What is a Podcast?
What is a podcast file then? The audio file is usually an .mp3 file, when you have still images or a slide show with the audio podcast it is called an enhanced podcast. These are frequently m4a (m4b or m4p) files. Video podcasts, also called vodcasts and vidcasts, contain video and are frequently mp4, .m4v, or .mov files.
What do you have to have to listen to a podcast? Speakers or a headset, and a device to play them with. You can subscribe from your computer using free programs (such as iTunes or Juice); You can subscribe with some cell phones; You can use an Apple iPod, mp3 music device, Palm handheld, and many of the new mobile 'game' devices. We recommend you use iTunes (it is a free download for mac and pc), and we have provided the link below.
What do I need to create my own? You will need a microphone (or your cell phone) to record your voice, a recording device (such as a computer, web site digital recorder, iPod with mic, flipvideo camera), and some software to edit the recording. There is a lot of free software available, and one of the most popular is Audacity
You will also need a web site to post your podcast on, once you have made your recording. A one-stop shop is Podomatic, where you can record and post your podcasts free. GlobalClassroom lets you request and create your own Moodle classroom online, and also to set up a free blog.globalpodder.net site where you can post your directions, podcasts, assignments, worksheets, and such. You are prompted to contact them by email to get it set up. Here is a link to a sample story about a Swan that I started in the recorded demo session on Podcasting. Check out the http://cmccarthy.podomatic.com/ example. You too can have a free account on PodOmatic.
Where do I start? Search - Subscribe - Listen
1. Download iTunes (free) from Apple and install it on your computer (Mac or PC)
2. Download and refer to the Podcasting for Teachers & Students book listed below for subscribing.
3. Search for podcasts, and subscribe to a few to get a feeling for the potential!
4. Enjoy discovering that new episodes are automatically downloaded to iTunes for you when a new one is posted.
5. ISTE links to current magazine articles about Podcasting
6. http://teachdigital.pbworks.com/podcasting has great resources
Podcasting with a Mac
Check out teacher Angela Clark-Pohlod's Create a Podcast Using Garageband.
What do you have to have to listen to a podcast? Speakers or a headset, and a device to play them with. You can subscribe from your computer using free programs (such as iTunes or Juice); You can subscribe with some cell phones; You can use an Apple iPod, mp3 music device, Palm handheld, and many of the new mobile 'game' devices. We recommend you use iTunes (it is a free download for mac and pc), and we have provided the link below.
What do I need to create my own? You will need a microphone (or your cell phone) to record your voice, a recording device (such as a computer, web site digital recorder, iPod with mic, flipvideo camera), and some software to edit the recording. There is a lot of free software available, and one of the most popular is Audacity
You will also need a web site to post your podcast on, once you have made your recording. A one-stop shop is Podomatic, where you can record and post your podcasts free. GlobalClassroom lets you request and create your own Moodle classroom online, and also to set up a free blog.globalpodder.net site where you can post your directions, podcasts, assignments, worksheets, and such. You are prompted to contact them by email to get it set up. Here is a link to a sample story about a Swan that I started in the recorded demo session on Podcasting. Check out the http://cmccarthy.podomatic.com/ example. You too can have a free account on PodOmatic.
Where do I start? Search - Subscribe - Listen
1. Download iTunes (free) from Apple and install it on your computer (Mac or PC)
2. Download and refer to the Podcasting for Teachers & Students book listed below for subscribing.
3. Search for podcasts, and subscribe to a few to get a feeling for the potential!
4. Enjoy discovering that new episodes are automatically downloaded to iTunes for you when a new one is posted.
5. ISTE links to current magazine articles about Podcasting
6. http://teachdigital.pbworks.com/podcasting has great resources
Podcasting with a Mac
Check out teacher Angela Clark-Pohlod's Create a Podcast Using Garageband.
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Resources
Check out the .pdf and tutorial files to assist you in creating your own podcasts, created by Carolyn McCarthy.
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