Podcasting
The purpose of this section of Creating Digital Audio Content is to provide an overview of podcasting and how it can benefit students. The topic of podcasting will focus on the basics of finding, subscribing, downloading and listening to or watching a podcast. You will also learn how podcasts can be applicable to education. We’ll take a look at the best podcast directories, some podcasts you may find interesting, and the software and hardware needed to enjoy podcasts.
A podcast is a digital audio program that is distributed over the internet to a subscriber. Podcasts in an educational setting provide opportunities for students and teachers to share information with anyone anytime. This is because the playback features of the audio cast can be accessed from most portable devices that have access to the internet or that can download an play audio files. |
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If a student is absent, she can download the podcast of the recorded lesson. It can be a tool for teachers or administrators to communicate curriculum, assignments and other information with parents and the community. Teachers can record book talks, vocabulary or foreign language lessons, international pen pal letters (podcast pals!), music performance, interviews, debates. Video podcasting can be a publishing tool for student oral presentations. Audio podcasts can be used in all these ways as well. It also allows people to leave a journal. The initials “RSS” are variously used to refer to the following standards:
podcasting as A content Provider
Over the years podcasting has lost some appeal for due to video cast. Yet pocasting is one of the best ways to produce content especcially for those who are creating online course work through iTunesU, Google Course Builder or providing resources for a MOOC. Podcasting allows the course developer to narrow the content to a specific audience for accessing and replaying information once the content has been posted.
Podcasting also works well in a “Flipped a classroom environment. Flipping a classroom refers to a new approach to teaching in which the students are allowed to participate in a mobile learning environment. To create a flipped classroom the teacher will need to create a plethora of videos, podcasts or vodcasts that substitute for classroom lectures. These mobile learning media rich lessons are posted to a blog, or wiki, allowing students to have on demand access to learning and the review of learning at all times. These resources of vodcast, podcast, or video streams from the internet are the skill sets represented within the standards. To get started, a teacher would simply provide an open source platform for students to access and select assignments. |
The video below Jeff sits down with Instructional Tech Talk specialist Jeff Herb to discuss how educators can podcast for FREE!
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why podcast?Why use podcasts?
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Resources for PodcastingPodcasting has many educational benefits. Tony Vincent has created an excellent resource blog for learning how to create a podcast. On his site Learning at Hand he outlines four steps to creating a podcast: preproduction, recording, postproduction, and publishing. To learn more about podcasting visit Learning at Hand and download several podcasting help guides, on how to create podcast that support curriculum integration.
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podcasting with audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to, Record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together and Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
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To create a Podcast you will need a audio recording tool. The best free recording tool currently on the market is Audacity. Audacity is an audio editor. It’s features include recording/playing sound, sound editing using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), track mixing, effects (including Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal). Audacity imports and exports WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files. Audacity is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)Audacity Download Tutorial And Lame MP3 Encoder
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