Post on 03-Jan-2016
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With PodcastingBrandon HerderBrandon Herder
and and Melissa Melissa
TredenickTredenick
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Why Podcasting in Education?• For lectures• To facilitate self-paced learning • For interviews with external resources• To offer advanced and or highly motivated learners
extra content • For distance learning • To allow guest speakers to present once too many
classes • To feature guest speakers from remote locations• For helping students with reading and/or other
disabilities• To offer a richer learning environment • For multi-lingual education • To communicate with your community
Is There Really a Need?• Poor quality of student note
taking skills– Poor handwriting– Poor listening skills– Inability to differentiate
important content from non-important content
• The FAST talking teacher• Note taking counter
productive to listening… for some students
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Memory Retention
20 minutes 47% forgotten
1 day 62% forgotten
2 days 69% forgotten
75 days 75% forgotten
78 days 78% forgotten
*Walter Pauk (Cornel 84)
Podcasting at Christ School• Spanish Class uses Digital
Voice Recorders for student and teacher.
• History Teacher records “enrichment lectures” and places on Blackboard.
• Drama students use to record lines and then put on Ipod® to learn.
• Video Recording of Lectures (AP Bio)
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What we’ve learned…• Students act differently when being
recorded (AP Chem)
• Digital Voice Recorders record in files (no pausing)
• Video files are often bulky and take up a lot of room on the server (be sure to compress)
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How does it work?
• Turn on your recording software or digital recorder
• Speak
• Save as an MP3 file
• Upload to a web server or your Blackboard site
• Advanced – Update RSS
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Tools to get started
• Computer– PC– Mac– Linux
• Audio recording software– Audacity (free –
multi-platform)– Garage Band (Mac)
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Tools to get started cont.
• Microphone– Headset style– Wireless – Personal digital
recorder ($50ish)
• Blackboard Site• Advanced
– RSS editor– Podcast aggregator
• iTunes (PC, Mac)• Juice (PC, Mac, Linux)
– MP3 player (Optional)
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software first from the CD
• Be sure to select the option to “Convert to MP3 before Saving”
• Audacity is a free and helpful tool for editing.
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The Next Step…
• H.264 Format
• MP4
• Apple Ipod for small video (I use small version-low quality)
The Next Step…
1. Record the Class with video camera
2. Upload the video using Windows Movie Maker (or other $$ program)
3. Edit Video and Save File
4. Download a free Video Converter or use the Itunes Pro Version
5. Post Video for download