Podcasting for Teaching English as

a Foreign LanguageRashid A. Moore

Nova Southeastern UniversityFt. Lauderdale, Florida

USAwww.nova.edu

Questions for the audience

How many of you like to speak another language? Listen to another langauge? Sing in another language?

How many of you would like others to hear you and your students?

How many of you are media stars in Ecuador? In the world?

Would you like to reach the world?

You have in your hands today the possibility of sharing your students’ and your creativity with the world, as well as enjoying the creativity of the world

Another question

Do you have to be a powerful media corporation president, or be on Ecuadorian radio or television, to have access to the world?

No!

All you need is to explore the world of podcasting to have experiences that even media superstars in Ecuador do not have!

Are you ready to explore?

What is a podcast?

A podcast is an audio or video file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using distribution or syndication, for playback on MP3 players and computers.

What is podcasting?

Podcasting is distributing, or syndicating, the audio and video files from a website

Basically, that means you and your students have the power to create and broadcast worldwide when you have a podcasting account

Do I have to have a lot of skills to podcast? Not anymore. Many podcast websites

offer accounts that do much of the work for you.

As long as you have a computer, a computer headset, and Internet connection, and a podcasting account, you can start right away!

Do podcasting accounts cost a lot of money? No! You can get a FREE podcasting

accounts at a number of places, like Podomatichttp://www.podomatic.com

Why podcasting and EFL? It’s authentic listening

Podcasts offer language teachers and students a wide range of possibilities for extra listening both inside and outside of the classroom, not just to the teacher or each other.

Why podcasting and EFL?Different discussions, voices and themes

They can provoke interesting discussions They can bring a range of different voices and

varieties of English into the classroom The Bob and Rob Show offers "weekly English

lessons from a Yankee and a Brit." They can be selected because their of their

themes ties into the curriculum.

• Stanley, G. (2006). Podcasting: Audio on the Internet comes of age. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej36/int.html.

Finding podcasts by theme

Use one of the many podcast directories, such as these popular ones: Podcast Alley

• http://www.podcastalley.com/ Podcast Pickle

• http://www.podcastpickle.com/

• Stanley, G. (2006). Podcasting: Audio on the Internet comes of age. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej36/int.html

Why podcasting and EFL?Script and audio connection

Many podcasts come with a transcript of what is said during them

EFL students can make greater connections between spoken English and written English

EFL students can generate their own scripts if one is not available

EFL students can create their own scripts for their own podcasts

Podcasts for lower proficiency levels Voice of America

http://www.voanews.com/english/podcasts.cfm

Englishcaster http://www.englishcaster.com/

Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/

Popular EFL Podcasts

Jeff McQuillan's ESL Podcast http://www.eslpod.com/ is one of the most popular podcasts of any genre, having a very large audience

Another popular podcast for EFL is Robert Diem's English Idioms and Slang podcast http://www.englishcaster.com/idioms/ .

• Stanley, G. (2006). Podcasting: Audio on the Internet comes of age. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej36/int.html

Popular EFL Podcasts

The Bob and Rob Show http://englishcaster.com/bobrob/ is also well produced and entertaining as well as being educational, and features "weekly English lessons from a Yankee and a Brit".

Charles Kelly's Learn a Song http://www.manythings.org/songs/ is a podcast appropriate for low level learners

• Stanley, G. (2006). Podcasting: Audio on the Internet comes of age. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej36/int.html

PodCards?

PodCards are audio postcards that you can download to your iPod, your mp3 player or to your computer. You can also burn the files to CD to use in class, at home, in the car - wherever you want.

They contain information about a particular town or city from different countries around the world or biographies of famous people, inventions, films or events that make these places famous.

• http://www.eslpodcards.com

Can I make a podcast?

All you need is:a computera computer headsetan Internet connectiona free podcasting accountfree Audacity software

(recommended)

A sample podcast site

A sample homemade podcast sitewww.rushmoore.podomatic.com

Once you have learned the basics, it is time for Audacity In order to have even better quality

podcasts, it is a good idea to use a free computer program called Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Some of Audacity's features Importing and exporting WAV and

MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder), and other file formats

Recording and playing sounds Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with

unlimited Undo) Eliminate noise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity#Features

Posibilidades de uso

Grabar sonido en directo. Convertir casettes y grabaciones

analógicas en grabaciones digitales. Editar archivos de audio tipo MP3 & WAV

(con el codificador LAME MP3). Permite, mediante su interfaz gráfica cortar,

copiar, pegar y mezclar sonidos. Puede trabajar con múltiples pistas.

Eliminar ruidos http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

From simple to multiple track

Vision Andina made with Podomatic recorder (1st)

The Living Statue of the Alameda made with Podomatic recorder (last one)

Ni Una Sola Palabra, Pero Muchas Liricas Cantadas Made with Audacity and music mp3

Say It Dad! Made with Audacity and music mp3

Let’s make a podcast

1. obtain free podcast account at www.podomatic.com

2. find and use a computer headset with microphone

3. search for a text to record, or create your own text to record

4. record your podcast5. post your podcast for the world!

Let’s create a podcast today!

In a small group, create a text or script that would take between 1-2 minutes to read. (If possible, find a text on the Internet)

Take turns recording your podcast. Convert your podcast into an mp3 file Send to podomatic account

Thank you for your attention!

This presentation can be obtained from:

www.nova.edu/~mrashid

Click on the poster for the Guayaquil conference