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What is podcasting?What is podcasting?

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What is your definition of podcasting

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What are the learning benefits of podcasting in the classroom?

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Today you will learn how to:–Access iTunes–Navigate iTunes–Download Podcasts

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iTunes is a program that allows you to download free podcasts and store them in a library for you and your students to access as needed.

In your web browser, type www.iTunes.com

Click Download

Type your email address and click download now

Creating an AccountCreating an Account

Please refer to task checklist for creating an iTunes account, and I will guide you through the steps.

Downloading a PodcastDownloading a Podcast

We will now learn how to download a podcast from iTunes.

You will need to open your newly downloaded iTunes program.

Go to Start, All Programs, iTunes, iTunes

Click “iTunes Store”

Click the arrow beside the word “Podcasts”

Click “Education”

Scroll Down and click “K-12”

Browse titles and click on one you are interested in to preview.

Click the “Play” button to preview.

Click the word “FREE” to Download

Your podcast will download to your iTunes library.

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Congratulations!You have successfully downloaded

a podcast into your iTunes library. To put the podcast onto your iPod,

simply plug your iPod into the USB port of your computer and click “sync” on the left side of your iTunes screen.

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Please brainstorm with your colleagues what kind of podcast you would like to create. – Examples: Poem, rhyme, chant,

multiplication tables, etc.– Please answer the assessment

questions.– Remember to bring podcasting

material with you to the next session.