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Say it again… With Podcasting Say it again… With Podcasting With Podcasting Brandon Herder Brandon Herder and and Melissa Melissa Tredenick Tredenick Say it again…

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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

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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)

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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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ing• Install the

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)

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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