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Explore educational podcasts by Paul McMahon for effective learning solutions. Learn podcasting process, examples of educational podcasts, finding podcasts, subscribing vs listening, and how to podcast. Includes tips on preparation, performance, production, and promotion. Discover tools like Podium/Audacity, sites for background music, settings configuration for Podium, and promoting podcasts via XML feeds and websites. Contact Paul McMahon for personalized assistance.
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Educational Podcasting Paul McMahon Learning Solutions Asia Limited
Examples of Educational Podcasts • Lit2Go: Audio Files for K-12 http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ • BBC Learning English Site http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ • BC/BBC Teaching English Site http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/(not Pdcsts) • Podcasts in English (not Free) http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/ • Lots of EdTech ones!
What about the student voice? • Human Biology 12 Podcast Assignment http://web.mac.com/blitto/Blittos_Stuff/HB12_Podcast_Assign..html • Room 208 (2005-2006) http://bobsprankle.com/blog/ • Educating the Digital Generation Podcasts http://www.paulfuller.com.au/EducatingTheDigitalGeneration/Podcast/Podcast.html
Finding Podcasts • Podcast Directory http://www.podcastdirectory.com/ • Podomatic http://podomatic.com/ • Podcast.net/Juice Receiver http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ • iTunes is by far the best known! http://www.apple.com/itunes/ • Like google, it is possible to search for adult content!
Subscribing Vs Listening • You can choose what episodes you want or you can subscribe and have each one delivered “hot and fresh!”
How to Podcast • The podcasting process can be seen as 5 Ps: • Prepare – gather together your content • Perform – 3-2-1, click and record • Produce – edit, add sounds and music • Publish – publish to the internet • Promote – tell others what the link is so that they can subscribe and listen
Prepare • This can be done by simply using word or any other text editor to write out a script. • Sometimes free form comments are recorded but students are not so good or confident to speak without some prepared notes.
Perform • Capturing the audio can be done direct to the computer or remotely by voice recorder/MD recorder etc. • Microphones/headsets and USB devices can make a huge difference.
Produce • Podium/Audacity • Usually very easy for students and teachers to pick up. • Background music and effects can make a real difference http://www.freeplaymusic.com/http://www.findsounds.com/http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ • Remember to compress and save as, probably, an mp3 file.
Publish • There is a lot to know about here. (Hopefully your technician will take care of all of this for you!) • If you need the information, go to this link: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm
Promote • Need to have an XML feed for RSS. • This is done easily via Easy Podcast http://www.easypodcast.com/ or Poderator http://www.poderator.com/ • This feed needs to be published to your site or sent to potential subscribers as an email.
All Encompassing Solutions • Really only suitable for short, low bandwidth podcasts. Also adult content problems. • Examples http://abruce.podomatic.com/ , http://odeo.com/audio/2053982/view
Podium • The great advantage of this product is that it will do the whole 5 steps in the one application. • Nothing else on the windows platform does this as easily but “Garageband” on the Mac platform does most of this as well.
Configuration Settings • You can keep the settings on your trial account for Podium but if you want a local site for practice with freeware: • ftp account: host: embtest.fwg.hkfolder: /user: edbpodcast password: abc123 web page showing the uploaded file, http://embtest.fwg.hk/edbpodcast/
Thank you for listening! • Paul McMahon • Learning Solutions Asia • Email: pmc@learningsolutions.com.hk • Phone: W: 81702808 M: 91705605 • PowerPointhttp://iclassroom.hkedcity.net/teacher/teacher979