Podcasting Dai Thomas
Warden Park
“A podcast is a multimedia file distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Wikipedia [accessed at 21/11/06]
Podcasting:Students as content creators
“Sir I’m on itunes” • A method of quickly publishing to a mass audience • On demand • Uses audio therefore caters for auditory learners • Taps into the personal mp3 player revolution • Aggregated through RSS Podcasting:Students as content creators
Why is it useful? • Personalised learning • M- generation(Media centric,Mobile) • Concurrent Activity:By concurrent engineering of learning experiences for/by learners
• Learning platform ready • Aggregated through RSS
Podcasting:Students as content creators
So how do I Podcast? 1.Record your audio-
software,website,personal recording device
2.Edit your audio or mix- software 3.Process file as mp3 file type 4.Upload to some web space 5.Target the file with RSS feed Podcasting:Students as content creators
Useful Tools: • Audacity, Levelator • Podsafe sounds (The music department!,Audio network, Acidplanet) • Elgg, Moodle,Loudblog • Feedburner, Feedforall • Odeo, Podomatic, • itunes, Juice,podcastready,Fireant ,browser Podcasting:Students as content creators
Projects: • Warden Park Radio • Audio revision notes for MFL and Science and ICT • Drama? • English? • Book Reviews
Podcasting:Students as content creators
Future Forging: • • • • •
Digital Journey Mashups Vidcasting- Maths Quadratic brackets Warden park prefect radio team Skype casting Podcasting- DOFE
Podcasting:Students as content creators
Reading & Resources: • Audacity tutorials • BT assignment podcast • Coming of Age: An introduction to the new worldwide web • Odeo • Podomatic
Podcasting:Students as content creators
Podcasting:Students as content creators
Podcasting:Students as content creators