Before the class beginning:
- Send me the link of your Capstone project (you need upload your ASSURE lesson plan to that page) No late work would be accepted without a latepass!
- Remember to initial the sign-in sheet as you enter the room.
Today we will begin PodCasting using Audacity. You will be working in groups of 2 or 3 to create an original educational PodCast.
Please read the project requirement carefully before you start your project.
What is PodCast?
There are several different ways to define PodCast. According to WikiPedia, "A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers".
However, some places, such as Education-World, define podcast simply as "an audio -- and sometimes a video -- recording made available online". The difference is that the second one doesn't include the use of syndication feeds.
Also, you can listen to an episode for the definition of PodCast from Apple (you might need to register first to play the video). This definition includes an introduction to syndication feeds.
Here, in our class project, we will adopt the second way of definition of PodCasting to finish your project, which is "an audio -- and sometimes a video -- recording made available online".
Why PodCasting in Education?
What could a PodCast can do to help with your classroom teaching and your student's learning? How should it be applied to enhance your students' creativity and improve your lecture's accessibility? In what ways can students learn by podcasting? Listen to Jeanne Halderson, seventh grade teacher and Dr. Tim Tyson, principal at Mabry Middle School about their experience of PodCasting in school.
Now let's look at a few examples of educational PodCasts to gets your brains churning about your own ideas.
Georgia
ACE KIDS
Math Grade PodCast
For more educational PodCasts, you can visit here, here and here.
The use of PodCasting in education has been around for a while.
How do we do the PodCast for this project?
The word is a combination of the words "broadcast" and "iPod," Apple's MP3 player. But, don't let the word "pod" throw you; you don't need an iPod or even an Apple to listen to existing podcasts, or to make your own.
- First, you set up your group by the end of Monday's class. Your group should include no more than 2 persons. Write down your group members' names and give it to me after the class.
- From Monday to Wednesday, you need to meet with your group members and brainstorm about the topic of your PodCast project. The topic could be but not limited to the following:
- Related to your subject area. It could be:
- A short story
- A lecture
- And anything else that you can think of to use in your teaching
- Your theory of technology integration into teaching, such as
- How you think you will assess your students' learning in your future teaching
- You opinions about using PowerPoint in the classroom (Advantages vs. disadvantages)
- The trends of the technology using in the future classrooms.
- An interview about this class about:
- Your favorite project in this semester and why it is your favorite
- What you have learned in this class and its impact to your understanding of using technology in the classroom
- Suggestions for the future students
- How you think that we could improve this class
- On Wednesday, you will record your audio file.
You can either choose record your audio using the software of Audacity with a microphone,which is connected to the computer or choose using a digital audio recorder (iPod or Mp3 recorder) to record your audio. - To record your audio using the computer and the Audacity, you need checkout a microphone from OIT (room 232) and use it to record your lecture/interview/story. You need export the file into a Mp3 format. You can either do it in our classroom (the computers already have Audacity installed ) or do it with your own computers (you need to download and install the Audacity and the LAME file from here).
- To record your audio using your own digital recorder, you need first make sure that the file your recorder creates will be either in Mp3 or in WMV format.
- Friday, edit your audio file with Audacity.
You'll want to review the project requirement for this project -- but keep in mind that you need not capture more than 2-5 minutes of raw footage.
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