Podcasts & Podcasting
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  Intro/Defs       Podcasting for Listeners      Podcasting for Speakers
 Other useful resources, links, and questions:  Introductory  from Ansorge  from Berger  from Schmit   
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Leaders:

Rhonda Berger   
Director of Technology Training at Miami Dade College

 

Dan Schmit      
Instructional Technology Specialist
University of Nebraska, Lincoln 

Charles Ansorge
Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Introduction, Definitions I.  Podcasting for Listeners:  Getting, saving and playing the "latest" sound files that you like II.  Podcasting for Speakers:  Preparing, saving, announcing, sharing the sound files that you create
Other useful resources, links:  Introductory  from Ansorge  from Berger   from Schmit

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Introduction Definitions, History

"Podcast" Word of the Year [2005]:  The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary

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I.  Podcasting for Listeners:  Getting, saving, and playing the "latest" sound files that you like
[Most people would consider only #4 "really" podcasting.]

1.  Find it and play it - but don't save it.  [streaming]

2.  Find it and save it [download it] to your own computer and available for you to play on your computer whenever you wish.

3.  Receive it automatically.  Have newest version sent to your computer automatically, saved automatically, and available for you to play on your computer whenever you wish.

  • Use a "news reader" or "feed reader" or "podcast reader" on your own computer or on the Web

  • On your own computer, for example:  iTunes

  • On the Web, for example:  Bloglines

4.  Play it whenever, wherever you like.  Same as 3, but then save the file to your portable, personal MP3 player (iPod, etc.) available for you to play on that device whenever you wish.

Link to 6MB MOV file - "Click, Wait, Listen/Watch"  sent by Rhonda Berger

Link to Podcast Provided by Charles Ansorge [RSS feed]

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II.  Podcasting for Speakers:  Preparing, saving, announcing, sharing the sound files that you create

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Additional useful sources of introductory information: 

The Real Beginners Guide to Podcasting, Podcast Free America How to get started podcasting with little or no technical expertise.

Guide to Podcasting for windows Users Using Free/Libre and open source software.

http://www.podifier.com/
"Podifier is a simple to use application that automates the creation of an RSS feed, the enclosing of one or more MP3 file, and the FTP application to upload them to a server. "

Questions:

  1. How are faculty currently using Podcasts at Miami-Dade CC?
  2. What are some future plans?
  3. What is a Podcast?   
  4. How is it different from a regular RSS feed?   
  5. How do you see faculty making use of this technology in a class where only a few students have IPods or other portable devices?
  6. What about bandwidth issues? 

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Useful Selected Resources, Links & Questions from Charles Ansorge, University of Nebraska, Lincoln:

http://www.intelligenic.com  
     This is the home site for the materials that Dan Schmit has created with numerous information found there regarding podcasting.  This site is not skin deep.  There’s lots of good stuff to be found on the site including discussion of podcasting by individuals who have been involved in doing this.  Also the site for Dan’s latest podcast.    

http://www.wtvi.com/teks/05_06_articles/classroom-audio-podcasting.html
     Nice overview of Podcasting with lots of good suggestions.

http://www.speakingofhistory.blogspot.com/
     Speaking of History is a podcast and blog maintained by an 8th grade American History teacher in Missouri who attempts to use technology to enhance the curriculum.

http://www.podcastalley.com
     Fairly complete list of current software offerings.  This site for Mac, Linux, and Windows computers.  

http://www.epnweb.org/
     The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

http://www.itunes.com
     This is the home site for a huge collection of podcasts.  The site acts as an aggregator and also may be used to listen to and/or watch video of podcasts/vodcasts.  

http://www.creativecommons.org
     Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.  Great place to find music for use with podcasts.

http://www.soundseeingtours.com/
     Want to go on a sound seeing tour of just about anywhere?  Take a virtual trip to your favorite spot in the world.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
     Audacity is free software to use for recording podcasts.  The application is available for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux computers.  This is a widely used sound recording application for podcasts.  

Questions:

1.      Why the sudden interest in podcasting?  Last year “podcasting” was the Oxford Dictionary’s “Word of the Year.”

2.      Is podcasting just a fad or is it something that will be around for a while?

3.      Who should be podcasting?

4.      What is the best education-related material to podcast?

5.      Is there any special training/equipment required to create and transmit a podcast?

6.      Is it difficult to learn how to prepare a podcast?

7.      What are my favorite podcasts that I regularly listen to?

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Useful Selected Resources, Links, and Questions from Rhonda Berger, Miami-Dade College


Podcast page - http://faculty.mdc.edu/rberger/pod All of the links below are also available from this main link


RSS feed http://faculty.mdc.edu/rberger/pod/feed.xml


Podcast workshop handout/resource page - http://faculty.mdc.edu/rberger/pod/podhandout.htm

VideoPod http://faculty.mdc.edu/rberger/pod/portabledemo.mov


Recommended "how to" resource:   http://podcasts.yahoo.com/

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Useful Selected Resources, Links, and Questions from Dan Schmit, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

- What converging trends created the "perfect storm" for podcasting to emerge?

- What are some of the show formats that are being used successfully in educational spaces?

- How can we help faculty see beyond podcasting as transmission and get to podcasting as construction, transformation, and community.

- How can podcasting and its interactions help to create global learning spaces?

- What is next for podcasting? How might it blend with existing and

emerging technologies (social networks, textbooks, etc.)?

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Table of info about selected related Tools

Tool
Tool used to build, maintain;
Comment optional

Link to Sample or Example

Source
Person, Organization
List of RSS Tools   Peter Scott
Bloglines - a free service for "aggregating" Web-page and blog "feeds" See how a Bloglines "button" can be embedded in a blog at the:  Overloaditorium

Bloglines permits me to set up an extra email account for any purpose... so that I will get "notified" when someone sends an email message to that address.  If you click here, you will be able to send me an email message at such an address.

 Owned by Ask Jeeves, Inc. which is being purchased by  IAC/InterActiveCorp - announced 3/21/2005.

Samples developed by Steve Gilbert, President, TLT Group, <gilbert@tltgroup.org>
List of news readers (from Google)    
 

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