Preparing and Using Podcasts and Vodcasts in the Curriculum
Podcasting is an exciting new audio medium that gives educators and students the freedom to listen to the audio program of their choice at the time of their choice. Podcasting is a new word created by joining two words and their meanings – iPod and Broadcasting.
The difference between a radio broadcast and a podcast is that the radio broadcast requires a studio and a transmitter that sends out radio signals within a given area. That signal can be received by anyone who happens to be in the area with a radio tuned to the appropriate frequency. Podcasts, on the other hand, are audio programs that are stored as digital files on the Internet. These files can be downloaded from an Internet connection anywhere in the world.
Many consider podcasting strictly for entertainment, however, more and more educators are now listening to podcasts and learning how to produce their own podcast. As teachers are becoming comfortable with podcasting they are sharing this excitement with their students and helping them create podcasts within their curriculum to meet content area or technology standards.
Northview's students get digital help
Recordings offer benefit to students in special needs, foreign languages, English classes through testing and other assignments.
Listening to Letter Sounds
iPod is a convenient, easy-to-use tool, for helping emergent readers and ELL/ESL students learn and practice letter sounds.
Soft Reset is the podcast for those using handhelds in education. Hosted by Tony Vincent and Mike Curtis, you'll learn helpful tips, hear about useful resources, and listen to insightful discussion about topics handheld-using educators care about.
Next to each audio file there may be a download link. Double click on this to bring up a preview box. Once the box is up and the audio file is playing, right click on the audio control panel and choose 'Save target as..." or "Save as..".
This will save the file to your hard drive. Make sure you take note of which folder you have saved it to so you can find it when you want to hear the file later.
Public Domain Music Reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal.
LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.
For people in search of media files, images, video and audio files,Fast Search is the place to go. Google, Yahoo, andAltaVista have introduced dedicated image locating services.
A Visit to Copyright Bay . This site presents clever, fun, graphic and sometimes animated tutorials about all those confusing copyright and fair use issues. If you'd like to test your knowledge before you begin, try any of these quizzes:Shakedown Cruises .
Internet Detective free Internet tutorial to learn to discern
the good, the bad, and the ugly for online research. (written for college but could be easily used at the secondary level.)
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Audio Editing Software and Media Players
Audacity - a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, and simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts.
Apple's .Mac account is considered a podcasting option, it is not free. A limited trial account is available for 60 days, but a standard 1-gig one year subscription can cost $99.
OurMedia is a free service offering the ability to view, share, publish, and store original video, audio and other media. Bandwidth and storage is unlimited, RSS tool is available. The site is ad free. Upload options include FTP and browser. Use of OurMedia r equires anArchive.org account.
Rapid Weaver is a website creator that allows drag and drop a podcast into a blog. RapidWeaver is built in Mac OS X's native language, Cocoa. This allows it to easily integrate with Mac OS X and all the Apple technologies.
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.
Footage.net The premiere stock footage resource to reach the trade's best stock footage sources - news, creative, archival, and RF. This site offers a powerful search engine that probes the databases of two dozen difference stock footage archives -- from the familiar (CNN, National Geographic, and network TV news outlets) to StormStock, (the world's premier storm footage library featuring tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, storm clouds, flash floods, giant hail, microbursts and other spectacular storm imagery.)
Flash Video Studio permits publishing movies to the Web as Flash files with a SWF extension. There's no need to figure out how to embed QuickTime or Windows Media player in a browser.
