Technology has created a wide range of
new educational tools to utilize in and out of the
classroom. On this page, we will list some of the new
sites, sources and techniques.
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PODCASTING
A podcast is very much
like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber
receives regular audio programs delivered via the
internet, and she/he can listen to them at their
leisure.
iPods and
subsequently Podcasting, are an emerging technology with
tremendous potential for
implementing innovation in the classroom. From
simply recording lectures for students
absent from school, to you or your students developing
full scale academic productions in audio or video
formats; podcasting offers the opportunity for new ways
to learn and to teach. While not professionally reviewed, Wikipedia
offers a fairly thorough definition/overview of podcasting
at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting.
An internet search of podcasting will quickly reveal the scope of this new
technology. Below is a short list
of podcasting resources that offer information for
novices and experts.
Apple is currently the leader in podcasting with
software and its portable
iPods. iPods dominated the
2005 holiday gift giving season with over 14 million
sold and estimates attribute 80% of the
MP3/MP4 music player market to iPods. Many
students either have these devices or will acquire them
in the near future.
The best place to
begin understanding iPods is a visit to
iTunes. iTune's (not a
sales pitch) is Apple's one stop shop for music,
podcasts and video vodcasts.
There are
thousands of podcasts at iTunes from personal audio
blogs to academic lectures from Stanford University.
It is the place where many educators have elected to
post their information and site links to promote
their research/lectures and their students' work. The site is
searchable and we recommend playing around there.
iTunes
is available for both Mac and PC users and the software
of FREE! Here is the link to the
download site:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
and here is the link to
Apple's overview of the site:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
Tim Wilson
conducts a blog on innovative technologies for education and has
his own podcast. He is from
the
Hopkins School District in Minnesota and the link to his
blog is:
http://technosavvy.org/
Steve Sloan has
developed a general interest site on using podcasting in
education.
http://www.edupodder.com/
This is a
link to an article titled "Podcasting
Craze Comes to K-12 Schools: Educators discover value of
Internet Audio Programs"
from
Education Week,
December 7, 2005
http://www.nsboro.k12.ma.us/ipod.htm
K-12 Schools Podcasting
Jeff Kresge at Persell Middle
School in Jamestown, NY (and TAH participant since 2003)
has begun developing podcasts for his students.
They can be found at his site
http://www.jamestownpublicschools.org/persell/index.php/PersellFacultyJKresge
and at iTunes under Kresge's Kast. You can
contact Jeff at
99jkresge@jamestown.wnyric.org
with questions or tips.
The Dearborn School District in
Michigan is podcasting student presentations and their
Board of Education meetings.
http://www.dearbornschools.org/videocast/
Here are a few examples of K-12
schools podcasting:
http://www.lacrosseschools.com/longfellow/sc/ck/
http://gmsbuzzwords.libsyn.com/
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/
http://nausetschools.org/podcasts.htm
Podcasting Tutorials
There are many tutorials on
the web on podcasting. The following are from
Apple for both Macintosh and Personal Computers
using Quicktime:
For Windows Machines:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/podcasting_win.html
For Macintosh Machines:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/podcasting.html
Podcasting Software
AudacityŽ is free, open source
software for recording and editing sounds. It is
available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows,
GNU/Linux, and other operating systems:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
PotionFactory has created
PodcastMaker software for developing and
recording podcasts. Link here:
http://www.potionfactory.com/
Lists of podcasting software can be found at these
sites:
http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html,
http://dir.yahoo.com/news_and_media/internet_broadcasts/podcasting_and_audioblogging/software/,
For Mac users, Apple has just
released the new version of Garageband which has a podcasting component that makes creating podcasts
very easy. See the link here:
http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/recording/
To share your podcast with
iTunes users, you must create an RSS (Really Simple
Syndication) file. RSS feed providers, such as
FeedBurner, make it easy to create an RSS file. For
more information, visit
http://www.feedburner.com.
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Podcasting in
Academics
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The Duke Digital
Initiative (DDI) is a major
instructional technology program focused on
experimentation, development, and
implementation of digital technology in an
academic environment. Over a three-year cycle,
the DDI will incorporate digital
audio, images and video, collaboration tools
and tablet and hand-held computing. This Web
site serves as a central clearinghouse of
information on the DDI for members of
the Duke community and the general public.
http://www.duke.edu/ddi/
GAMES
Educational Videogames