Technology training for the Pender County 2012 convocation.

1. Podcasting
Creating Digital Media Your Students
Want to Hear

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Craig Lawson
http://www.lawsoninthemiddle.com

3. Podcasting What?
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An episodic series of digital audio or video
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4. Still Confused?
Podcasting in
Plain English
Tekzilla’s
Guide to
Podcasting

5. Where do you find
podcasts?
“Try it, you’ll like it!”

6. Format
How long
What kind
will the
of
show be?
segments
will you
How often have?
will you
release
your show?
Will you
have a co-
host?

7. Structure is Good
Examples
Review show (movies, food, etc.)
Tech news podcast segment structure: segment structure:
1. Introduction/Theme Song/Greeting 1. Introduction/Theme Song
2. Announcements 2. Greeting
3. Top Tech News Headlines w/ 3. Announcements
Commentary 4. First Review
4. Quick Tech Tip 5. Second Review
5. Outro Music 6. Interview
7. Third Review
8. Final Comments
9. Outro Music

8. Equipment

9. Equipment
Blue Microphone Snowball or Yeti
Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
Computer
Mobile Devices (iPod Touches or
iPads)

10. Recording Software
Audio Editing Other Options:
Software: Soundcloud
Audacity Skype
Lame MP3 Audio Hijack
Encoder Pro
Garageband WireTap

11. Hosting
Website or Hosting Service:
Podomatic
Podbean
Archive.org
Blubrry
**Personal Wordpress Page
PodPress

12. RSS Feed
Easy Podcast
Feedburner
**Libsyn (Storage and Feed)

13. Going Pro
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
specs.html#itunesclient

14. Uses Interview
Relatives to
create an oral
Digital technology for iPod does for radio what blogs
history
did for the Internet.
By Stephen Humphries
Digital Stories
Flip the Classroom
Listening practice for EC and
Review Lessons
ESL students
Field Trip Reenacting or roleplaying a radio
Review broadcast from a historical time
period.
Student debates on
current events Student Created Lessons
Student Created Announcements and News

15. What about Videos?
ScreenFlow
Google+ Hangouts
USTREAM
Fraps
Camtasia
Youtube - Education

16. Do you need MORE
resources?
Podcasting Toolbox:
70+ Podcasting Tools
and Resources

17. This is to hard...
Grammar Girl TechChicks
Portable TV
60 Second Civics
Ed Tech Crew Lab Out Loud BAM! Radio
Middle School Matters

18. Did you think this
was about
Screencasting?
Narrated
Recording Your Desktop