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© Delphian eLearning 2007

Podcasting: the essentials

SLAV Flexible Solutions Conference

Cecilie MurrayDelphian eLearning


• Podcasting (from iPod and broadcast)– A podcast is a digital media file downloaded

from the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players (MP3) and personal computers.

• Vodcasting (video podcasting)– the online delivery of video on demand &

video clip content (RSS, Atom).

What is it?


• ‘Podcast’ has been around since 2001 where it was first mentioned as a new term.

• On February 5, 2005, Shae Spencer Management, New York, trademark application, rejected because Wikipedia's podcast entry already described the history of the term

• 8 June 2006, the German chancellor Angela Merkel became the first head of government to launch a regular video podcast

History


• Anyone with an Internet connection

• Professional broadcasters for content distribution as podcasts

• Amateurs share content and opinions

• Schools and tertiary campuses make content available

Who uses podcasting?


• Ace Kidshttp://www.adrianbruce.com/acekids/mp3s/acekids051116.mp3• Douchy’s Biologyhttp://

web.mac.com/andrewdouch/Site/Biology_Podcast.html

• Benefits for Podcasting http://aussiekids.podbean.com/2007/07/01/aussie-kids-why-we-like-podcasting/

• Podcast Bangladeshhttp://podcastbangla.blogspot.com/

What does it look like?


http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

What do I need?


Podcasting


Blogs and Podcasting


• The Inner Life of a Cell

http://www.youtube.com/ & use search field to find…

• Year 6-7 • Solving Equations • Simplify Rap

Public content


• Ready-made curriculum content

• Teacher podcasts

• Student podcasts

• Professional learning

• Training on using ICT devices or software

• Reflection tool for teachers and students

How can we use them?


Research project:iPodagogy: using iPods and Vodcasting for Learning

What’s it all about? Teacher 1 vodcast Teacher 2 vodcastStudent reflects Student 2 Student 3 Rocks Student 4

The capacity of iPods, that synchronise audiovisuals with an integrated LCMS • to enhance student engagement • to embed innovative teaching practice• the use of ICT outside the classroom

Podcasting project


Impact on student learningHalf reported that they learned better by doing things and liked to be

active learners - “I’m more of a hands-on person – I liked listening to them [podcasts] and watching as well”

• Viewing the podcasts had improved their performance or test scores: “I watch and learn everyday so podcasts helped me”

• Avoiding distractions, iPods were useful as “you can learn at your own pace while the class is being silly”

• Socially isolated learned that they can perform well as part of a group

• Those who cope well with traditional print literacy struggled with technologies

• iPods meant too much homework and more work than other Year 8s; impact of higher-order thinking

• Reality - “improvements in all curriculum areas and also in behaviour, motivation and responsibility by the end of the project

What the research says


What the research saysImpact on teacher pedagogy

Teachers confident in routine applications but little experience with blogs, podcasts and handhelds

ICT skills and confidence have increased overall Use of online services has increased overallChanged teaching practice

‘Enriching, rewarding learning curve’‘made me think outside the box’; ‘love working in a team’‘ ‘helped our relationship…the power dynamics have changed. It’s

empowering for them as they can help me’‘changed the way I think about my teaching…how to use technology to

recall and manage what they learn’‘gave me an insight into what I’m capable of and what the kids are

capable of’‘stretched me personally’


Conclusions

• Personal, portable, handheld devices provide flexibility, accessibility and frequency of use, despite small screen size and limited battery life, increase engagement, motivation, organisational skills, active learning and independent learning.

• They provide 1:1 access in schools leading to more engaged students and their portability extends learning into the home – the concept of m-Learning

• It is essential when introducing emerging technologies to have pedagogical discussions before it is introduced, especially if it is planned as a school-wide implementation

• Strong school planning and support for teachers


• Enables students to use their own MP3 players for learning

• Broadens educational opportunities to all

• Teachers, academics can develop lessons

• Students can demonstrate their learning

• Reflective tool for teaching and for learning

Implications: T & L


• Dynamic content or learning repositories that enables storage, retrieval, use and re-use

• Copyright permissions for music, people interviewed

• Distribution – public or internal

• Managing iPods and MP3 players if school-owned

Implications: Library


Storage - file sizes, multiple copies• Establish a ‘how to’ guide to explain the

process of storing drafts, deleting unfinished work and storage of completed work

Ethical issues• Establish a school policy • Create permission forms• Education on the rights of others

Managing podcasts


• Podcasts available on the Internet– Download from free-to-air radio or television

and make available on the school intranet, eg ABC TV

– Not broadcast free-to-air eg NASA, Taronga Zoo, you must ensure copyright permission and restrict availability to within the school network

Managing podcasts


Implications: Legal

The term ‘‘podsafe’’ has been created to refer to music that can legally be used in podcasts without concern for payingroyalties. Increasingly, such music uses licences from CreativeCommons

The Emerging Legal Environment for Podcasting

http://mypage.iusb.edu/~mfox1/publfox/podlaw.pdf

http://creativecommons.org/

When interviewing a person for a podcast, make sure you have their signed permission to include them in a podcast.

Issues:•Copyright•Publicity rights•Trademark


www.smartcopying.edu.au

• Creating Podcasts: what am I allowed to do?

http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/docs/creating_podcasts_information_sheet_02_07_07.pdf

• Using Podcasts: what am I allowed to do?

http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/docs/using_podcasts_information_sheet_%2002_07_07.pdf


• Education has become portable

• Content is downloaded and listened to or viewed when and where the learner decides

• Easy to make podcasts or vodcasts

• Tools are affordable – MP3 player & software

Why is podcasting important?


“Children will soon be bringing their own powerful networked multimedia computers into the classroom” (Sharples, 2006).

The Challenge

What will be the reaction from schools –

ignore, ban, embrace or manage?


• 7 Things you should know about Podcastinghttp://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7003.pdf• Podcasting Plushttp://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/• Podcasting and Copyrighthttp://www.ceo.syd.catholic.edu.au/cms/webdav/site/curriculumonline/shared/Documents/Podcasting%20information%20sheet.doc• Podcast Blaster – heaps of lessons• http://www.podcastblaster.com/directory/K-12/• Podcasting and Vodcasting from Students in the Bering Straits• http://www.methings.com/podcasts/index.php?iid=14174• The PodLounge – Podcasting in Education• http://www.thepodlounge.com.au/listcat.php?cat=502&p=7

References


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