Strategies For Success: Enhancing Learning Through Podcasting: Garage

Band, Audacity and Slideshare

Elizabeth Mencel RN, MSN

Pamela Roberts RN, MSN

Millennial Generation(Traditional College Student Today)

•“Digital Natives” (Prensky)•Communication through technology•Sociable, confident, optimistic, well-educated, achievement-oriented

College Student Today

• Their inevitably short attention spans are the reason Seymour Papert of MIT's Media Lab coined the term "grasshopper mind" five years ago, for the inclination to leap quickly from one topic to another. A founder of artificial intelligence, Papert addressed the effects of this behavior as far back as 1995 in congressional testimony about technology and learning.

Barriers to Student Success:

• As each year passes, there is an increasing amount of information that needs to be covered, in every discipline

• As each year passes, there is a decreasing amount of time for students to spend on academic work—their time is spent with family responsibilities and employment expectations, in addition to course work.

Implications

• Digital media is the medium of attention for youth• Schools must become high-performance

organizations. (Federation of American Scientists Entertainment Software Association National Science Foundation)

• Need to employ strategies to engage students, involve them in the learning process, and motivate success.

Strategies for Success

• “What you can, and must, provide us with are: Powerful, engaging tools that will lead to the understanding and skills that will E-nable us to go beyond our teachers’ ability and knowledge and to succeed in the 21st Century.” Prensky

• One such tool: Podcasts

• Podcasts can be powerful, engaging tools that will lead to understanding and skills…

History of the IPOD

• Introduced by Apple on October 23rd 2001

(will be having their ninth birthday this year)• Students currently entering college were

introduced to Ipods in 3rd grade, grew with the technology through adolescence and high school.

• Used initially for entertainment; now for learning• Popular because of their portability and user-

friendly system of operation.

PODCAST

Presentation and Reinforcement of course content in a technology familiar format.

Itunes and Education

I Tunes University

• Learning to go—on and off campus. Students can sync iTunes U content with any iPod or iPhone, so learning

can take place during a meal, walking to class, or working out at the gym.

• Reach students where they live--keep students motivated. Today’s students go online for more than music, photos, and movies. The

web is the first place they go to share ideas, express viewpoints, join communities. Podcasts tap into that digital lifestyle to keep students every bit as engaged with your courses. iTunes U allows for expanding the curriculum, delivering audio and video tailored to the course objectives.

• Transcend the classroom — and the expected. The possibilities go far beyond recorded lectures. Students can see Rodin

at work in his studio, study the sound of different heart murmurs, or compare Toltec and Aztec sites.

Recording a Podcast

• Start with a Plan

• Consider Course Objectives

• Determine what information to include

• Develop an Outline• Software Programs (Provide directions through Apple-

Support and Tutorials-Audacity):

Audacity (free download--PC’s)

Garageband (free download--Apple)

Other Podcasting sites

• Yodio.com

• Slideshare.net

• Slidecasting

Recording a Podcast

• Optimal length--20-30 minutes.

• Keep topics moving, and limit topic coverage to 5-8 minutes.

• Can enhance with musical backgrounds or other non-music interludes to transition between topics.

PC Users:

• Develop Podcasts through “Audacity”

• Can be upload into “Slideshare”

Audacity and Lame MP3 Encoder

• Download Audacity and Lame from the internet

• Open Audacity, go into Edit- Preferences and link to the downloaded Lame program in the File Formats tab

• Begin recording your script. Click on the red “record” button.

• Listen by clicking on the purple “go to the beginning” button.

Audacity

Save and Share Audio File

• Once recording is complete, go to: FILE-export as MP3

• Login to Slideshare.net and upload mp3 file

Recording a Podcast through Audacity and Slideshare

• Login to Slideshare.net

Upload Your File

Go into My Slidespace--Click Edit Underneath the Slides.

Uploading your MP3 file

• Synchronize the audio with your slides

• Start with “Divide audio equally” button to start

• Listen to the audio file- the red bar is the position of the audio you are hearing.

• Move the blue bar to the place in the audio that you want to transition to the second slide.

• As you progress pull the “drag window” along the audio selector.

Uploading Mp3 File to Slideshare

Installing Audacity/LAME MP3 Encoder

MAC Users

• Keynote

• Garage Band

• IMovie

Getting Started On a MAC

Prepare Presentation:Open Keynote Program

Choose a Slide Layout

Click on “SHARE” in Tool Bar .

“SHARE” To: GARAGE BAND

Open Garage Band : Select New Project : PODCAST

Select Playback Time : Fixed Duration

Name your Project and SAVE

Open Garage Band and Select PODCAST Track

Select Pictures and Drag to PODCAST Track

Adding Pictures

Select JINGLE Track for Background Music

Drag Selected Music tto Jingle Track

Adding Jingles

Align with Podcast Track

Select Voice Track. Record Vocal Track And Align With Podcast Track

How to use Slideshare Workspace

Creating A Podcast With GarageBand

End Result--The Podcast

Strategies for Success

• Repetition important for students with learning disabilities and those for whom English is a Second Language

• Enables learners to learn new material, review and refresh prior information anywhere, anytime

• Encourages students to augment or supplement in-class offerings in a convenient format

• Faculty/ Administration “buy in”

• Utilization of faculty

• Training all involved faculty

• Learning Curve for Faculty

• Appropriate settings for recording podcasts

Problems Encountered

Problems Encountered

• Preparing engaging materials

• Selecting appropriate content

• Time Constraints

• Cost

• Computer “gliches”

• Keeping IT expert “on-call”

Implications for the Future

Varied possibilities for future use:

• Allows for more flexibility in curricular offerings and course scheduling

• Provides convenient method for student preparation and review for classroom, clinical, and laboratory sessions.

• Provides a convenient format for student projects and presentations

Implications for the Future

The sky is the limit

Contact Information

Pam Roberts:

proberts@mc3.edu

Liz Mencel:

emencel@mc3.edu

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