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Educational Podcasting & Vodcasting
Podcasting in both audio and video forms have become established as exciting
media with great educational potential. How can you use it in K-12 and corporate
settings? What tools and formats are appropriate? We'll design, create and disseminate
our own audio and video podcasts and tell the world our stories. Meets 9/15 & 9/29 Schedule
# 11480.
Overview
This
course is designed to be practical, current, interesting, empowering and thought-provoking.
It is built around active learning and collaborative thinking. When we're done, you'll
have created an educational podcast and developed insights
that will enable you to design additional podcasts appropriate to your work.
Audience
This course is targeted at teachers at the K-12 and college levels as well as others involved in the training of adults. No prior experience with podcasting is needed.
Learning Outcomes
In this course you will learn how to
- explain the attributes that make a podcast successful;
- apply Keller's ARCS model to enhance the motivation of your listeners;
- integrate elements of storytelling into a podcast script;
- capture audio from multiple sources and edit it into a final soundtrack;
- create an RSS feed for your podcast and disseminate it.
Deliverables
- Design documents for two pod/vodcasts: one on a topic of your choosing, the other chosen from a list provided that covers interesting educational activities by EDTEC faculty, students and alums.
- A finished pod/vodcast of 5-10 minutes duration, covering a a current EDTEC project or activity.
Resources
A growing list of course-related links is available and will be maintained after the course is over.
Course Outline
Session 1: September 15, 2007
- Overview of podcasting
- Results of survey
- Success story from last year
- iChat with Dan Schmit
- PodQuest: Becoming a podcast connoisseur
- ---- LUNCH ----
- Karl's definition of Podcasting
- RSS feeds and Bloglines
- A taste of GarageBand
- Get yourselves accounts on Skype
- Design elements for edupodcasting [your list]
- Motivational analysis of podcasts
- Apple's job aid about podcasting
- Today's slides [PDF]
Weeks-In-Between
- Sample an episode or two of This American Life as inspiration.
- NEW: Post at least two ideas for your podcast to the class Moodle by Wednesday September 19.
- Write a proposal for your personal podcast and submit it to the class Moodle by September 23. In the week that follows, provide feedback to at least three of your classmates on their proposal.
- Keep looking for interesting podcasts. Use the Discoveries forum on the Moodle to describe at least three interesting (to you) podcasts you've found.
- Prepare your collaborators, script, music files so that you'll be ready to record your EDTEC podcast during Session 2.
- Familiarize yourself with Garageband2 and 3(everyone) and Audacity (Windows users)
Session 2: September 29, 2007
- Status report on proposed projects
- GarageBand Review session
- Learn how to convert an .m4a file to an .mp3 file. Karl did this tutorial last year as an enhanced podcast that is too small for most humans to be able to view. This semester, the tutorial is reborn as a screencast that you can watch here. (4.7mB file is 3:57)
- This jobaid will help you when you upload your file to our server using Fetch.
- This jobaid will help you use Blogger to share your file on the web, and create your RSS feed.
- This screencast will show you how and why you'd set up an account with ODEO.
- This screencast shows you some of Odeo's recording capabilities.
- This screencast shows how to make a flash player using odeo.
- Showcase
Post-Class: October 7, 2007
- Final version of SDSU Podcast Due
- Final design document of your podcast due