DIY Podcasting: Benefits for Teaching and Learning

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Podcasts are audio or video recordings designed to be downloaded and played on portable media devices. Podcasting has its roots in early MP3 music player (pre-iPod) and RSS (really simple syndication) technologies. This presentation will outline the history of podcasting, benefits of podcasting for teaching and learning, how podcasts are created and used, and discuss the basic tools to help anyone get started on creating podcasts.

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DIY Podcasting: Benefits for Teaching & Learning

Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D.

!Executive Director, Office of Academic Technology

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Rev. 10/2013

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Educational ObjectivesYou will learn… • The history of podcasting • How to

– Create – Publish – Distribute your own podcasts

• The benefits of podcasting for teaching & learning • Where to look for more information

Background

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Web 2.0 – Now YOU can participate

• Web 1.0 – Information resource (read only) –Marketing must for all serious businesses –A commercial success (Amazon, eBay etc.)

• Web 2.0 –The “participatory” or “read/write” web –Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, “web desktop” –E.g., Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter

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Podcasting is like TiVo for Internet Radio

• Audio or video recordings designed to be downloaded and played on portable media devices

• Fastest growing Web 2.0 technology • Growing faster than DVD adoption • Somewhat like TiVo for radio • Variation on Web 1.0 streaming Internet radio,

allowing time and place shifting • iPod NOT required

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iPods are Not Required• Despite the name, you don’t need

an iPod to listen to podcasts. • All you need is an MP3 player or

smart phone. • You can even burn a podcast to a

CD and playing it on the CD player in your living room or your car.

• It’s audio content/entertainment when and where you want it.

Podcasting History

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Podcasting, a Marriage of MP3 & RSS

• Adam Curry, the “Pod Father” – 1st video jockey on MTV –www.curry.com

• Daily Source Code (2004)(dailysourcecode.mevio.com)

• iPodder / IndiePodder / Juice • PodShow (www.mevio.com) • Podsafe Music Network

(www.musicalley.com)

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Adam Curry's Daily Source Code Introduced by Steve Jobs in 2005, at D3 Conference

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06awT8w0_PU

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RSS 2.0 Makes Podcasting Work

• RSS 1.0 led to rise of BLOGS, i.e., “web logs” • RSS 2.0 allows an “enclosure”, a link to another

file, e.g., and mp3 audio file • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 2.0 is a Web 2.0

technology that allows website syndication • Allows portion of website, called a “web feed”, to

be available to individual subscribers • “Subscribing” doesn’t imply cost; most are free

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Podcasting – Everyone is doing it

• Experienced bloggers

• Tech savvy amateurs

• Professional broadcasters

• Syndicated radio shows –NPR “In the Media” –“This Week in Tech” (Leo Laporte)

• Education institutions

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Podcasting is Growing

• > 91,000 podcasts in Podcast Alley Directory • > 1 BILLION podcast subscribers in iTunes! • According to a recent Edison Research Study on

the Podcast Consumer, awareness of Podcasting has grown 105% since 2006 from 22% in 2006 to 45% in 2012.

• The percentage of consumers indicating they have listened to an audio podcast has grown 163% from 11% in 2006 to 29% in 2012.

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How to Podcast

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Podcasting – How does it work?• For Podcast Producer

– Record an audio file in mp3 format – Upload mp3 and “show notes” to web server – Create an RSS feed – Submit to iTunes (optional)

• For Podcast Listener – Go to show website and click on mp3 link to play, OR – Copy mp3 file to portable player, OR – Subscribe to podcast RSS feed via iTunes and sync to

portable player (iPod, iPhone, Android phone, tablets)

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Podcasting Requires Hardware & Software

• Hardware Requirements –PC or Mac –Microphone –MP3 file Host Server –Show Notes Host Server

• Software Requirements –Sound waveform editor –Blog

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Create your Podcast

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Buy a good quality microphone

• Condenser microphones are best • Look for USB connection to connect to your PC or

Mac • Battery powered remote microphone recorders

are available • iOS or Android recording apps may be used in a

pinch

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Audio Quality is Paramount

• Sample from RPP #1 (2/2006)

• Sample from RPP #115 (10/2013)

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Get a good audio editor

• Audacity (free)

• Garage Band

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Audacity

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Publish your Podcast

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Publish Your Audio File

• Find a site to host your MP3 recordings –PodBean –Libsyn –Blackboard –Many website hosting companies

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Publish Your Show Notes

• Create a Web page to host your podcast directory, show notes and links to your MP3 audio files using: –Blogger (FREE)

• www.blogger.com • A Google company

–Wordpress • www.wordpress.com

–Blackboard

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Blogger shownotes

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Rpp on blogger

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Distribute your Podcast

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Create your Feed using Feedburner

• An RSS feed allows your audience to subscribe using their “feed catcher” such as iTunes

• Code the RSS feed in XML manually, or use… • Feedburner (FREE)

–www.feedburner.com (another Google company) –FeedBurner hosts well over a million feeds for

584,832 publishers, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds

–Automatically polls your blog –Keeps stats on your subscribers and downloads

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Listeners Can Subscribe via Email

• Feedburner allows you to embed a widget into your show notes blog for users to subcribe via email

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Promote Your Podcast

• Podcast Directories –http://www.podcastdirectory.com/ –http://www.podcastalley.com/ –http://www.musicalley.com// –http://www.podfeed.net/ –http://www.apple.com/itunes/

• Other Promotional Tools…

Most Important!

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Listening to Podcasts

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Listening to a Podcast

• Listen to show directly from website • Subscribe using a “podcatcher” via

–Desktop application • iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes) • Juice (juicereceiver.sourceforge.net)

–Web Browser • Yahoo (podcasts.yahoo.com) • Firefox “live bookmarks”

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Podcatchers (cross platform)

• iTunes • Juice (formerly iPodder) • Also: Miro, Podfy, Firenze • Podcast Apps for Mobile use • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_podcatchers

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rods-pulse-podcast/id121949703

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http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

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iOS Podcasts App

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Podcasting is booming…

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2013/08/15/podcast-explosion/2647963/

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Podcasting Scenario : Student

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Podcasting – Lecture Capture

• Manual production by lecturer using, e.g., using Blogger and Feedburner.

• Capture Lecture Audio, Video, PowerPoint –Echo360 (www.echo360.com) –Mediasite (www.sonicfoundry.com/mediasite) –Panopto (www.panopto.com) –Tegrity Campus (www.tegrity.com)

• Podcast LX (www.learningobjects.com)

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Podcasting Scenario : Clinician

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Podcast Benefits Teaching & Learning

• Students can learn on the move while commuting or exercising

• Students can review material often and with fast playback (2x); perfect for language learning

• Faculty can “flip the classroom” and assign audio or video podcasts for students to prepare for classroom exercises

• A live Internet connection is NOT required

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Podcasting is Growing

• Those scenarios are happening TODAY! • The “Internet generation” are today’s students

and tomorrow’s employees and customers • Podcasting w/video opens up new educational

possibilities • Ubiquitous cell phone and “WiFi” (wireless)

networks will accelerate adoption of podcasting and streaming

Podcasting Resources

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50 Educational Podcasts You Should Check

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/50-educational-podcasts-you-should-check-out/

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Podcast Gallery: The Best Audio and Video Podcasts

http://podgallery.org/

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The Best Podcasts You Should be Listening to in 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ron-nurwisah/the-best-podcasts-2012_b_2432058.html

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Podcasting Scholarly Publications• Lin, Shinjeng, Joseph C. Zimmer, and Velma Lee. "Podcasting Acceptance on Campus: the Differing Perspectives of

Teachers and Students." Computers & Education (2013). • Khoshkish, Shayan, Ali Faturechi, and Ahmad Reza Dehpour. "Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and

Attitude Evaluation." Acta Medica Iranica 51.1 (2013). • Collier-Reed, Brandon I., Jennifer M. Case, and Angela Stott. "The influence of podcasting on student learning: a

case study across two courses." European Journal of Engineering Education 38.3 (2013): 329-339. • Hasan, Md Masudul, and Tan Bee Hoon. "Podcast Applications in Language Learning: A Review of Recent Studies."

English Language Teaching 6.2 (2013): p128. • Kendall, Ross. "Podcasting and pedagogy." Mobile pedagogy and perspectives on teaching and learning (2014):

41-57. • Stewart, David W., Peter C. Panus, and Nicholas E. Hagemeier. "An analysis of student performance with podcasting

and active learning in a pharmacotherapy module." Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning (2013). • Hartfield, Perry J. "The power of educational podcasting: using short-format podcasts to reinforce tertiary student

learning experiences in science." Proceedings of the STEM in Education Conference 2010. Queensland University of Technology, 2011.

• Lonn, Steven, and Stephanie D. Teasley. "Podcasting in higher education: What are the implications for teaching and learning?." The Internet and Higher Education 12.2 (2009): 88-92.

• Van Bergen, Penny. "Recasting Lecture Material Using Podcasts: An Educational Psychology Case Study." Curriculum Models for the 21st Century. Springer New York, 2014. 259-277.

• Khechine, Hager, Sawsen Lakhal, and Daniel Pascot. "University Students’ Perception of the Pedagogical Use of Podcasts: A Case Study of an Online Information System Course." Journal of Education and Training Studies 1.2 (2013): 136-151.

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Pocasting Resource Links• http://www.blogworld.com/ (conference) • http://podcamp.pbworks.com/ (unconference) • http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/ (discovering) • http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html (making a podcast) • http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ (subscribe & play) • http://www.podbean.com/ (hosting) • https://www.podomatic.com/ (hosting) • http://www.libsyn.com/ (hosting) • http://www.blogger.com/ (Blogger show notes) • http://codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting (Wordpress show notes) • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (audio editor) • http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ (podcast editor)

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Contact Me…

• Rodney B. Murray, PhD • www.RodsPulsePodcast.com • rod@rodspulsepodcast.com !

QUESTIONS?

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