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Podcasts from Berlin:Downloaded in Swansea
Dr David Gill
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Introduction
• HEA funded project to create exemplars for teaching
Greek archaeology and Egyptology
• Available from the Learning Lab:
http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/heapodcasting.html
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Podcasting the Ancient World
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Tools for Creating Podcasts
• Olympus digital
recorder with USB hub
• Canon Eos Digital
450D
• MacBook using
Quicktime and iMovie
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Why podcast archaeological material?
• To help students engage with unfamiliar material
• To place sculptures in context
• To give a sense of scale for the monuments
• To provide a topographical setting
• To offer a personal commentary and reaction
• To assist with the identification of monuments as part of the
student assessment
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The Pergamon exemplar
• Level 2 / 3 module
‘Images of Power in the
Greek and Roman
Worlds’
• Pergamon located in
north-west Turkey
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The Pergamon altar
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The scale of the altar
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Podcasts of the Pergamon Altar
•Scale of the altar
•First impressions of the
altar
•Reading inscriptions
•Pergamon at Athens
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Student benefits
• To encourage interest in unusual sites
• To develop a more detailed knowledge
• To note an improvement in assessed work
• To find students applying for summer schools in Greek
archaeology
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Creating podcasts (on a Mac)
• Images in iPhoto
• Audio saved in iTunes
• Combined in iMovie
• MP4 files saved on server
• Delivered through Blackboard
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Selecting the images in iPhoto
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Selecting audio in iTunes
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Creating the podcast in iMovie
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Student access to podcasts
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Podcasts on iTunes
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Podcasts in iTunes
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Videos in iTunes
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Future Tools
Flip video with USB
connection
New range of Olympus
digital recorders
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Finally …
Thanks to …
• Chris Hall
• Kasia Szpakowska
• HEA
• JISC