Podcasts
29
May
Gidday
Have been playing with Podcasts.
I am using a Mac and so the technical side of this applies to mac users.
The only reason I can do it is because Apple’s iLife 06 software makes idiots (like me) look clever.
How did I learn?
Well I watched the Steve Jobs webcast and learnt from there.
What do you need?
- iLife 06 - iLife 05 will not do Podcasts.
- A mac with a built in mike.
- A dot mac account (or more brains than me to figure out how to save your work to another server).
What have I done?
Well…
primarily I have been using it to put up revision talks for my Yr12 Human Biol Kids. Check them out here
I make a few powerpoint slides to aid my talk and export them as Jpegs.
I then record the talk in Garageband as a podcast and then send to iWeb. Before sending I add the jpegs and some other pictures into the graphics track at the top of Garageband.
I leave a few hints about the next test - to make the kids listen to it.
Anyway - if this doesn’t make much sense, don’t worry - it’s easy.
Cheers
Blitto
1. Paul Reid | May 29th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Rod, podcasting is an enagaging and useful tool to have in schools. Your digital natives (students) must be impressed. My school website club is gradually recording snippets for a podcast at the moment. It is a current affairs show. Both school and world news. Plus a few tunes they’ve put together in GarageBand.
2. Rod Blitvich | May 30th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Hi Paul.
The next step for me is to get my yr12s to each prepare a podcast summary for 1 topic of the course. I will help them record and put them on my site, and then we will have an on-line revision centre for Human Biol 12.
3. Mark Weber | May 31st, 2006 at 9:44 pm
blitchappie
i have a small problem with these podcasts.
if they are so good, why weren’t we using little tape recorders before ?
i guess the answer is that it is really easy to do what you have done, ie mix several multi media formats together in a web page to achieve some sort of educational objective.
however, there is another problem where the the podcasts are created by the classroom teacher. the time. now, as it happens, there are a whole lot of really cool science type web casts on the abc.net.au web site. not only on robin williams cience show, but there was this really good pod cast i downloaded on earth worms. fits in nicely to year 1o ecology.
now, and here is a question, will year 10 kids sit still long enough to listen to a podcast via an mp3 player into a amplifier of some system
which comes back to the old technology of the tape recorder.
4. Terri Van Zetten | June 9th, 2006 at 6:51 am
I went and visited Orange Grove Primary School recently http://www.podkids.com.au. They have been podcasting since the beginning of the year using an iLive set up and libsyn.com. The teacher, Paul Fuller says it does not take much time up compared to other projects such as video. The kids already are doing the writing, editing, listening etc and it is a little bit added to the top of it.
As much as I would like to use iLive, we don’t have the resources, so I am planning to use Audactiy and I have subscribed to libsyn http://missterri.libsyn.com, it is very easy to get started with and the one technical problem I had was answered within a day (well overnight being American).
I am hoping to have a variety of podcasts from pp-10, and most likely start with keen kids from years 4-8. The are expected to email me or tell me their idea, then script it, read it out loud and edit it, get it checked by an adult then show it to me. The kids are excited about it, so am I!.