Podcasting

Dai Thomas Warden Park

“A podcast is a multimedia file

distributed over the Internet using
syndication feeds, for playback on
mobile devices and personal
computers.
Wikipedia [accessed at 21/11/06]

Podcasting:Students as content creators

 “Sir I’m on itunes”
• A method of quickly publishing to a
mass audience
• On demand
• Uses audio therefore caters for
auditory learners
• Taps into the personal mp3 player
revolution
• Aggregated through RSS
Podcasting:Students as content creators
 Why is it useful?
• Personalised learning
• M- generation(Media centric,Mobile)
• Concurrent Activity:By concurrent
engineering of learning experiences for/by
learners
• Learning platform ready
• Aggregated through RSS

Podcasting:Students as content creators

 So how do I Podcast?
1.Record your audio-
software,website,personal recording
device
2.Edit your audio or mix- software
3.Process file as mp3 file type
4.Upload to some web space
5.Target the file with RSS feed
Podcasting:Students as content creators
 Useful Tools:
• Audacity, Levelator
• Podsafe sounds (The music
department!,Audio network, Acidplanet)
• Elgg, Moodle,Loudblog
• Feedburner, Feedforall
• Odeo, Podomatic,
• itunes, Juice,podcastready,Fireant
,browser

Podcasting:Students as content creators

 Projects:
• Warden Park Radio
• Audio revision notes for MFL and
Science and ICT
• Drama?
• English?
• Book Reviews

Podcasting:Students as content creators

 Future Forging:
• Digital Journey Mashups
• Vidcasting- Maths Quadratic brackets
• Warden park prefect radio team
• Skype casting
• Podcasting- DOFE

Podcasting:Students as content creators

 Reading & Resources:
• Audacity tutorials
• BT assignment podcast
• Coming of Age: An introduction to the
new worldwide web
• Odeo
• Podomatic

Podcasting:Students as content creators

Podcasting:Students as content creators
Podcasting:Students as content creators