Podcasting involves distributing audio files over the internet for playback on mobile devices and computers. Podcasts allow learning through listening to various audio content like music, lectures, textbooks, and campus tours. Students can access podcasts directly from links or through podcast software. Common misconceptions are that podcasts can only be listened to on iPods or through iTunes. iTunes offers advantages for organizing and playing podcasts. Schools use podcasting to distribute recordings of lectures and other educational content. Creating podcasts involves recording audio, editing files, and posting them online through blogs or RSS feeds.

1. PODCASTING Robert Heinrich

2. Podcasting – What is it? A podcast is an audio media file that is distributed by subscription over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

4. Learn by Listening Music Lectures Audio Textbook Student Projects Tours on Campus Enhanced Podcasts Pictures Lecture Notes Speaker Notes Distributing Commencement Addresses

5. How to Listen Students can access content directly from where the links to the files are posted on the web Podcast Software (clients) let you subscribe to and manage podcasts. http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html

6. Common Misconceptions A podcast can only be listened to on an iPod A podcast can only be listed to through iTunes You need a MAC to create a Podcast

7. With iTunes, Students Do have Some Advantages Create Playlists from Audio in library Organize playlists in convenient folders Setup Smart Playlists Add Podcasts: Subsribe, Sync, and Go

8. Additional iTunes Advantages Chapters Bookmarking Pick up where you left off Time Syncs with your iPod + iTunes Adjust playback speed on iPod Faster, Normal, Slower

9. Questions You Are Probably Asking Yourself… How does podcasting or vodcasting challenge the current "talking head" model of classroom lectures ? If all lectures are available via video and audio, do students need to go to class? How often? Why? How can they be kept in class? Who owns the content, the school, the instructor, the user? Can this content be used outside of the university community? How is it protected or secured to the owner or subscriber? Who's going to edit the content? What are the guidelines for editing? What's real - what's not? How is copyrighted material tracked and/or verified?

10. Speech to text? Acrobat allows for text to speech Podzinger Search engine for podcasts and video, is created through the use of speech recognition software. It allows searching either audio or video or both. Results are displayed with brief sections of the transcript, which can be played using the player displayed on the left of each entry or by clicking a word in the transcript.

11. Examples of Podcasting at Stockton Dr. Kristin Jacobson Podcasting Projects http://titania.stockton.edu/kristinjacobson/podcasting-projects/ Dr. Thomas Kinsella’s Milton Paradise Lost http://titania.stockton.edu/milton/paradise-lost-book-i/

12. Capturing Content Digital Personal Audio Recorder PC Software and Microphone Integrated Smart Classroom Recording System

13. Software for publishing podcasts and editing Content Audacity Cross Platform Open Source - Free Adobe Audition Windows Only Expensive Garage Band (part of iLifeSuite) Only available for MAC OS

14. How to Post a Podcast Making it available via the Web Posting your file(s) on a server with a publicly accessible URL. Post to a WebBlog Create an RSS feed. To accomplish this, you must post your MP3 file in a web folder on a web server. Then create the feed. FeedBurneris one free tool you can use. Making it available via iTunes Submitting the URL for your RSS feed to iTunes

15. Posting to a Blog Your podcast is basically just a blog with audio. Podcasting uses the same feed technology as many blogs. Your audience receives the audio file through the feed in addition to the text. Usually each blog entry/post is one episode of your podcast. The post consists of your show notes (an outline of the episode’s contents), links to any related information or sources and probably a link to the MP3 file for the episode. The feed from your blog tells the subscriber’s podcatcher where to download the audio file.

16. RSS One of the great things about listening to podcasts is that you can subscribe to what’s called an RSS feed. Once you’re subscribed, your podcatcher will check the feed regularly for new episodes. When a new episode is posted, the podcatcher will automatically download the audio file for you to listen to. An RSS feed is nothing more than a specially formatted text file. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. You don’t need to worry about understanding RSS or writing out the feed file by hand. There are ways to create it automatically.

17. Planning Your Podcast Determine a topic Pick an appropriate format for your podcast Consider the optimal length Develop a schedule Write a script Plan to record in a quiet area

18. Planning your Podcast Preview Inform Recap Tease

19. Planning your Podcast Keep Topics Moving Three to Five minute Segments Focus on one key point at a time Music adds to your Podcast

20. Audacity Download and Install Audacity Software Download and Install the LAME MP3 Encoder Ensure that your Recording and Playback Devices are Configured Start Audacity Record a Podcast Export Podcast to an MP3 File

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