DIY Podcasting: Benefits for Teaching and Learning

DIY Podcasting: Benefits for
Teaching & Learning
Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D. 

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Executive Director, Office of Academic Technology
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Rev. 10/2013

Educational Objectives
You will learn…

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The history of podcasting
How to

– Create
– Publish
– Distribute your own podcasts
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The benefits of podcasting for teaching & learning
Where to look for more information

DIY Podcasting: Benefits for Teaching & Learning

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Web 2.0 – Now YOU can participate
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Web 1.0

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Web 2.0

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

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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
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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.


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Podcasting, a Marriage of MP3 & RSS
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Adam Curry, the “Pod Father”

– 1st video jockey on MTV

– www.curry.com
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Daily Source Code (2004)
(dailysourcecode.mevio.com)

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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

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


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RSS 2.0 Makes Podcasting Work
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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
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> 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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Podcasting – How does it work?
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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)

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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

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Hardware Requirements

– PC or Mac
– Microphone
– MP3 file Host Server
– Show Notes Host Server

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Software Requirements

– Sound waveform editor
– Blog

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Create your Podcast


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Buy a good quality microphone
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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
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Sample from RPP #1 (2/2006) 

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Sample from RPP #115 (10/2013)

 


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Get a good audio editor
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Audacity (free) 

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Garage Band

 


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Audacity


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Publish your Podcast


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Publish Your Audio File

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Find a site to host your MP3 recordings

– PodBean
– Libsyn
– Blackboard
– Many website hosting companies


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Publish Your Show Notes

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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

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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
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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
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Podcast Directories

– http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
– http://www.podcastalley.com/
– http://www.musicalley.com//
– http://www.podfeed.net/
– http://www.apple.com/itunes/  Most Important!

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Other Promotional Tools…


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Listening to a Podcast
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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)
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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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Benefits for Teaching & Learning

Podcasting is booming…

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
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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)

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Podcast LX (www.learningobjects.com)


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Podcasting Scenario : Clinician


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Podcast Benefits Teaching & Learning

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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

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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


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50 Educational Podcasts You Should Check

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/50-educational-podcasts-youshould-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-bestpodcasts-2012_b_2432058.html

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Podcasting Scholarly Publications
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Lin, Shinjeng, Joseph C. Zimmer, and Velma Lee. "Podcasting Acceptance on Campus: the Differing Perspectives of
Teachers and Students." Computers & Education (2013).

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Khoshkish, Shayan, Ali Faturechi, and Ahmad Reza Dehpour. "Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and
Attitude Evaluation." Acta Medica Iranica 51.1 (2013).

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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.

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Hasan, Md Masudul, and Tan Bee Hoon. "Podcast Applications in Language Learning: A Review of Recent Studies."
English Language Teaching 6.2 (2013): p128.

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Kendall, Ross. "Podcasting and pedagogy." Mobile pedagogy and perspectives on teaching and learning (2014):
41-57.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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…
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Rodney B. Murray, PhD
www.RodsPulsePodcast.com
rod@rodspulsepodcast.com
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QUESTIONS?


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