1. The Basics of Podcasting Todd W. Jorns Senior Director for Educational Technology Illinois Community College Board

2. Podcast (iPOD broadCAST) is an audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player. Although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may contain music. Video Podcasts - vodcasts

3. Podcast Using the RSS 2.0 syndication format, podcasts are made available to subscribers just like news feeds. The client program that captures the audio feeds and synchronizes them with the music player is a "podcatcher“, such as Curry's own iPodder, available at www.indiepodder.org.www.indiepodder.org

4. Podcasting Process Access Subscribe using podcatcher Download episode Playback episode Create Record episode Edit episode Distribute Publish episode to webserver Reference episode in feed

5. Podcasting in Education Distribute course content  Provide overview of week  Distribute lecture content  Provide examples Add personalization to online classes Increase student involvement Accommodates mobile learning Student presentations or reflection

6. Podcasting Benefits Low-cost, low-barrier tool for disseminating content Designed for offline listening Content is delivered to students Frees learning from physical constraints Reaches out to auditory learners

7. Podcast Tutorials Podcasting 101 Tutorial.pdf - http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/index.cfm?page=Resources http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/index.cfm?page=Resources ION's Pointers & Clickers (Pt. 1) - http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2 007_03/index.asp http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2 007_03/index.asp ION's Pointers & Clickers (Pt. 2) - http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2 007_05/index.asp http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2 007_05/index.asp

8. Podcast Tutorials How to Podcast – http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/ Quick & Dirty Podcasting Primer - http://www.stager.org/podcasting/guide.html http://www.stager.org/podcasting/guide.html

9. Podcast – Free Software Audacity  Easy to use  Multi-track audio  Multi-platform (Mac & PC) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

10. Podcast – Free Software LAME Encoder  Allows Audacity to save audio files as mp3  Download file  Unzip the file  Place “lame_enc.dll” into the Audacity program folder http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=instal l&item=lame-mp3 http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=instal l&item=lame-mp3

11. Audacity Tutorials Part 1 https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t1.swf https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t1.swf Part 2 https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t2.swf https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t2.swf Part 3 https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t3.swf https://edocs.uis.edu/jnewe2/EDL547/tutorials/AudacityP t3.swf

12. Questions Todd W. Jorns (217) 785-0144 Todd.Jorns@illinois.gov www.flip4u.org