Discussion: Podcasting

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2014-03-11T13:40:48-06:00

Where you should be on your video project

By this point you have a storyboard, a plan for your video. This week should be the main week for creating your video, and then next week will be for you to make any revisions you need to make. Remember that you can come to mine, or any of the teachers' open labs for help. Just come and do your homework during the lab if you want to and we'll be there to assist! The schedule for the open labs is in an announcements, so click on that if you don't remember!

Remember you can also access tutorials at our badges/tutorial website, although for iMovie at least, Apple makes the best tutorials:

http://iptedtec.org/imovie_1/

http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/

or http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/

Podcasting Discussion

Even though you are working on your movies, we want to be able to teach you a little bit about podcasting, because that's another kind of media that's very useful in education. To learn about Podcasts, first view this introduction:

http://www.commoncraft.com/video/podcasting

What did you think of the video? For starters, I think it's an interesting version of an instructional video! Could this kind of approach work for other subjects? What about to teach people about the Church? Why of course! For fun, you might check out the Mormons Made Simpleyoutube channel, which uses the same kind of style.

Back to Podcasting. The video above taught you what it is. Basically, it's audio files that are wrapped up in an RSS feed. What's an RSS feed? Remember how I said your announcements pages in Google Sites were special pages that people could subscribe to in something like feedly.com so they got automatic updates? RSS is the technology that makes that work, and is something you should really know about. I use RSS, literally, every day to organize what I read, view, and hear on the Internet. To learn more about RSS, watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

Podcasting is the same concept, but with audio, and you subscribe using something like iTunes. This can be very fun, and very addicting. I have subscribed to dozens of podcasts and probably have a few hundred unheard episodes. Sigh, I'll never get to them all in my lifetime! But it's great to have really interesting and useful stuff to listen to when I'm running or in the car.

Discussion

But can Podcasting be useful for education? What do you think? Please respond below to the following questions:

1. Do you have any questions about what podcasting is?

2. What kinds of podcasts could you create as a teacher that would be useful for your teaching. What kinds of podcasts could your STUDENTS create that may be useful?

3. Remember to respond to each others' thoughts as well.