Podcasting

Why use podcasts?

 * Podcasts enable students to share their knowledge and expertise with others through a creative outlet.
 * Podcasts tap into a mode of media input that is commonplace for digital natives.
 * Podcasts empower students to form relationships with the content and each other in relevant ways.

**How can podcasts be used?**

 * In the classroom, educators and students can use podcasts to inform others about class news, current events, and areas of interest.
 * Students can use a podcast forum to persuade their peers to help others, make a difference, or try something new.
 * Podcasts can also be used to edutain others through creative narratives

**How can podcasts be used?**

 * Podcasts engage students in thinking critically about their speaking fluency and communication skills.
 * The opportunity to create a podcast about what students would like to discuss and share with others is extremely motivating.

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= **Audacity**=

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to, Record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together and Change the speed or pitch of a recording. Audacity Quick Start Guide: [|audacity-quickstart.pdf] To create a Podcast you will need a audio recording tool. The best free recording tool currently on the market is Audacity. Audacity is an audio editor. It’s features include recording/playing sound, sound editing using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), track mixing, effects (including Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal). Audacity imports and exports WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files. Audacity is distributed under terms of the [|GNU General Public License (GPL)]
 * Audacity Download Tutorial And Lame MP3 Encoder
 * Audacity Tutorial for Podcasting
 * Installing Audacity with Lame Encoder for XP Tutorial

To convert WAV. file to mp3 you will need a LAME decoder installed into Audacity. The Audacity tutorial LAME direction file below are simple directions for installing a LAME file.
 * [|Audacity tutorial LAME directions.pdf]
 * [|Audacity Scavenger Hunt and Practice.pdf]

media type="custom" key="6557311" [|Learn Audacity in an Hour] - series of short, snappy video tutorials with downloadable AIFF files by Baynard Bailey of [|Vassar College]: covers opening files, editing, using specific effects and exporting.

Best of Teacher Training in Audacity

Resources for Podcasting

 * Listen To: [|Three Little Pigs PodCast] (The narrative is an overview of the science of PodCasting and its potentials for educational integration) **
 * Podcasting for Educators


 * A page of links from the PiNet digital library of David F. Warlick


 * Educator Podcast Network


 * Gcast A Podcasting Service


 * PodNova is a place to find podcasts, videoblogs and stay informed on your favourite blogs.

With PodNova you can subscribe, listen, view, read and maintain your feeds online.
 * T he Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
 * [|Intro to Podcasting - Secondary Teachers.pdf]


 * [|Intro to Podcasting - World Languages.ppt]

Resources for Podcast - use in the classroom
[|Biology Podcast] [|CNN Podcast]

[|Discovery Channel]

[|Do-It-Yourself Podcast]

[|Educational Podcast Network]

[|Learning In Hand]

[|The Naked Scientist]

[|National Public Radio: Podcast]

[|NOVA Podcast]

[|Podcasting in the Classroom] (Oregon State University)

[|WillowWeb]