1. Anyone Can Podcast
Adventures in New Communication Media
Michael Wilkinson
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

2. Agenda
Overview – define and explain
Identify resources
Explore lesson plans
Learn by viewing, reviewing, doing
The intent of this 50-minute workshop is to
demystify the production and distribution of
podcast and to excite you to create podcast
to aid in teaching and to enable deeper
learning which elevates student achievement

3. Definition
Blends the words iPod and broadcast
Podcasting describes multimedia file
distribution
over the internet
delivered to mobile devices and PCs for
playback (time-shifting)
(typically) through syndicated feeds
Web 2.0

4. Deeper Definition
A Podcast is rich media, such as audio or
video, distributed via RSS or Atom feeds
which provide updates whenever there is new
content
“RSS is key to how people will use the Internet in the future by automatically
delivering the information that is important to them,” Dean Hachamovitch,
Microsoft, June 24, 2005
(http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/06-24rssintegrationpr.mspx)

5. New Media
Implication for Educators …
Communicating as they do engages !
IM
Email
Blogging
Text messaging

6. Podcasting In K-12
Tool in teaching for learning that sticks
USA Today Article – “as study aids”
Audio Text
Project-based learning – PARTICIPATE! CREATE!
Not exist solely as Consumers, Targets of media
Room 208 (Excellent work by young children)
here
Student Gallery @ Apple here

7. create
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3
Podcasters mp3 mp3 mp3
create upload
upload
RSS or Atom Feeds (XML)
(tags & information identifying Web server
updates to web content,
links to podcast)

8. Web-based
or
Local Install
Internet
mp3 Podcatcher
FeedReader
Aggregator
Selected
Pushed
Sync-ed
90 million iPods **
RSS or Atom Subscriptions 100K podcast, 5M
(New episodes) subscribers *
* Business Week online, April 18, 2006, Podcast Mania: FeedBurner Tracking 44,000 podcasts, Heather Green
** The Associated Press, February 6, 2007, Apple: Record Labels should drop DRM, Michael Liedtke

9. Blogs provide feeds
• Blogger – Atom
• Weblog – RSS
RSS or Atom Feeds
(tags & information identifying • Feed Reader (local install)
updates to web content,
links to podcast) • Google Reader (web based)
• Netscape 8.1 Bookmarks
• IE 7 Feeds
• iTunes -- feed reader “+”

10. Feed Examples
Chronicle of Higher Education
New York Times
NPR News Stories
NPR Podcasts
Weekly Podcast for Teachers

11. create
Episode 1
Podcasters mp3
Recording
and
Production Software
Audacity
Garageband
Portable Stand Yahoo
voice
Digital Recorder iPod, MP3

12. Podcasting in the classroom
Interviews for news stories
Oral History
Subject material Review
Student presentations
Sound-seeing tours
Advocacy
Storytelling

13. Lesson Plans (from Apple)
iPod Reporters
Using an iPod to record interviews for a newspaper story allows students to
concentrate on an interview while it is happening rather than trying to take notes
as they listen. This is especially helpful to younger students or those who face
challenges with hearing, writing, or attending to multiple tasks.
Oral Histories
During the course of study in American history, students investigate the theme of
what it means to be American in a pluralistic society. One way students can
explore this question is by conducting oral histories with a family member and
creating a presentation of the interview. Students begin to develop a better
understanding of their own family history as a means for framing a discussion and
an understanding of who they are themselves.
Learning Math With Music
Many students learn number facts faster when they can use mnemonics, rhymes,
and songs. Students love to create their own memory rhymes and songs, which
allows them to personalize math facts. The portability of the iPod can help with
developing these math skills by allowing students to listen repetitively to the math
facts inside or outside of the classroom.

14. Checklist for Podcasts
PLAN RECORD EDIT PRODUCTION PUBLISH
Topic, Scope, Studio,
Assemble Describe, Intro Upload, Feed
Purpose Remote
Musical
Casual or Adjust, Trim,
Interludes,
Polished Delete, Time
Sound Effects
“Live” or Post-
Closing, Outro
production
Material,
Questions

15. Let’s try
Three scenarios
Newton’s #3 – on laptop
Goodall’s works – on iPod
Math Mnemonic – on Creative MP3
Add music intro
Add recorded segments, music interludes
Add music outro
Upload to Podbeans

16. Michael Wilkinson
wilkinwm@gmail.com