These slides discuss how language teachers (MFL) can integrate podcasting into their classes. It's divided roughly into three parts: defining podcasting, listening to podcasts and creating podcasts. If you would like this, or any other of my seminars delivered in person at your school, please feel free to contact me for a quote. Twitter: @sethdickens email: i n f o (a t) d i g i t a l a n g . c o m

1. Podcasting
The Basics
Seth Dickens
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2. http://www.cdfreaks.com/userimages/apple-iphone-in-hand-thumb(1).jpg

3. 1. What is
Podcasting?
2. How to Listen
to Podcasts.
3. How to
Create a
Podcast.
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4. What is
Podcasting?
1. Introduction
to Podcasts.
2. Podcasts for
Language
Learners.
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5. Podacsting Quiz !

6. Are the following true or false?

7. Discuss with your partner.

9. There are
many
different
types of
podcast
available.
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10. You need lots of equipment to make a podcast.
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11. You need an iPod to listen to Podcasts.
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12. There are many different types of
podcast available.
You need lots of equipment to make
a podcast.
You need an iPod to listen to Podcasts.

13. Podcasting in Plain English video
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http://vimeo.com/926896
item/podcasting
http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/podcasting

15. There are
many
different
types of
podcast
available.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrojp/85740389/sizes/l/

16. You need lots of equipment to make a podcast.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockmixer/2820838763/sizes/o/

17. You need an iPod to listen to Podcasts.
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20. Two ways to learn with podcasts.

21. Creating Listening

22. Listening.

23. Authentic
language.

24. Regular
practice.

25. Subjects of
interest to
students

26. Language
Comedy
Culture
Travel

27. Whatever
your students
are
interested in.

30. Creating.

31. Controlled
speaking
practice.

32. Student
centred.

33. Comparing
and sharing
with peers.

34. Encourages
regular
practice.

35. And it’s not
just me who
thinks
they’re
great.

36. Professor
Burks
Podagogy Oakley
The
pedagogy
of
podcasting
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

37. Professor
Burks
Oakley
The power
of the
spoken
word
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

38. Professor
Burks
Oakley
Appeals to
auditory
learners
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

39. Professor
Burks
Oakley
Anytime,
anyplace
“m-learning”
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

40. Professor
Burks
Oakley
Capture the
instructor’s
enthusiasm
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

41. Types of podcasts Professor
•Presentation Burks
•Review course material;
Look ahead
Oakley
•Interview (for example, at
a conference)
•Guest lecturer
•Debate
•Recording of a campus
seminar
•Virtual field trip (walking
through a museum)
•Student presentations http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/Oakley.html

43. How to Listen
to Podcasts.
1. Finding them.
2. Listening to
them.
3. Subscribing
to them.
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44. steps
the first
Taking
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45. Find some podcasts to listen to
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46. www.delicious.com/sethdickens/diesprache2011
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http://tinyurl.com/d882l2q
http://tinyurl.com/cugvpp5

47. 1. Click on each link.
2. Find an audio file to listen to.
3. Listen and evaluate the podcast:
• quality of speech
• grading of language
• topics interesting and varied
• language level
• ease of use – Podcatcher or PC

49. Finding new Podcasts

50. iTunes Podcast search
iTunes University
BBC podcasts
IPTV
etc...!

51. www.podcastalley.com

54. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide

56. Choose a
podcatcher
suitable for
you.
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57. http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
http://www.podcastready.com/

58. iTunes Podcast Preview
http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts/id26

59. Google Reader

60. Time to subscribe

61. www.google.com/reader

62. You’ll need a Google Account

63. This is the same account as a
Blogger, or Gmail address

64. First let’s look at a “working” RSS
Reader

70. At the beginning ours will be almost
empty

71. So let’s sign up..

72. …and find some “feeds.”

73. www.google.com/reader

74. www.delicious.com/sethdickens/bz_podcast
www.podcastalley.com

76. How to Create
a Podcast.
1. Methods of
recording.
2. Audacity.
3. Uploading
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77. Recording and hosting
www.odeo.com
www.podomatic.com

78. http://audacity.sourceforge.net

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85. http://sethdickens.posterous.com