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At a day on podcasting

December 8th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Podcasts

Today I am in Wolverhampton taking part in a day on using podcasting.

So far we have had two sessions, both of which were very interesting but rasied some interesting issues - more about that later.

At the moment I am supposed to be learning to use Itunes and have downloaded the Ricky Gervais podcast - must do the same on my system when I get home.

Technology section of Itunes site

DiggNation looked to be a bit over the top so now I am looking at Go Digital which is a weekly broadcast on digital technology news - looks to be well worth a download.

While I listen to Go Digital I am downloading ITC: open Source which have IT conversations - after the adverts there was a presentation by “an expert in the field” - might be worth exploring further - take a look later.

Now I am looking at WebDevDesign- 21st Century: set up for web designers but seems to concentrate on technologies like Flash - may be of interest to keep up to date with some of the technologies but I will have to be selective.

Science Section

NOVA E=MC2 ideas about Einsteins contribution to science from different scientists - may be well worth a further look - casts are quite short

Then A NASA site Science@ NASA - short podcasts about astronomy - I am listening to Moon storms and it an interesting idea which links into the NASA technology experiments.

I am now going to http://itunes.stanford.edu/ to look at their material. If you go to their site with Itunes software open then their page goes directly into it. I went to Faculty Lectures and looked at the lecture on global warming - need to take a further look but seems to be a limited selection.

Audacity

Free download but need to download and install Lame as well to transfer to MP3. Need to locate the lame file from within audacity so remember where you have put it. Can add in Creative Commons music for educational purposes.

I have used audacity to make a podcast but I can’t find how to put it on my blog. So I put in on my e-learning wiki. Now I will try to link to it.

Looked at text readers like ReadPlease and Textaloud - Google “text to speech”

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  • 1    rowlandg // Dec 8, 2005 at 2:44 pm

    I am writng a comment here because the message was getting a bit long.

    Final conclusions:

    Can be used in diagnosis with a student being recorded using the Ipod.

    Audio instructions, languages, performing arts.

    Learners who are auditory learners this may help.

    Students could do “secret learning”.

    Used in assessment instead of video - but is it a real use?

    Students on “field trips” could record their ideas so that others could hear them later.

    Students doing group assessment could record their contribution to the group - could be part of an e-portfolio

    Might be an alternative way of presenting information for some dyslexic students.

    It was difficult to think of ideas that would involve students that used the strengh of podcasting i.e. the RSS feed - it all seemed to be about more efficient ways of giving students information. Perhaps we could attach a podcast to a student blog so that at least the presence of the podcast was sent to the user.