This blog post is dedicated to podcasting in education. Podcasting is an up and coming resource that is gaining popularity in a 21st century classroom. Podcasting allows the teacher and/or student to record themselves in short clips that can be listened to at the listeners convenience. Teachers can use podcast to record lectures for students that missed class and or to help students that need some more assistance with an educational topic. Teachers can use podcast to create a more interactive classroom climate.
Two unique podcasting tools are AudioBoom and iTunes. AudioBoom is a great tool for creating simple podcast and editing them slightly. iTunes is a great tool for finding podcasts that have already been made that can also be subscribed to. Two unique features of AudioBoom are: one, it allows you to create sound clips up to ten minutes in length that can easily be edited. Another unique thing about AudioBoom is the Embedding feature. After you create a sound clip, you are able to take the embedding code provided by Audacity and put it into a document that has HTML capability. This creates a sound clip along with a player to play that sound clip. The other tool I mentioned, that I am sure many of you have heard of, is iTunes. iTunes is a great source to locate and listen to podcasts. On this source you are able to subscribe to podcasts to receive podcasts when they are released. Two unique features of iTunes are; One, you are able to save, not only sound podcasts, but also video podcasts known as Vodcasts. Not all iTunes podcasters provide these videos, but the ones that do are readily available. Second, iTunes allows the user to download the podcast directly to the hard drive of their computer. This allows you to use podcast in your documents, PowerPoint's, and other resources. These are two great podcasting tools that are free for you to use.
At the bottom of this blog post you probably noticed that there is a sound clip from AudioBoom. This is about an educational podcast I found on iTunes. How did this get here? The first thing I did was I listened to a podcast on iTunes about Winston Churchill's involvement in the early stages of WWII. I found this podcast under the "what's hot" category. This particular podcast was titled The History of World War II. If I would not have found this podcast under the "what's hot" category, I would have searched "WWII" in the search bar. After I listened to the podcast I logged into AudioBoom and recorded my minute and a half clip. I did this by clicking on the red record button in the upper right hand corner of the webpage. I then saved the file and created the brief description you see beside the audio clip. Then I took and published my audio clip and clicked on it to bring it up in a new window. From here I clicked the "embed" button, copied the code, switched this blog doc to HTML and pasted the code where I wanted the audio clip to be located, in this case, at the bottom of this blog. This goes to show that anyone can locate and create podcasts fairly easily.
In the clip below, you will hear me give a very brief summary of the podcast I listened to, along with two things I learned from listening to that podcast.
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