Join a Revolution: Podcasting in the Classroom

JOIN A REVOLUTION:PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM

Jason NeifferAssistant Director/Curriculum Director @ MTDA

NCCE Tech-Savvy Teacher-in-Residence

Doctoral Candidate @ University of Montana

@techsavvyteach

Mike AgostinelliInstructional Program Manager @ MTDA

NCCE Tech-Savvy Teacher-in-Residence

@mikegusto

These slides:http://blog.ncce.org

Have you heard of podcasting before?

Have you downloaded a podcast before?

Do you regularly listen to podcasts?

Have you or your students created a podcast before?

Podcasting: Listening & Consuming

Why a revolution?

Requires a specific technology to access

content

Scheduled and available in real time only

Requires expensive technical equipment

to produce

Requires expensive technical equipment

to distribute

Requires permission to distribute

Requires a large audience for economic

viability

Requires a specific technology to access

content

Content is available 24/7, archived to your

device

Low cost equipment required to produce

content

Low cost services required to distribute

content

No permission required to distribute

Audience can be large or small due to low

expense

Requires a specific technology to access

content

Content is available 24/7, either archives

locally or streamed to your device

Smartphone can be used to produce/edit

content

Smartphone can be used to distribute content

Expense is less of a divide due to wide

adoption of cell phones

What has been disrupted in education?

Content availability

Distribution channels

Personal access

Demo

Desktop vs. Mobile Apps

Desktop Apps

•No special equipment required

•Free software

•Easy to manage in the background

Mobile Apps

•Portable

•Viewable/listenable offline

•Archived

Desktop Apps

•iTunes

•Websites

Mobile Apps

•PocketCasts(iOS/Android)

•Downcast (iOS)

•Podcasts (iOS)

•Stitcher (iOS/Android)

Podcasting as Content Library

Traditional Providers

Podcast Networks

Upstarts

Individuals

Lab: Download a Podcast

Integration

Media Diversity

•Video and audio content

•Diversity of voices

Information Orchestration

•Teacher as “information orchestrator”

Personalized Learning

•Free and available content

Podcasting: Producing & Distributing

Three Key Decisions on Publishing Podcasts

What to record?

•Interview?

•Research Presentation?

•News?

•Oral Histories?

How to record?

•Mobile Device?

•Laptop/Desktop?

•Editing?

How to distribute?

•School webpage or blog?

•Podcast service?

•CD/DVD/flash drive?

Desktop Apps

•Audacity (Free, Windows/Mac)

•Adobe Audition (Windows/Mac)

•Garage Band (Free, Widnows/Mac)

Mobile Apps

•Dozens of free MP3 recorders!

•SoundCloud

Hosting

School Website Hosting

Advice for Integration

Limit Production

Time

Decide WHAT You

are Grading

Provide Support to Students

Temper Expectations

THANK YOU!Jason Neiffer

Assistant Director/Curriculum Director @ MTDA

NCCE Tech-Savvy Teacher-in-Residence

Doctoral Candidate @ University of Montana

@techsavvyteach

Mike AgostinelliInstructional Program Manager @ MTDA

NCCE Tech-Savvy Teacher-in-Residence

@mikegusto

http://blog.ncce.org