Podcasts: How to Make Them, Why You Should

Thomas DeVere WolseyProfessional Development Institute

California Reading AssociationNovember 5, 2011

Podcasts: How to Make Them,

Why You Should

New literaciesSocio-cultural traditionsConstructivist traditions

Theoretical perspectives

Podcasting with childrenTime spent learning to use the technology

Motivation, listening skills, and interpersonal skills (Dlott, 2007)

Podcasting

Podcasts expand opportunity and access to the teacher or professor’s lectures.Revisiting the lecture Flipping the classroom

Implications for Teachers

Podcasting with scripts may provide more accessibility via adaptive technologies for special needs students

Proficiency with technology for personal uses to their roles as teachers may not transfer automatically.

Teachers can improve their content teaching through increased attention to traditional and new literacies. integrate technology and content

Implications

Composing opportunitiesUsing scripts and storyboards

PresentingConstructing knowledge

Podcasts as texts

Implications for Students

Microphones and HardwareAudacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Garage Band

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ TelephoneDigital recordersiTunes & RSS Feeds

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

. Course Management Systems:BlackBoard and the Baylor Podcasting Building Block

How

Podcast by Phone

Call: 646-200-0000

Course Management Systems

Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/index.php

Pocast.com http://www.podcastalley.com/index.php

iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Podcasting on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c

Podcasting on CNN http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/

Education Podcast Network: http://epnweb.org/

BlackBoard http://www.blackboard.com

More resources

http://techliteracypreconinstitute09.ning.com/group/podcasts

Itunes groupDigital recorder groupMicrophone groupPhone groups

http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/TWolsey

Try it out

Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D. Walden Universitytom.wolsey@waldenu.edu

Contact

Davis, A. & McGrail, E. (2009). “Proof-revising” with podcasting: Keeping readers in mind as students to and rethink their writing. The Reading Teacher, 62(6), pp. 52-529. doi: 10.1598/RT.62.6.6

Dlott, A. M. (2007). A (pod)cast of thousands. Educational Leadership, 64, 7, 80-82.

References