Podcasting and Video

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What is Podcasting & Vodcasting?	Mics and Sound Recording
Cameras and Video	Podcast Tutorials
Podcasting for Educators	Pod/Vodcasts for Educators

What is Podcasting/Vodcasting?

Podcasts deliver audio content for listening and Vodcasts deliver video content for viewing on a computer or player. Delivering educational material this way frees learning from the constraints of a classroom and its clock. It also provides students with another way to learn that may better suit their learning style or their schedules.

The audio (podcast) or visual (vodcast) content is delivered over a network via free subscription. It can be accessed with an iPod (or any other kind of recorder), laptop, or desktop computer (both Macs and PCs).

A podcast’s content can be anything conveyed by an audio or video file: a recorded lecture, a foreign language lesson, a demonstration of biology principles. Instructors can easily create a podcast of daily assignments and lectures from class, and publish it for all of their students. Students can likewise create and publish content and deliver it to their teachers or other students.

Here are a few links to information that will help you understand Podcasting. Further below you will find tutorials on how to create a podcast.

Podcasting in Plain English Quick video on uTube that explains podcasting from Common Craft Productions
7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting from Educause
O'Reilly's Digital Media explanation of podcasting, tools and how-to
For definition and links go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Podcasting PowerPoint presentation by Instructional Designer Mary Ellen Bornak

Mics and Sound Recording

Mics: Lavalier (lapel), snowball (multi-dimensional) mics and headsets can be borrowed from Media Services. These provide the best quality audio. However, you could use the mic that came with your computer, or buy an inexpensive headset with a mic. (recommended).

How to Use Microphones This is a tutorial about how to choose a mic and how to use it correctly.

Free Sound Recording Software

Audacity Sound Recording software: Free download for PC and Mac recording program.
How to download and install Audacity Be sure to download and install the LAME MP3 converter.
Audacity tutorial: How to Podcast
What to do if the sound quality doesn't play well in a Flash Player: LAME MP3
Garage Band comes free on Macs. This presentation Creating Podcast by Mary Malinconico from Gloucester County College describes how to record and edit a podcast using Garage Band.
http://www.blogger.com create a blog that can link to podcasts
http://www.blogspot.com free podcast host
Switch Sound File Converter Download the free program to convert sound files.

Cameras and Video

Cameras: With its hideaway USB connector, the Pure Digital Flip is a lightweight video camera that makes it easy to capture and share low-resolution video via e-mail and the Web. It comes with either 1GB or 512MB of built-in memory (60 or 30 minutes of video), plus software for connecting to video-sharing Web sites YouTube and Grouper. It is also compatible with Macs.

Online Learning has Flip video cameras that you can borrow.

7 Things You Should Know about Flip Video Cameras from Educause.
The Flip Support Center Download tutorials and instructions. Flip cameras create .avi files. They must be converted to MPEG4 or .mov to upload into a course management program, iTunes U, or You Tube.
Embedding video links Instructions on how to embed video links in a web page.
Squared5 MPEG Streamclip for Mac and Windows is a free video converter to play and convert various file formats including AVI to MPEG4. MPEG4 can be uploaded to iTunes U and You Tube.
How to Convert avi to a Quick Time Movie: AVS video converter and instructions. Quick Time can be uploaded to iTunes U or You Tube.
YouTube Community: How Do I? answers and bug reports, etc.
YouTube Captions and Subtitles: How to add captions and annotations to a YouTube video.

Podcast Tutorials

itunesu This gateway page to Bucks site on iTunes U has step-by-step instructions on how to create podcasts and vodcasts. Also, how to upload those files to BCCC on iTunes U.

Podcasting for Educators

Creating Files for iPod Quiz and iQuiz. Tutorial on how to use Respondus or StudyMate to turn a self test activity into a handheld game that you can upload to BCCC's iTunes U site. It would then be automatically downloaded to student's digital devices through their iTunes subscription.
Guide to Podcasting for Educators from Educause
Podcasting 101 - How Educators Can Use This New Technology from techLearning.
Gear for Podcasting in Education Podcast from Podcamp covers subjects from iPods to mics with links to lots of resources from BEEP (Best Educational Practices)
"Beyond Lecturecasting: Using Podcasts for Discussion and Student Content Creation" is from Sloan Consortium
Teaching with Technology White Paper that is an exploration of educational podcasting in three realms: the creation and distribution of lecture archives for review, the delivery of supplemental educational materials and content, and assignments requiring students to produce and submit their own podcasts.
Podcasts: How to Use Podcasts in the Classroom
Educational Podcasts for Teaching and Learning from the UK
Creative Commons offers information on copyright including a "some rights reserved" approach to copyrighting original material.
Podcasts: List of podcasts that Educause Connect has produced.
Resources for Educational Podcasting
Podcasting News in Higher Education