Nottingham NCSL, 1st June - 3rd June 2007

Podcast/eTwinning ideas

• sharing cultures
• story telling
• school generated musical events
• virtual tours

Curriculum relevance

Writing to explain, describe, argue and persuade

Consideration of audience, purpose and form

UK/Spain/Italy/Reunion Island Podcast Project

Making a Podcast

Aims:

To explore the use of podcasts as collaborative tool.

Workshop outline:

1. What is a podcast? (pop up here)
2. Creating and editing an audio files - using 'Audacity'
3. Saving as mp3 files
4. The upload options
5. An RSS feed - can be tricky but there are some easy options.
6. Using a Feedreader - a good way to share your podcast.

Objective:

To record and upload a podcast by the end of the workshop (or by the end of the conference)

Moodle tutorial

The basics

Loudblog

a server based application

Gabcast

Podcasts by phone

Easy Podcasting using an online service

PodOmatic

jellycast

online providers

The next step - videopodcasts

Videoblogging - combining a blog and YouTube

Downloading a podcast

Feedreader

iTunes

Students talk about their podcasting experiences

Other links:

Accessing the portal presentation

eTwinning experiences - case study of a UK school