Podcasting

= ** Workshop 3: Podcasting ** =

PowerPoint

Audacity (newest version): Audacity quick guide (older version): To be able to export your audio file as an .mp3, make sure to also download the LAME encoder on the [|Audacity download page].
 * Note:**

Very easy Audacity directions for students:

Handout for podOmatic:

For this workshop, we will use podOmatic, but a few other podcasting / audio file posting sites are the following:
 * itunes
 * mypodcast.com
 * feedburner
 * audioblog
 * switchpad
 * G-cast
 * Gabcast
 * Drop.io

Sites where you can find (usually free, copyright-free) online music for download and other podcasting-related resources:
 * [|Internet Archive: Images, music, audio]
 * [|Music Downloads (mp3s)]
 * [|ccMixter]
 * [|Free Legal Music Downloads (mp3s)]
 * [|JamStudio - make your own music online]
 * [|Mp3.com]
 * [|Jamendo free music for download]
 * [|SimplytheBest Free Sounds]
 * [|Partners in Rhyme Free Sound Effects]
 * [|Many .wav Sound Files]
 * [|TheFreeSite .wav sound files for download]
 * [|Freeplay Free Music Downloads]
 * [|Flashsound]
 * [|Partners in Rhyme]
 * [|Many Audacity Tutorials on YouTube]
 * [|Podsafe Audio]
 * [|Sounddogs.com]
 * [|Soundshoppe]
 * [|Findsounds]
 * [|A1 Free Sound Effects]
 * [|Flashkit free sounds]
 * [|Loop Sound (music)]
 * [|Free Samples and Loops]
 * [|More Free Music]
 * [|Royalty Free Music]
 * [|Music Bakery]
 * [|Audacity Manual]
 * [|Audacity Tutorial]
 * [|How to Rip a Music Track from a CD]
 * [|Teacher Tube Videos Related to Audacity and Sound Recording/Editing]
 * [|Beyond Text-Using your Voice Online]

[|podOmatic podcast channel embedded] =Option 1: =  Create a podcast for use in classroom instruction The possibilities for what content to podcast are limitless, from brodcasting information about homework to giving students reinforcement activities to publishing student work. Some benefits and ideas for podcast contents are the following: • Provide learning opportunities at a distance, self-paced learning, convenience for learners • Provide review of course content and/or extra content • Accommodate auditory learning style; provide audio resources for sight-impaired students • Allow guest speakers the ability to present from offsite • Provide class, program, school information • Broadcast class, program, school announcements • Listening activities (lectures & note-taking; listening for details, main ideas, inference; listening cloze; listening to stories; listening to solve problems) and pronunciation practice (for nonnative speakers) Examples: [|Lecture on making presentations] (listening to take notes) [|Telephone message] (listening to write a message) [|Various listening exercises] (Beth Bogage, SDCCD)

Option 2:

 * any writing students do (prose or poetry) can be podcast
 * weekly or monthly class news podcasts
 * record a field trip

[|Mock Job Interview] (students practice a job interview script, supplying their own information, and were videotaped pre- and post- term -- yes! podOmatic allows upload of video)

[|Movie Trailer of My Life] [|Instructor's sample] [|My American DreamGoals and Plans for the Future] [|My Changes and Transformations][|VESL 2009 podcast channel][|MCC ESL Level 5 podcast channel] [|More samples of these student projects] [|Miscellaneous]

 [|Grammar Girl] [|Englishcaster]  [|English Idioms and Slang] (discontinued but past postings still available) __[|ELLLO] __ __[|ESLPodcards] __ __[|a4esl podcasts] __ __ [|In English] __ __[|China 232] __ __ [|Many Things] __ [|VOA Special English] Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab []
 * ESL**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Citizenship** [|First Amendment Minute] [|Citizenpod] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Other subject areas** <span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea;">StoryCorps Radio Diaries [|Mathgrad.com] [|NPR] [|Discovery Channel]

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">See NPR “This I Believe” short essays with authors’ podcasts: sample materials (by Kristi Reyes) Bright Lights of Freedom <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and Do What you Love <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Plus: There are numerous online books with audio [] [] Others: (add yours here)

//**Related**://[|//Article on Using Podcasts in ESL/EFL//] [|//Russell Stanndard's Teacher Training Video on podOmatic//]

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