Podcasting - A Byte Sized Education Tool

Podcasts, Vodcasts, etc. can be a great tool to address the needs of diverse learners. They provide a great way to share information with a large audience in an anytime, anywhere format. Check out this 60 second podcast on inattention. For more resources and information on how you can get started with podcasting using Audacity, check out the links in this document created by Klein's Education Technology Department.

Audacity Information

Examples of Podcasts

60 Second Science
http://podcast.sciam.com/daily/sa_d_podcast_110101.mp3

60 Second Civics
http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=60_second_civics_podcast

Heart Disease Project http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/joselyn_todd/AMTP/pfh/podcasts_from_the_heart.htm#video

Student VodCast – Use to practice Spanish
http://www.ahisd.net/campuses/cambridge/podcasts/espanol.htm

Mabryonline
http://mabryonline.org/podcasts/archives/teacher_podcasts/index.html

Real Math Episode 1
http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/measterday1/podcast.htm

Benfer Bobcat library: Select Good Boy, Fergus by David Shannon
http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/benferlibrary/bobcat_book_reviews.htm

Texas History podcasts:
http://www.texasstories.com/

Scientific American podcast Has all the 60-second Science podcasts
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/


Podcasting Resources

http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/08/10-great-ways-to-use-audacity-with-your-students/

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/seven-reasons-to-create-your-own-podcast.htm


Music Resources

Free Play Music: http://freeplaymusic.com/
Free Student Educational Use: Music may be used by students within a school or class assignment. The assignment must be part of their curriculum, must only be viewed or heard within the classroom, campus, on a school’s closed circuit television and/or public announcement system and shall be free from any charge or admission fee. This may not be put on a website.

Royalty Free Music
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html
We have permission to repost this music on an educational website (your teacher website).



Musopen: http://www.musopen.com
Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. They provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

PacDV Sound Effects: http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
TERMS OF USE: You may use the sound effects on this web site free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions but DO NOT re-sell them, post on a web site for download, or link directly to individual sound files. If you use these sound effects, please consider linking back to this site but you don't have to.

Thank you for taking the time at the end of a long day to learn something new — it was great to see you at the T-60 on Audacity yesterday! We hope that you learned how easy it would be for you or your students to create a podcast like the Benfer Book Reviews or the 60-Second Science.

As a reminder, if you would like to have Audacity on any computer in your classroom, you can go to RAP. Be sure to run two applications:
· PKG-Audacity-PRG Audacity
· PKG-Audacity-PRG-MP3 Encoder

The attachment to this email includes information about where you can find music files and sound files for use in your recordings. Please ensure that you follow the copyright information that is included about the kinds of files that can and can’t be posted on your teacher website. The document also lists websites that include podcasts and websites that provide Audacity tutorials.

One of the best places to go for almost all software tutorials is Atomic Learning: http://www.atomiclearning.com
· Username: entire Klein email address (EX: mkreml@kleinisd.net )
· Password: klein — unless you changed it. (If you enter the incorrect password, you can ask for a new password to be sent to your Klein email. Watch for it then in your Junk mail.)