Podcasting

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=What is a Podcast?=

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According to Wikipedia, a **podcast** is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.

Handout: [|7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting]
=Why Podcast?=


 * Publish student created content to a variety of global audiences
 * Encourage creativity, language development and use of voice
 * Encourages differentiated instruction and using multiple intelligences
 * Student learn in dynamic ways
 * Access learning using various instructional technologies

=How Do I Create a Podcast?=

1) Podcasting in Five Easy Steps:
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**1) Creating a Podcast using Audacity**
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Free Music For Your Podcast
To to download free music and sounds or those covered under the Creative Commons license, You can use sites such as: [|Freeplaymusic.com], [|Sound Snap] [|The Freesound Project], [|ccMixter], [|FindSounds] = = =Examples of School Podcasts=


 * Secondary Examples:**
 * **T****he Bishop Strachan School Podcast** - All girls private school in Toronto produces podcast episodes about student life as BSS


 * Elementary Examples:**
 * [|Portable Radio.ca] A School Podcast brought to us by Mr. Toft and Mrs. Smith @ A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School in Stittsville, Ontario
 * [|The Kindergarten Goobers] - Grade 1 class utilizing podcasting
 * [|Mrs. Gauley's Class] This link is to a podcast by the grade two's reading riddles.
 * [|Long Elementary Podcasts] Various School Podcasts @ Samuel B. Long Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan

=Examples of Instructional Podcasts=


 * 1) [|History Channel Podcasts]
 * 2) [|Discovery Channel Podcasts]
 * 3) [|National Geographic Podcasts]
 * 4) [|Vatican Radio]
 * 5) iTunesU

=Submitting a Podcast to iTunes=

In order to make your podcast widely available and subscribable, you will need to create an RSS Feed. Submitting that feed to iTunes will allow anyone to download your podcast and to subscribe to automatically receive new episode updates.

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 * Don't know what an RSS feed is? Watch this video:**


 * Creating a podcast feed: [|RSS Feed Generator]**

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 * Submitting your podcast feed to iTunes: Watch This Video**

=Podcasting Resources=


 * Podcasts can also be used as

Podcast Directories:

 * **Apple iTunes** - Can download newest version from http://www.apple.com/ca/itunes/download/
 * **Odeo** - http://odeo.com/
 * **Podcast.net** - http://www.podcast.net/

Podcast Hosting SItes:

 * **Podomatic** - http://www.podomatic.com


 * [|New Media Guides]

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