student podcast projects alan bessette [email protected] poole gakuin university glocall - 2007
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Goal of presentation
Outline what I did to guide students in producing their own podcasts
Provide resources so that you can create podcasts with your own students
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Podcast projects
http://www.poole-englishweb.com/pooleblog/
Interview
Radio podcast
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Goals
Motivate students Providing a real audience Encouraging student to be more careful when
producing language Challenging students
Provide authentic opportunities to use English
Continuity with course goals
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Background
Number of students: 9 Level: high intermediate to advanced Length: one semester (about 14 weeks)
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Podcasts were one in a series of projects
School newspaper Video projects
Cooking show Introducing Osaka Castle
Goal: Graduation project Video introduction of three world heritage
sites in the Osaka area
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Tools for project
Wordpress blog (http://wordpress.org/) Place to upload podcasts Open source blog platform
Podpress (http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/) Podcast plugin for Wordpress Automatically creates feeds (RSS2, iTunes and
ATOM and BitTorrent RSS) Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Open source editing software Recording studio
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Alternative tools
Hosting alternatives Blogger (https://www.blogger.com) and
Edublogs (http://www.edublogs.org) Both have plugins similar to podpress
Odeo (http://www.odeo.com) and Podomatic (http://www.podomatic.com) Not as flexible, but make uploading a podcast easy Only for podcasts
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Alternative tools
Sound editing Garage Band for Macs Quicktime Pro
Quiet room with computer and mike or digital recorder
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Podcast projects
Student interviews: Students interviewing each other About summer vacation About music
Student radio podcasts: Students creating and producing a radio podcast Interviews and music
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Organization
Students divided into groups of 3 Two performers One sound engineer and editor
Responsible for cueing performers and editing the final podcast
All share in deciding content of podcast
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First step - Planning
Most important Decide
Roles Contents of podcast
Plan the language that is needed Use dictionaries Use teacher as resource
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Planning: Interview
Deciding interview topic How to introduce topic and interviewee Decide on questions to be asked Outline answers to questions How to conclude interview Decide on blog layout for podcast
Title Explanation Pictures
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Planning: Radio Podcast
Choose songs Outline topics to be talked about
Upcoming events Movies News
Decide on blog layout for podcast Title Song list Pictures
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Music resources for radio podcasts
Podsafe Audio: http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ 24 genres and 1,000 + artists
Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/ 2,834 pages of songs Must register A few songs cost money to download
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Copyright issues
Songs are under Creative Commons license Cannot use songs for commercial purposes Must attribute songs to the artist
Podcasting Legal Guide http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
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Producing the podcast
Practice before recording Record in Audacity and save recordings
as mp3 files Record the radio podcast in small sections
Intro, talk between songs, and conclusion
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Editing - Interviews
Interviews were single small files 5 – 8 MB / less than 10 minutes
Editing done with Audacity Cleaning up the recording Eliminating long silences, retakes
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Editing – Radio podcasts
Recorded in sections so there were 8 to 12 small files that needed to be spliced together 20 to 30 MB / 20 to 30 minutes
Editing done with Audacity Cleaning up student recordings Splicing files together
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Resources for using Audacity
Recording Audio http://www.public.iastate.edu/~volkerh/projects/podca
sting/tutorials/recording_audacity/recording_audacity.html
Importing and Editing http://www.public.iastate.edu/~volkerh/projects/podca
sting/tutorials/import_audacity/import_audacity.html Adding music tracks
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~volkerh/projects/podcasting/tutorials/music_tutorial/music_tutorial.html
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Uploading to blog or website
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Uploading to blog or website
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Assessment
Teamwork How well did the team members work
together? How well did the team members share the
work? Planning & Practice
Completion of podcast planning worksheets Final product should reflect amount of
practice
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Assessment
Presentation Presence of required components
Creativity How interesting Number of comments
Language skills Self-evaluation by students
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Student feedback (Radio Podcasts)
Overall Interesting & good experience Being a DJ was fun Enjoyed choosing songs New experience
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Student feedback (Radio Podcasts)
Benefits Having to talk for a long time provided
speaking practice Learned new vocabulary
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Student feedback (Radio Podcasts)
Student suggestions Engineer role not needed All group members should speak More practice time
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Reflections
Spend more time with editing skills Have all students speaking Other types of podcasts
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Ideas for podcasts
Dramatic readings Radio play, e.g., Orson Wells’ War of the
Worlds Roundtable discussion of literature or
current issue / problem Presentation of research CMC