Blackboard Podcasting Course Content For existing Blackboard users

Blackboard: Podcasting Course Content For existing Blackboard users interested in adding audio or video content to a course. This content can be made available to students in a course only, or shared with the world through i. Tunes U. David Wicks | Assistant Professor | Director of Instructional Technology Services | Seattle Pacific University | dwicks@spu. edu

Overview Questions Create, edit, publish Basics, benefits, concerns Definitions. Podcasting Open Content i. Tunes U How to get a free guest lecturer

Web 2. 0 Technologies Web 2. 0 Definition Technology Wiki Hawaiian word for “quick”, a website where users can add and/or edit content collaboratively using only a web browser Examples http: //www. wikispaces. com http: //pbwiki. com http: //ikiw. wikineon. adaptavist. com/display/ikiw http: //www. wetpaint. com Uses in Blackboard Collaborative projects Benefits Metacognition Ongoing course feedback Challenges Equal voice for all Training Slackers can’t hide Appropriate History can be project replayed Wikipedia fallout Contextual organization, not chronological Blog Short for “web log”, a http: //www. weblogg-ed. com website designed to https: //www. blogger. com be an online journal or diary. May allow others to comment on postings Reflections, journals Podcast Short for “i. Pod http: //www. spu. edu/itunes broadcast”, http: //itunes. stanford. edu/ audio/video files are http: //www. duke. edu/itunes/ posted on the internet. Users subscribe to feed so files automatically downloaded they are available Lectures, Unlimited replays clarification, Instant guest feedback, lecturer student projects May be a way to increase in-class discussion Need prompts to discourage rambling May need to be private to encourage selfreflection Increases skipping? Digital divide? Intellectual property concerns

Podcasting • Short for “i. Pod broadcasting” • Audio/video files are posted on the internet • Students can subscribe to feed so files are automatically downloaded as they become available

True or False? A podcast must be played back on an i. Pod. False, It can be played back on an i. Pod or another MP 3 player. Any computer with audio capabilities can play a podcast

Open Content and i. Tunes U

Podcatcher • Client software or player for podcasts • Used to download and aggregate podcasts • Synchronizes with i. Pod or MP 3 player • Technology: RSS feed

Basic Steps 1. Create 2. Edit 3. Publish

Is podcasting easy? • Producing podcast may be easy if satisfied with “first take” – Tools Vendor Cost URL PPT to i. Pod $50 http: //www. wondershare. com/ Prof. Cast $60 http: //www. profcast. com Snap. Kast $60 http: //www. snapkast. com Adobe Premiere Elements $40 http: //www. adobe. com/products/premiereel Quick. Time Pro $30 http: //www. quicktime. com Audacity Free http: //audacity. sourceforge. net/

Benefits Unlimited replays Instant guest lecturer May be a way to increase in-class discussion Creates a “theatre of the mind” “Explaining Voice” Campbell, G. (2005). There's something in the air: Podcasting in Education. EDUCAUSE Review , 33 -46.

Concerns • Intellectual Property • Open Source Content • Digital divide? • Increases skipping?

Basic Steps 1. Create 2. Edit 3. Publish

Creating a Podcast Record audio in the ITS studio Have ITS record a/v in the field Use headset microphone with PC Use Web 2. 0 recording device to capture a/v in the field GIGO – Bad recordings = bad podcast Think carefully about what should be included in a Podcast recording

Editing a Podcast • Have ITS edit audio • Edit it yourself using Quick. Time Pro or Audacity • Think about: – What should be included in a podcast? – Meta data

Publishing a Podcast • Have ITS upload it to i. Tunes U for public viewing • Upload content to Blackboard course using Podcast LX http: //www. spu. edu/itunes/images/submit_course_lecture. pdf

How to link to an existing i. Tunes U file To create a URL to a specific FILE on i. Tunes U (to the actual. mp 3), follow these directions: 1. 2. 3. Right-click on the TAB that contains the file in i. Tunes U Click "Copy i. Tunes Store URL" Paste the URL into internet explorer https: //deimos. apple. com/Web. Objects/Core. woa/Browse/spu. edu. 1170867139. 01170867146 4. Change the word "Browse" in the URL to "Feed" and hit enter to go to the site https: //deimos. apple. com/Web. Objects/Core. woa/Feed/spu. edu. 1170867139. 01170867146 5. Find the link to the file you want, right-click on it, and click "copy shortcut“ You now have a URL to the actual file independent of i. Tunes.

Review Questions Create, edit, publish Basics, benefits, concerns Definitions. Podcasting Open Content i. Tunes U How to get a free guest lecturer

Questions? its@spu. edu 206. 281. 2170