DESIGNING COURSES:
Podcasting & Videoblogging

Updated December 31, 2008
   
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PODCASTING, BLOGS, VIDEOBLOGGING and RSS have developed a close relationship with each other. So you might want to check out my resource page about RSS and the page about blogging.

See also my new page: Wireless in Education 12/31/08

Index for this page:

Articles & Information

Webinar: Podcasting Xtreme: Led by Jane Himmel and Julie Navar:  "When we talk about "extreme" podcasting, we're not just talking about cutting-edge tools. Rather, we're trying to help people take their podcasting to the next level by delving more deeply into the design process of producing an effective, educational podcast. How? Primarily by taking an instructional design approach, and analyzing information needs and audiences to determine if podcasting is the right match with your instructional needs. During our Webinar we also discussed current trends; how to incorporate music and other elements of commercial podcasts; hardware and software needs; and ideas about distribution - all with the goal of helping you create a more creative and engaging final podcast." [They provide the link to the the archived recording of the Webinar; click this post's title.] 9/26/07

20 Ideas for a Great Podcast: A blog posting from Carson McComas at "FrogBody". "So, while I'm still a relative podcast newbie and thinking about this, I want to jot down some notes about what I think works." These are FUN to read (I like his sense of humor) as well as helpful. I like this tip: "Be whimsical." (Easy for a PinkFlamingo!) 08/30/07

Podcasting Overview – Wikipedia: Introduction, history, mechanics, uses, managing podcasts on an iPod, related topics. 08/29/07

Why Podcast? - Apple Learning Exchange: Educators at all levels showcasing how they use podcasting for learning and teaching. 08/29/07

Podcasting in Education: from Apple. 08/29/07

Podagogy: A blog about where podcasting meets teaching and learning. 08/29/07

Podcasting Legal Guide: from Creative Commons. Provides general information about common legal questions. 08/29/07

Seven Things You Should Know About Podcasting: From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). 08/29/07

What in the world is a podcast? Student examples from the Tech Savvy Educator. Includes information about ways to make the creation of a podcast as simple as making a phone call. 08/29/07

Podcasting News: Industry news, forums, gear, directories, and many podcasts, including a top 25. 08/29/07

Coop's Word on Podcasting and Blogging by Alisa Cooper, who says her goal is "...to learn as much about podcasting and share as much as possible with you. I will continue share all right here on the Coop’s Word blog and on Coop’s Word wiki. So check back often for Coop’s Word on podcasting in education." 08/29/07

Podcasting in Education: The author explains podcasting, links to articles that show it works well in education, links to working examples, provides some ideas for you. A section entitled 'How to go about it: Curriculum and Class Management'. A technical section with info about applications, plus some downloads and resource links. 11/11/06

Create a Podcast using Powerpoint: Randolph Decker'seGram posting about a quick technique for converting your favorite Powerpoint presentations into podcasts. 10/19/06

Videoblogging and VodCasting in Education: A full page of information and links in the wwwTools For Education newsletter. Subtitles include: Resources for Beginners; Examples of Videoblogs; Educational Practice; Class Work; For Teachers; For Professional Development; Student Videoblogs; Educational Videoblogs and Vodcasts; Resource Lists; Directories; Books. 07/31/06

PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE - RULES FOR THE REVOLUTION: Published by Creative Commons, this is a very readable guide. "This Guide Does Not Provide Legal Advice"..."The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. EFF has produced a very practical and helpful guide for issues related to blogging generally (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/). This Guide is not intended to duplicate efforts by EFF, and in many cases refers you to that guide for where crossover issues are addressed. Our goal is to complement EFF's Bloggers FAQ and address some of the standalone issues that are of primary relevance to podcasters, as opposed to bloggers." 06/14/06

iPods and Podcasting in Education: from wwwTools for Education, a feature page full of information, links, resources. Headings include The Hardware; Definitions, Descriptions, Educational Values; Serious Reading for Educators - and Some Listening Too; Podcasts at Work in Education; Listings of Podcasts and Related Resources. 04/26/06

Classroom Audio Podcasting: This article defines podcasing, then describes 10 benefits of classroom podcasting. "This article provides an overview of the benefits of classroom podcasting and showcases several exemplary classroom podcasts teachers and students can use as models when creating their own. ...We need to get serious about educating today's digital natives for the digital knowledge landscape of the twenty-first century. In many ways, the traditional, 'transmission-based' educational model of the past is insufficient for the needs of today�s learners and employers. Classroom podcasts can provide engaging opportunities for students to develop desirable skills as digital storytellers and cutting-edge communicators. The price is right, and the benefits are plentiful. Isn't it time you and your students started a classroom podcast?" 01/01/06

Podcasting in Education: This article isn't really about how to adapt a popular technology as a way to pass on course information. It's a comprehensive look at the whole phenomenon of podcasting, along with a discussion of the reasons pro and con using it as on of the many teaching/learning technolgoies. "For educators, the implications of Apple’s embrace of podcasting are both exciting and troubling. The development is exciting because students will have a free, easy-to-use, dual-platform (Windows and Mac) audio-content manager that will help make podcasting pervasive and effective. Even more important for educators, the new version of iTunes enables enhanced podcasts that offer a chapter function, allowing the listener to jump directly to sections within a podcast. Each of these sections can be accompanied by an image and by a clickable URL. Since one of the challenges with audio feeds has always been that of making individual parts of the feed directly accessible, encoding chapters within podcasts (as opposed to dividing the audio into tracks, each of which would need to be downloaded separately) is a very attractive feature. Why is Apple’s embrace of podcasting troubling to educators? Because this easy-to-use audiocontent manager just happens to sit inside a store that sells music." 10/21/05

Margaret's E-Pod - PODCASTING in teaching and learning: "Welcome to Margaret's E-Pod! A spot for anyone who is interested in learning more about the use of podcasts in teaching and learning." 09/12/05

The Online Classroom Is About to Become a Noisier Place - Wired (and wireless) for sound — audioblogging, podcasting and education: Good article by Brian Lamb, Office of Learning Technology, UBC Vancouver, Dec.2004. "...paid services such as Audioblogging.com promise to introduce the medium to newcomers in much the same way that services such as Blogger.com did with personal publishing. "Voice over IP" applications like Skype open up the possibility of multiple voices interacting live, with the conversations easily recorded, edited and played back." [Brian Lamb, Office of Learning Technology, UBC Vancouver, Dec.2004] 12/25/04

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LISTEN: Educational podcasts to listen to

iTunes U: "iTunes U puts the power of the iTunes Store to work for colleges and universities, so users can easily search, download, and play course content just like they do music, movies, and TV shows. ...iTunes U delivers easy, 24/7 access [via Mac or PC] to educational content from hundreds of top colleges, universities, and educationally focused organizations across the country....Students can sync iTunes U content with any iPod or iPhone." 06/08/08

"Beyond Campus is the iTunes U area that features a broad spectrum of audio and video materials from sources other than colleges and universities, such as American Public Media, PBS, the Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian Global Sound. ...From K–12 lesson plans to interviews with famous artists, Beyond Campus on iTunes U is constantly expanding content." 06/08/08

100s of Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: Our Recession Special: OpenCulture.com says, "Every now and then, we like to make new readers aware of our extensive Podcast Library that includes 100s of cultural and educational podcasts that will make you smarter. We guarantee that. And the best part is that they’re completely free — perfect for a recession." 03/22/08

Grammar Girl: I've seen it referred to as "one of the most downloaded educational podcasts on iTunes" [reference]. A "real-life science writer", Mignon Fogarty, has built up a great resource site of "Quick and Dirty Tips: Clean Up Your Writing". My title link is to this week's tip; scroll down to see others (they're all on one page). The left panel has links to titles and a search box. I like the fact that the podcast also appears in text form. 09/03/07

Grammar Grater: "...a weekly podcast about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age. Because we live in a time of e-mail, blogs, instant messaging, even online product reviews -- everybody's a writer. And with the global nature of communication, there's not a single style guide everyone uses. To help sort through some of the confusion, host Luke Taylor and the Grammatis Personae Players (Cory Busse and Amy Ault) take linguistic bugbears and put 'em through the Grammar Grater." 09/03/07

Academic Podcasts: from Duke University Libraries 08/30/07

Education Podcast Network: Their aim is "bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. " 08/29/07

Education Podcasts with John Merrow: from PBS: Reform, best practices and testing in k-12 and higher ed. 08/29/07

Education podcasts: from Digg.com, a Community-based popularity website, the "most popular podcasts" in the topic of education. 08/29/07

Academic Technology Podcasts: from Palomar College. Covers a broad range of topics. 08/29/07

Educational podcasting for teaching and learning: Podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges. "...the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 390 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals. In our podcast directory, you can access educational content from over 4000 podcasts from different podcast channels." 06/02/07

Karen’s Mashups - K12 podcast compilation: This podcast features mashups (compilations) of short excerpts from podcasts and other digital content of potential interest to the educational community. It is intended to give you a taste of a various podcasts that you might want to explore further. Most shows will have a theme, such as math, science, student productions, professional development, museum productions, or technology news. Some shows will be focused on podcasts for administrators and teachers, while other shows will highlight podcasts for students or parents. The show is produced and hosted by Karen Fasimpaur of K12 Handhelds. On this web site, we will include links to the web sites for each of the shows included in the episode, along with brief notes on the nature of the content included. 04/05/07

Free Academic Podcasts: This site has a list of 145 (to date) links. Says the site author: "About a year ago, I put together a listing 30 or 40 free podcasts of lectures from Universities. When I started putting together another list, I was amazed at how many more lectures are available. The lectures in this list are all free and don't require any type of authentication--you don't have to be a student to download them.  The links are to the rss feed of class lectures. If you copy the URL and in iTunes click on Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast it will automatically download the lectures and new ones as they become available." 11/25/06

Podictionary: "Podictionary is the audio word-a-day. For a couple of minutes Charles Hodgson discusses the unexpected history of words you thought you already knew." There's a cute thing in the top right corner that says, "Wait a minute, I don't want to know about podcasts: An email alternative." 04/17/06

SMARTboard Lessons Podcast: "Delivering fresh and engaging lesson ideas at least weekly! ... The purpose of this site is to accompany a podcast that focuses on using SMART Boards in the classroom. Each episode will feature a lesson, a podcast, and user comments. ... The goal of this podcast to share lesson ideas that use technology to engage students in learning with a focus on SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboards between educators. It will be a maximum of 20 minutes so that teachers can listen on lunch breaks or recesses as they mark papers or on their way to school in the morning via their iPod." 04/17/06

Podomatic: "Create, find & send podcasts" Lots of categories to browse/use, including an Education category containing hundreds of podcasts and other links. "...podcasting has traditionally been restricted to the crafty, tech-savvy and patient. ... many would-be podcasters are confronted with an array of technical hurdles (i.e. recording software, RSS and XML syndication, hosting, etc). ...To expedite podcasting's transition from fad to mainstream, our goal is to drop these barriers of entry for people interested in producing podcasts." 03/05/06

The Learning Pod: "Conversation, chat, discussion and information provided by people in education for people in education together with teachers notes." 03/05/06

Odeo: "Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio—and it's free. ...As a company, we believe strongly in the democratization of media. We think that giving more people powerful tools for the creation and distribution of media will result in more knowledge, ideas, art, truth, and amusement available to all." 03/05/06

Learn to Podcast at podCast411 This is a crazy looking site -- homepage is covered with so much stuff it's a bit confusing at first. But dig deeper and you'll find kewl stuff, such as: 12/21/05

Podscope: Search for spoken words!Podscope: "Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. We’re starting with podcasts and will be adding all types of multimedia in coming months." 12/21/05

Techpod, Podcast for Teachers: A great site for you Podcast listeners. From Fordham RETC (see post below). The link above is to the current episode, or you can go directly to the Episode list to access the archive of topics discussed with brief descriptions (all about PODCASTING FOR TEACHERS). 11/16/06

Educational Technology Resources Discussed on TechPod: An extensive archive of podcasts from Fordham RETC on a wide variety of Education topics. 11/16/06

Feedzie: A search engine where you can do a specific search for audiofeeds (RSS feeds of podcasting). 08/22/05

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Tools & Technology
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AVATAR: Great Idea for a Podcast for an Online Course: In her blog, Coop's Word on Podcasting and Blogging, Alisa Cooper posts about using an Avatar to speak to her online students. She describes and links to the tools and tricks she's learned about to do this. "I’ve been podcasting for a few years now, but I wouldn’t say that my podcasts have been big hits with my students. To be honest, most don’t bother to listen. ...I’ve been tossing some ideas around to make my podcasts more interesting and useful to students. One idea that I came up with is creating an avatar for my online courses that will deliver short podcasts to students. The podcasts will include daily updates, writing and research tips, and general motivation." 08/29/07

Avid Free DV: "Professional DV Editing for the enthusiast. Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing. Easy, free ...industry-standard editing interface used by more professionals than any other video editing solution. Feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms." 12/13/05

Beyond Text: Using your voice online: Not only about podcasting. Includes other technologies for your courses -- voice chat, voice boards, voice email. "This resource demonstrates ways you can introduce online voice technologies into your course design and delivery and provide increased flexibility and engagement for learners. It can be used as an individual guide or as a resource for professional development and training sessions. There are three sections:

  • Case studies: See how teachers have used online voice tools to provide new learning opportunities for different groups of learners.
  • Facilitator guides: Gain an overview of online voice tools and how you can integrate them into teaching and learning. "The facilitator guides have been developed as an introduction to a number of voice tools and to model ways that you can integrate them into your teaching practices."
  • Future directions: Explore the future directions of voice online and how it may assist to promote new practices in innovative teaching and learning." 05/13/06

Dropshots: A Free online video host -- "family friendly photo & video sharing service". "We support MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV, and 3GP from all major digital cameras. You just drag and drop the video to our application and we resize, transcode, upload, and host your video. We use the Flash plug-in to stream the video, which is already installed in over 98% of browsers and has a 1-click install process. This makes video easy to post and easy to view." 02/03/07

Feed2Podcast: Free sign-up for this service. The Feed2Podcast engine instantly turns your blog's RSS feed into a Podcast. See this explanation and review on Jake Ludington's MediaBlab. 01/29/06

Jing: Want to make a screen-capture video (for student tutorials or whatever)? Jing is a free download of some SIMPLE and quick to use software that instantly captures images or creates your screen-capture type videos (you can include sound or voice-over if you wish). 08/30/07

PodCast Station: "All in one podcasting is here." "Podcast Station is Win 2k and XP compatible software. It is built on the professional, award winning VoxPro platform, a product sold worldwide and used in radio broadcasting news and control rooms to record and edit phone calls and other stereo audio on the fly for quick turn around to air. VoxPro Podcast Station is a single screen program that will record, mix, edit and publish your podcasts. It provides an easy to use production solution taking you from the start of a podcast to publishing on the net on one screen. It’s like having a broadcast console on your computer. No need for mixers, amplifiers, compressor-limiters, it's all built in and easy to use. On screen buttons can be assigned music, sound effects and interviews from MP3, WAV, WMA,AIFF, whatever, with the ability to play them back while recording your podcast." 04/09/06

Podcasting Tools: This site strives to have everything you need to know about podcasting. 08/29/07

Skypecasting: Now Skype offers free unlimited conference calls for up to 100 people! Read this article from Robin Good. You can join in on a Skypecast to get the feel of it (click here for links to find Skypecasts) or host your own Skypecast. 05/13/06

SchoolTube: "A network of students, educators, and professionals working together to foster video production and internet publishing in a safe online learning environment. SchoolTube gives you the ability to safely upload your video onto the internet to share with other educators or students. All SchoolTube videos have been moderated or teacher approved for viewing. Our high standards are based on the STN Code of Ethics." 09/03/07

Spoken Text: FREE online text-to-audio converter. Spoken Text records from PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. The files are saved as MP3s so you can listen to them on your favorite audio device. "Our goal is to make the conversion of text to speech as simple as possible and in so doing make it accessible to everyone. The vast majority of the technology we use in our daily lives are way too complicated and overwhelms us with unneeded options and features. To this end we focused on providing a quick and simple way to convert your text content into spoken audio, for listening to on an iPod or your computer." 10/26/07

Talkr: Talkr converts text-only blogs into podcasts in MP3 that you can listen to on your iPod. It can also convert from text to speech any material you can capture in an RSS reader. In combo with your RSS reader, Talkr can keep tabs on your feeds and send audio to your computer as those audio files become available. 07/17/05

Ziepod ~ Streaming Podcasts: "A new, outstandingly designed podcasting player, search tool and aggregator has just launched." [Robin Good's review] Another good introduction to this tool is Lockergnome's description and review, posted yesterday. 08/22/05

Zippy Videos: "Your media sharing community." Free host for an unlimited number of videos up to 100mb each. You can create your own URL on the site for sharing videos. 02/03/07

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Tutorials

Rufus White's Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Podcast: Great general overview. 08/29/07

How to Build a 10-minute Podcast: by Eric Rice. 08/29/07

Producing a Podcast with the Gear You Have Today: Very useful excerpt from Podcasting: The Do It Yourself Guide by Todd Cochrane. 08/29/07

Setting up a vodpod - for video: A blog posting at EduBlog provides a simple tutorial. "Vodpod is a great way to show videos directly in your blog. No downloading needed for the viewer." 03/02/07

Video blogging made easy: From Telus, a step-by-step how-to for those who are new to videoblogging. The article includes links to other help/tutorial sites, so I'll include those here in case this current Telus article doesn't get archived: 02/03/07

Podcast Tutorials: A long list of links to tutorials at the Podcast & Portable Media Expo website. 05/20/06

Learn to Podcast at podCast411 Tutorials galore! Check out the rest of this site while you're there. Tons of material, including many podcasts. 12/21/05

*****Freevlog: VIDEOBLOGGING Tutorials: This site has a bunch of great tutorials! You have the choice of text tutorial, an online video tutorial, or a downloadable video. TIP: While you're there, subscribe RSS to their tutorials so you always hear about their new offerings. 12/13/05

  • A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free.
  • Making a video:
    • Using iMovie (Mac)
    • Using Movie Maker (PC)
  • Compressing your video for the web, using:
    • iMovie
    • Final Cut Pro
    • Windows Movie Maker
    • Avid Free DV (edit Quicktime)
  • Setting up a Blogger blog (to host your videoblogging)
  • Making a screen capture from your video
  • Accessing free online storage for your videos:
    • Internet Archive (video hosting)
    • Our Media (video hosting)
    • Flikr (for image hosting)
  • Publishing/posting your video to your blog

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My previous posts about this site:

Freevlog 2.0: [beta] Preview Release 1a The Director's Cut. "A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free. Why is this cool? ---> It's free! What else do you want?" 06/25/05

How to Set up a FREE Video Blog: A tutorial, based using a blogger.com blog along with a couple other free online applications. Michael Verdi says, "I'll take you through creating your own free website/blog, using Flickr for free image hosting, and the Internet Archive for free video hosting." 04/01/05

Create a QuickTime .mov from Windows Movie Maker: Freevlog's tutorial: "Use this tutorial to make QuickTime .mov files from Windows Movie Maker using Avid Free DV or if you have QuickTime Pro, you can use a similar process with the same settings!" 12/13/05

V2F ~ EasyWebVideo.com: Convert various formats to Flash. Very easy to use, and quickly. Makes the files much smaller, so no big downloads. No confusing choices about players for your viewers -- everybody has a Flash Player these days. "You need a tool that will take your standard video file (.avi, .mpg, .wmv, etc.) and do several things, all with the click of a button:

  • Compress the heck out of it so it plays on the web, but retains the quality level of the original file
  • Add Player Controls (Stop, Play, Fast Forward, Rewind) to the outputted video
  • Create the HTML code to paste on your web site
  • Create a file that plays right on your web site, without having to download a large file or load a player like Media Player, QuickTime, or Real Player." 10/15/05

One Minute Tips ~ Podcast Technologies for Busy People: "...a collection of Podcasted technology tips, interviews, quickstarts and videos for people who don't have time to read manuals cover to cover. We will find and Podcast these "gems" three times a week." 12/07/05

Podcasts and e-Learning: Jim Delaney's podcast series "is designed to introduce you to fundamental postcasting development steps and ideas for featuring podcasts in your training initiatives." There's a supporting Flash tutorial, and you can subscribe to this podcast by using the RSS feed link. 11/16/05

Vodcasting, Screencasting, or Whatever you'd like to call it, and WebCT: Robin Petterd created a tutorial about the way he creates videos for students. "A system that allows me to record software demonstrations during face to face sessions with students and then deliver these to students via WebCT and RSS feeds." 09/19/05

Canada Jean-Claude Bradley, PhD., seems already to be an expert in podcasting, and doesn't seem to mind being a mentor. Here's some of his offerings for us. 08/22/05

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