Week+3

This week we are looking at vodcasting and podcasting. We will start with a review of what is available "out there". There are many ways to search. Try googling "Educational podcasts" or "Educational vodcasts" (podcasts are generally audio files, vodcasts are video).

What is the difference between a podcast and a regular audio file? You can subscribe to podcasts using a tool such as iTunes, and then any new audio or video files uploaded to the site you have subscribed to will become available for download to your iPod or MP3 player.

So what is out there: My favourites include: http://www.vodcasts.tv/category/8/Education Any of the ABC vodcasts for example http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/tv_video/vodcasts.htm SBS also podcasts a number of episodes http://www20.sbs.com.au/podcasting/ So do many international and national media groups such as PBS http://www.pbs.org/podcasts/ Then try Discovery channel http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/podcasts/podcasts.html

and even Shakespeare http://www.shakespearecast.com/

The next thing we will do today is create our own podcasts, and vodcasts. Education Queensland has its own project rooms which will support podcasting and vodcasting. We will use alternatives. We will use My Podcast (http://www.mypodcast.com) for audio podcasting, and we will use Blogger (together with FeedBurner - another Google tool) for video podcasting (vodcasting).

Instructions for the Video podcasting are available on the page in this wiki called "Podcast".

The audio podcasting is really so simple through My Podcast that it needs no instructions!

What is the use of podcasting? I have summarised a few introductory ideas about the pedagogical purpose at http://wfass1.mypodcast.com/index.html

We also created a Voki ([]) We created a tag cloud at []

We made a Moviemaker movie (you will find it in your Programs from your start menu. WE uploaded it to our blogs. Finally we used FeedBurner to to burn a feed of the videos uploaded to our blogs.