Chapter 8
Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, and Live Streaming
Multimedia Publishing for the Masses
§ Expanding the Web into multimedia is evolving fast ….students and teachers are using live streaming tools to broadcast live to global audiences.
§ Today we have podcasters creating their own Internet radio, videobloggers producing their own Web television, and screencasters who are capturing what happens on a computer screen, adding a bit of audio narrative and publishing it as multimedia Web tours or stories (p. 111).
§ Due to modern technology, it has become much easier to create and consume multimedia as well as text and digital images.
§ What is Podcasting? – Podcasting can be defined as the creation and distribution of amateur radio, however, the distribution of it is most important (p. 112).
§ Most news programs, like Meet the Press and 60 minutes, as well as many radio shows like Fresh Air from NPR are offered up as podcasts so you can take them with you and listen to them whenever you like (112).
§ You do not need a lot of technical experience to make podcasting work.
§ To create a basic podcast you will need the following: a digital audio recorder that can create an MP3 file, some space on a server to host the file, a blog, and something to say.
§ Podcasts are easy to create and easy to consume because of RSS.
§ So who is podcasting? People from all different walks of life; politicians, businesses, churches, governments, and schools (p. 113)
§ Apple has incorporated support for listening and subscribing to podcasts into iTunes, its software for managing music on the iPod (p. 114).
§ iTunes is free for download from the Apple site (www.apple.com/itunes/). Go to the iTunes store homepage and click on the podcasts link the ine top left section. Under the categories that come up, select “Education,” and in the “More Education” box, click on K-12. There you will see all of the iTune podcasts of the day as well as links to those that are featured. (p. 114).
§ One way to get into the flow of education-related podcasting is to visit the Education Podcast Network (www.tinyurl.com/66grdx) which list 1,000 different education-related shows (p. 115).
§ Podcasting is another way for students to create and contribute ideas and conversation for future audiences, i.e. Radio Willow Web from Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha, NE (www.tinyurl.com/2z2ujz). The Website says, these Willowcast are “online radio shows for kids by kids”
§ Video Publishing - As elementary students love podcasting, older students have gravitated to video.
§ Bought by Goodgle back in 2006, YouTube.com has an enormous disruptive effect on our society and more and more students go to publish the artifacts of their lives (p. 121)
§ Marco Torres, a social studies teacher at San Fernando High School in California has had hundreds of students producing and publishing video both online and at the local “I Can festival deCine” (www.tinyurl.com/6aalqr).
§ Once you have a camera and you have shot some video, you will need to do editing and production.
§ If you can’t use YouTube as a video repository, try TeacherTube and create a free account and use the very easy upload process to get your videos online.
§ Screencasting – A relatively new medium and is one step up from podcasting.
§ The easiest way to understand screencasting is to watch one.
§ Wikipedia has a screencast done by John Udell at www.tinyurl.com/ydp2sfg, check it out!
§ Screencasts can be created to support materials when teaching complex skills on the computer.
§ Training video can be created for peers, narrate PowerPoint-created tours for parents or make video collections of exemplary student work.
§ Students can annotate their work in voice as they show it on screen or create their own Internet tours.
§ If you can podcast, you can screencast.
§ Live Streaming - Web TV For the Classrooms - The most recent entry into the multimedia publishing discussion is live-streaming (p. 125)
§ Teachers and students can create their own TV shows online in just a few clicks.
§ The online video streaming site of choice is at Ustream.tv, a free site that not only makes streaming easy but offers a chat room for viewers to interact with while watching.
§ Podcasting, videocasting, screencasting, and now live-streaming TV are all great ways to get student content online (p. 129).
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