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Science- PodCasts

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Wonderful World Of Podcasting

photo from Podbean.com

Podcasts are a great way to communicate with students via the internet. It is a helpful tool that teachers can use for independent research and classwork. Podcasts are easily accessible and usually free. You can make a Podcast on any subject. A podcast can be used for audio, linking other sites, visual updates and more.

The University of Texas in Austin is using this as a working definition of Podcasts:

A podcast is a digital audio or video file that is episodic; downloadable; programme-driven, mainly with a host and/or theme; and convenient, usually via an automated feed with computer software.

Creating a podcast with a Mac Book:

The listed link provides a very helpful tutorial video.

Steps:

Open Garage Band application (this is the guitar icon).
Select New Project
Select the Pod Cast icon in the lower right hand corner then choose and create.
Choose a vocal track (male or female)
Click the red record button at the bottom of the screen and begin speaking.
When you are finished press the record button again.
To hear what you have recorded press the rewind button and then the play button.
You can add music to your podcast from your itunes library with the jingles track in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Click Jingles and then Media Browser should pop up, choose your song , drag it to the desired location on the track and drop it on the jingle track line.
To split and join tracks watching the following video from ehow.com.
You can also add photos by clicking on the Pod Cast Track and then selecting media browser and art work.
Drag and Drop the photo in the art work box.
Finally you are ready to share your podcast. Go to the share button on the top tool bar and choose which format you would like to share it in.

Follow the link below to access our blog and podcast site: http://jamiemeredith.podbean.com/

We choose to post our podcasts on podbean.com because it was simple and free. You can create links to other sites, provide directions and comments, as well as create a blog.

Instructions from FAQ PodBean page

How to move my podcast to Podbean ?

Posted by faq on 26th March 2009

You can follow the steps hereafter to move your podcast to Podbean:
Step 1. Select a Podbean plan that fit for you need and sign up a Podbean account.
Step 2. Import your current podcast posts into your Podbean account. See our FAQ about how to import at here.
Step 3. Upload your audios and videos into your Podbean account and edit the imported poststo link to the respective audios and videos.
Step 4. Make announcement in your current podcast site and new episodes about your podcast migration. If possible, keep this announcement for a month so, this probably will get most of current active users informed. Please notice that your new Podbean podcast feed url is http://yourusername.podbean.com/feed/ .
Step 5. If your current podcast hosting service support "new feed" tag and 302 http redirection. Please check our FAQ about how to move feed in iTunes at here.

Our podcast is based on science so we developed an instructional page to guide a guess who game on women scientists. There is an embeded link to a google doc form which will record student answers in a spreadsheet. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/sciencepodcast

Here is a great googles docs tutorial on forms from YouTube.

We also found a website we liked on women scientists in history.

Photo from women-scientists-in-history.com

Using podcasts for science content is a great way to engage students as well as allow students to be more autonomous. Students are able to research their topics of interest and share the knowledge with the class and even the rest of the world through podcasting. Teachers can give instructions and convey information to the individual with less distractions. Podcasts are indeed an amazing technological advancement.

Other ways podcasts can also be used for science:

1. Video taping experiments that are too dangerous to do in class

2. Posting student blogs on science

3. Doing in class experiments and then posting results

4. Watching other podcasts on science

The possiblities are limitless.

Here are some sites to check out for other examples of podcasts and lesson ideas:

http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/rss/DragonFlyTV_rss.xml

PBS visual and audio podcast with kids investigating science.

http://whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com/

Blog about Dr. B's podcasts and links to cool science websites.

http://youthscienceforum.ca/view.php?id=17