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What Is Podcast?

The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the words "iPod" and "broadcast". Podcasting is basically the creation and distribution of amateur radio, plain and simple. In addition, Podcasting makes it easier to get a lot of people to listen to it through the use of RSS feeds.
Just like it allows people to subscribe to your blog, RSS allows people to subscribe to your podcast. Just like new blog content shows up in your aggregator whenever it’s posted, new podcasts show up in your MP3 player (eg. iTune) whenever they are created.

Watch the about podcasts video.
(Reference: Making a Podcast)

Podcast Lab

(1) Make a Sound File

• Ÿ Download Audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
• Ÿ Record sound
• Ÿ Download Lame at http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
• Ÿ Use Audacity and Lame to convert the sound file to mp3 file
• For details, please refer to Podcasting in your classroom.

(2) Put Your File onto a Sever

(Put Your File to AFS Space or Google Page Space)

• Ÿ Go to your FTP space: ftp://afs.msu.edu/ (By using Internet Explorer) OR Go to your google space
• Ÿ Put your sound file into a new folder in your “web” folder OR Upload your sound file to Google space or a folder in Google space
• Ÿ The address for the file is: www.msu.edu/~username/podcasts/filename.mp3
  OR http://username.googlepages.com/foldername/filename.mp3

(3) Create a Link to the File on Your Blog

(4) Burn Your Feed with Feed Burner

• Ÿ Go to http://www.feedburner.com and get registered
• Ÿ Type in your blog address and burn your feed
• Ÿ Choose “RSS”
• Ÿ Change feed title and feed address
• Ÿ The feed address is created

• Skip directly to feed management
• Click "Publicize"
• Click "Chicklet Chooser"
• Click "Subscribe in a reader", scroll down, select Use as a widget in "blog", and click "Go".
• Login your blog
• At "import page elements" page: choose the right blog, and type in a title, and click "Add Widget"
• Change "Subscribe in a reader" to "Subscribe to Podcasts"

(5) Subscribe to Your Podcast Feed

• Ÿ Download iTune at www.apple.com . (Just google: iTune, download)

If there is an orange subscribing button

• Click on the button
• Click "Add to iTune"
• The feed is now monitored

If you only have feed address

• Click on the “Advanced” menu, and choose “Subscribe to Podcast”
• Ÿ Type in your feed address and let iTune download the file.
• Ÿ Play it!
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Educational Implication of Podcasting

• 7 things You should know about podcasting
• Educational Podcasting

Ditigal Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

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What is digital storytelling?

Educational Uses of Digital storytelling.
educational-uses-of-DS.ppt

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Examples and Discussions

Explore examples of digital storytelling at Educational Use of Digital Storytelling
Other examples:

• Federal Holidays
• MathCasts Project
• Great Books Stories Wiki
• SFETT's ICAN

Discuss in groups

• How do people use digital storytelling in education?
• Identify one example of digital storytelling that you like most, and explain why you like it.
• How are you going to use digital storytelling in your teaching

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Tools

• VoiceThread
• Powerpoint
  Add narration to your powerpoint presentation
• MS Photo Story
  A Microsoft application that can be used to create slideshow movies from still pictures. You can add music, transitions and basic effects to your slideshows.
• Windows Movie Maker
• iMovie
• iPhoto

Voice Thread

VoiceThread has several nice tutorials about their product that are worth exploring. At the very least, please look over the following:

1. Introduction on VoiceThread.
2. How to manage identities.
3. How to moderate comments.
4. How to use zoom in VT.
5. Here is one about the doodler feature.
6. This will show you how you can embed a VT in your blog or website.

Weekly Gallery Project

1. Open a VT account and upload an image for your avatar. The identities tutorial will show you how to do this. If you want, you can upload a picture of yourself to clearly identify yourself. You can also have one identity where the picture is not of you or someone else (be creative) and use a name other than your own. You can use this identity when you want to leave comments that are more anonymous, and it is also what I would recommend if I were having students use it.
2. Choose one of the following options for creating a digital story this week.
   1. Create a digital story that you, as the teacher, would use to share with students as part of a lesson or unit.
   2. Create a mock digital story that provides an example of something your students might construct as part of a lesson or unit in a course you teach.
3. When making your digital story, please make sure that you:
   1. Have at least five slides to it.
   2. Have at least one comment on each slide.
   3. Have at least two different voices (identities) on it - you could enlist the help of friends, colleagues, or you could use the two identities you've set up.

Weekly Blog Assignment

1. Embed your VoiceThread in your blog post for Week 7. Here is a VT on how to do this. I recommend using the 480X360 version they have for blogs. When you get the code, you will need to paste it into your blog post when you are using the "Edit HTML" tab rather than the "Compose" Tab.
2. In your text, please write about
   1. Which option you chose for your digital story and what your experience was like in creating the story.
   2. Devote a paragraph to explore some of the different ways teachers could use digital story telling in the courses.
   3. Please link the permalink to this post on the Wiki Gallery under the "Story" Column.

Here is a checklist for this week. Please complete the Week 7 tasks by Sunday evening, Feb 24.

Digital Images

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Creative Commons

(1) The issue of Copy Right

(2) Creative Commons

A. What is Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Check out the following movies and comics

1. Wanna Work Together
2. Get Creative
3. Sharing Creative Works
4. How it Works

B. Types of License (can be used in combinations)


C. Search CC licensed work

• Creative Commons Search
• FlickrCC

D. Give credit to others' work


Photo Attribution:
Original image: "Erickson Hall"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/521366682_a6d488c52e_m.jpg
by: Joe Freidhoff
Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>

E. License your own work

• Add a Creative Commons license to your website/blog
• Add a Creative Commons license to your Flickr photos
• Posting your licensed images at Flickr

Discussion

Look at the example on how a teacher is using digital images in her classroom.
(You will also find this specific example: Jane Goodall's Camp and the Classroom Displays Blog from the above link.)
Discuss the following two questions:

• How does the teacher use digital images? What are your reactions (good use? bad use?)?
• What are other possible ways of using digital images in your classroom?
• What are some of the concerns of using digital images in the classroom?

Lab Section

1. Get Familiar with Creative Commons

• Find a CC image using __FlickrCC__ or CC Search and add it properly to a post on your blog. Here is a jing video to show you how to do this.
  
• Add a Creative Commons license to your blog

2. Store, Publish and Share Pictures

(1) Create an account at Flickr. Consider this a professional account that you will use to host images for your blog/website. In the future, it might even have images of students' work that you could share with parents.

(2) Try these things in Flickr

• Upload some of your photos
• Tag the photos
• Change the publicity of the photos
• Add notes to your photos;
• Add your photos to Sets;
• Comment and Add notes to others’ photos
• Add a creative Commons license to your Flickr photos

3. Having Fun with Your Pictures

(1) Editing Images

• Desktop Photo Editor: Gimp is a free Windows based software that allows you to do many of the same things as Photoshop
• Online Photo Editor: Fauxto has many of the features of Photoshop and is quite extensive for a free online editor.

(2) Create Effects

• dumpr - fun with your photos

(3) Create Slideshows

• Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing
• Animoto - is an easy way to create a short (30 seconds or less) slideshow with great effects and animations.
• You need at least ten pictures to make it work! (an example:slideshow)

(4) Some examples of Using Images

• Flickr Badge (HTML) - Flickr images only
• Flickr Flash Badge - Flickr images only
• Flickriver - Flickr images only
• PicasaWeb slideshow - PicasaWeb images only
• Slideoo - Flickr only
• Slide - Flickr, Photobucket and image urls

Assignments

Weekly Gallery Project
Create a page in your portfolio that utilizes the badges or slideshow tools. This page could be a revision of a page you have already created or it could be a page you haven't completed yet. Aim to have at least five images in your badge or slideshow. Link this page of your portfolio to the Wiki Gallery under the "Photos" column.

Blog post
Imagine you are at your field placement this week and a student asks you for help. She wants to find an image that she can use in a presentation she's creating. Generally, she has two questions. First, where do I go to find images to use? Second, what do I need to do to be sure I've given the creator of the image proper credit?
In this post,

• Write about what you would have suggested to the student in the scenario BEFORE this week's lesson. (Where would you have had her look for images and what would you have told her to do to cite the image source?)
• Based on what you've learned this week, what would you recommend to her now?

Here is a checklist for the week.

For next week, we will be getting into VoiceThread. VoiceThread offers a free general account that you can use, but there are a few restrictions on how many VTs you can create (and some other things, too). They do however, allow a free upgrade to their Professional account if you are a K-12 educator. Joe wrote to them and asked if pre-service teachers could also qualify for the professional educator accounts. They granted us permission. If you want the educator account, when you sign up for it, you will need to use your msu email addresses and list Joe's email as the school contact (freidhof@msu.edu). I recommend that you take time this week setting up your account so that when we start digital storytelling next week you are all ready to go.

Organizing Internet Resources

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Introducing social bookmarking tools

1. Definition
2. Function
3. The idea of tag


Writings about social bookmarking
(read one of them)

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7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking - EDUCAUSE

* Sites to See: Social Bookmarking - Education World



Discussion

* How is social bookmarking tool different from or similar to RSS feed readers?

* How can social bookmarking be used in professional development and teaching?


Lab Section

Basics
1. Register and Install Extension
2. Add URLs to your del.icio.us

* Add two links from "CEP416Resources"
* Change the name of your bookmarks
* Tag your bookmarks
* Bundle your tags

3. Share Your Bookmarks

* Enable “Private Saving” function
* Add CEP416Resources to your network
* Add Linkroll to your blogs (Optional)


Weekly Gallery Project

Imagine your collaborating teacher asks you to plan a week-long unit of your choice. Though the topic is up to you, she does want to see a few things:

1. You need to identify at least two specific content expectations your unit will meet. Here are links to the K-8 GLCES, and to High School. In your blog post, you will need to tell us the grade level you are planning this unit for.
2. You also need to identify at least two specific technology standards from the METS that you will be working on in this unit.
3. You must supplement the content of the unit with at least five websites that address different aspects of the unit.
4. You need to use a public calendar to communicate with parents and students what you will be doing each of the five days.


Therefore, the agenda for this week is:

1. Read through the GLCEs and the METS linked to above to help you pick a unit topic that you can clearly align with the content expectations.
2. Weekly Gallery Project
1. Set up a social bookmarking account of your choice (del.icio.us, is a popular one, but there are others as well.)
1. Organize at least five websites under a common tag that you can use with your students to help them learn your topic.
2. Set up a public calendar (google has one) in which you briefly outline what you aspects of the unit you will cover for each of the five days.
3. WIKI gallery
1. Please link the permalink of your blog post for this week to the wiki gallery column "bookmark."
2. Please link the public page of your calendar to the wiki gallery's "calendar" column. Here is a jing video to show you how to find the public url.



Assignments

In your blog post for this week:

1. Identify the grade-level you've created this unit for.
2. Identify at least two GLCE's and two METS that this unit addresses.
3. Identify the tag you used to organize your five resources. Please embed a link back to this tag on your del.icio.us account (or whatever you chose). Here is a jing video to show you how to do this.
4. Devote a paragraph to each of your five web resources to let us know how you would use the site to help students learn. For example, you might consider saying, "On Monday, the lesson focuses on part A of the unit. The website URL will be used to help students x..., y... and z. On Tuesday, the topic changes to part B . . . "