A Classroom Podcasting Algorithm
Well, I’m now using to iLife ‘06 and it has become an absolute staple in my classroom. Not really for my students mind you, but for me. GarageBand is now a part of every class period as I record lectures and produce enhanced podcasts. It gives me the ability to walk in with my PowerBook, a wireless microphone, and a Keynote presentation and do a class-based podcast. When class is over, I take about 30 minutes to export my slides from Keynote into iPhoto, they show up in GarageBand, and I can drag them to the timeline. I mix it down and push it to iTunes … I could be using iWeb to publish them, but I am not ready to jump off the WordPress bandwagon just yet. At the end of the day the students click a single link from my class blog and iTunes auto-launches and a subscription is set.
Let’s just add numbered bullets here to what Cole Camplese says in his ADC Exchange Blog above:
- Walk in with Powerbook. a wireless microphone, a Keynote presentation.
- Do a class-based podcast.
- When class is over, take about 30 minutes to export sldies from Keynote into iPhoto.
- They show up in GarageBand, and I can drag them to the timeline.
- I mix it down and push it to iTunes
- At the end of the day the students click a single link from my class blog and iTunes auto-launches and a subscription is set.
How long does it take to get to the point in one’s tech learning curve? I am asking this question because my next big push is to help my English department faculty accelerate their tech learning capacity. For a newbie, the six steps above might become forty if broken down by rigorous task analysis. That is exactly what I am going to have to do. I am going to have to de-automatize many of my own skills. Teaching is empathy isn’t it? It is the mark of a great teacher. My hope is that I can do this in my lifetime by just being “good enough”.
tellio :: Dec.17.2006 :: Podcast, Useful Tools and Processes :: 1 Comment »
It will take around 25 hours of hands-on practice before you reach the level of “good enough.”
I wonder, though, how long a class-based podcast will run. I usually keep my podcast episodes to under 7 minutes. If it’s longer than that, I shift to written notes.
Manuel