Week+5

=Welcome to Week 5 All!!=

===Okay, great stuff this week so far, but we really need to nail down our team activity and facilitation plan. We have some things tentatively listed, but they need to be finalized and submitted by Monday. So, that means we need to know what we will have our classmates do, our roles during the activity, the intended outcomes, the additional discussion questions, and the facilitation strategies. Everything is listed below, so take a look at what we have and add to, agree with, or comment on it. Let's get something solid by tomorrow (Sunday) so that Matthew's job of reporting is simple. Also, take a look at the template that Donna offered us to use when submitting the plan. Thanks! (Tom)===

Here is a link for a podcasting rubric we may want to include, and also I came across a few more resources to throw in the pot- we can decide if they are helpful or not: **http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/podcastrubric.html**

Ok- one more resource and then I promise to stop! (wendy) http://www.podcastalley.com/

Podcasting Tutorials_
 * 1) **// iTunes Tutorial //****// - //** iTunes is the free software used by much of the world to subscribe to podcasts. Even if you don't have an iPod, you will want to use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts so that every new podcast in a series is automatically downloaded to your computer, indexed and ready for you to play.
 * 2) **// Audacity Tutorial - //** [[|**Version 1.2**]] [[|**Version 1.3 beta**] - works with Windows 7] Audacity is one of the best free software programs available for recording and editing audio. This tutorial will guide you through recording // and editing // your podcasts! Audacity is the software that many professional podcasters use to produce quality podcasts.
 * 3) **// [|Dropbox Tutorial] //**** - ** Dropbox.com provides 2 gigabytes of online storage "in the cloud" for free. The Dropbox.com website is a great place to store the mp3 audio files for your podcasts.
 * 4) **// Podcasting Tutorial //**** - ** In order to make your podcast recorded with Audacity available to everyone, you will need to post the audio online, create an RSS feed, and post a description. A great way to do this is to use one of the free audio hosting sites and to use a blogging program such as Blogger.com. This tutorial will step you through the process of putting a podcast online and making it available to the world.
 * 5) **//Blogger Tutorial//** - Blogger.com provides FREE software to create blog postings, and Blogspot.com provides FREE hosting for your blog. Both of these companies are owned by Google, and you need to have a FREE account with Google to create your login at Blogger.com. This tutorial will help you create your own free blog (and a blog is a great way to distribute podcasts).
 * 6) ** [|//MP3 Skype Recorder//] ** - Free software that lets you record a Skype conversation in mp3 format. Great for adding interviews to podcasts.
 * 7) **//Slidecasting Tutorial//** - "Slidecasting" combines a PowerPoint presentation and an audio track (in mp3 format) to create a self-running narrated presentation - much like one can do with Impatica or Breeze. Except that it is completely free! This tutorial will get you started slidecasting using the free tools at the Slideshare.net website.

(wendy)


 * So, looking ahead, we have a busy week, but I think that we can handle it. Let's follow Donna's advice here, though, and really focus in on this group project (assignment sheet linked here). I have outlined objectives that we need to accomplish below. Here's to a good week! (Tom)
 * Awesome, Tom! (wendy)
 * Tom, this layout looks great! This is easy to follow and makes the project clearer for the rest of us. I really think, as Wendy mentioned before, that we need to gain some more background knowledge on this topic. I heard that podcasts are actually easy to do once you get the hang of it. (marnelyn)


 * I just recorded this. It is my second (first really) podcast ever; it is on how to make a podcast using podomatic.com. Give a listen and share your thoughts on whether we can use this for our presentation or not. (Tom)
 * Tom I just listened to your podcast and I love it! So very cool! With your easy step-by-step instructions I think any teacher can use this with or for a class of students... and by-the-way, you have a very nice voice! (wendy)
 * Hey, thanks. Maybe I will switch professions and go into radio or voice-overs. (Tom)
 * media type="file" key="Podcast on Podcasting.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * Great job with the podcast Tom. I am going to play with the podomatic website when I get home this evening. My access to many websites are really limited by the school system's computer. (Matthew)
 * Tom, you got us all excited! Your explanation was very clear. The podomatic website was also easy to follow. I wanted to share an excerpt of a great book that I read in the past about podcasting. This is the first one I've ever done. [|Podcasting](marnelyn)
 * I came across the following Podcast Studio 1.4 and Podcast Wizard 1. while looking through what Skype has to offer:
 * []
 * Not sure if this is similar to podomatic, easier, trickier, etc., as I am giving them all a try shortly. (wendy)


 * Hey Wendy and Marnelyn, I am not sure what happened to your posts from yesterday (Tuesday night). I was just checking my email and saw that you both had added stuff in here; but when I logged in yesterday, it wasn't displayed. I don't know what happened; I may have inadvertently erased your work. I tried to fix it, and I think that I added everything in that you both wrote. But if I missed something, I apologize. (Tom)
 * No biggie- I have been so immersed in this stuff, every days' postings seem to run together! (Wendy)
 * Tom, don't worry. You didn't delete anything. (marnelyn)


 * I came across a nice ppt we may want to consider: (wendy)
 * [[file:podcasting-what-when-why-where-how-1204624994589384-2.pdf]]
 * I only breezed through the ppt, but it definitely looks like something that we could share with the class. Great find, Wendy! (Tom)
 * I read the article on podcasting, and I think it would be a great resource to include in our presentation. Some of the content is filler, but there is a lot of information that would be benefical for our actvity. (Matthew)


 * Tom- I just followed your steps and tried out a little podcast- I am hooked! Question for you- where did you find the little podcast bar. I am having trouble figuring out how to post my podcast to our wiki. (wendy)
 * []
 * Wendy, I don't think that you can embed your podcast into our wiki. I recorded my podcast on my hard-drive using Audacity, so I was able to just upload the file; it's not an embed. I think that all you can do with online hosted podcast (like Podomatic) is link to it from here - like you did. That, of course, changes for other kinds of website like blogs that have the ability to embed web-hosted files. (Tom)
 * Oh, that makes sense. I downloaded Audacity, so I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks! (wendy)

**Objectives for this week**

>>>> I think these are great questions to begin the discussion. We may need some to moderate, or to response to the questions we present. So, someone may need to response to the questions from T-Fr, and someone else from Fr-Mon. (Matthew) >>>> We may also need some additional questions for the class for the second half of the week from Fr-Mon. (Matthew) >>>> Our following up questions, may focus on how students view of podcasting has changed after watching the videos we select, or reading the other students views and experiences with podcasting. (Matthew) >>> [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrBbczS9I0](ola) >>> >>> ** Password: 495c5b9 ** >>> ** Service Plan: Podbean basic - Free **** Click following link to login ** >>> ** https://www.podbean.com/login **** I had create the podcast website .. (Ola) **
 * **By Thursday:** I think one thing that we all need is more knowledge on classroom effectiveness and potential uses of podcasting. I am recycling some links below that I also posted on last week's page. I will read #s 1 and 3; Wendy is reading #s 4 and 5. I think that everyone should read at least one. Let's also post briefs and highlights about each for our collective gain.
 * 1) Talk the Talk: Learner-Generated Podcasts as Catalysts for Knowledge Creation
 * Interesting article - basically, this details a study that asked students finish a course to create short weekly podcasts on the content of the course for the students in the following cohort. So, the podcasts were student generated here. The research found that students participated in knowledge creation by developing and refining course content-ideas as well as engaging in "epistemic agency" where students established content-identities, encountered opposing identities, and collaborated on knowledge or content progression. **One interesting result** was that the researchers found the actual recording process of the podcast extended the knowledge-building process beyond other types of verbal (e.g. essays or reports) or visual (e.g. Powerpoint or concept map) collaborative presentations because of the dynamic and dialogic manner of the recording activity (i.e. - there are benefits to creating podcasts that exceed other types of collaborative projects because of the dialogue during the live recording). (Tom)
 * 1) Student use of and perspectives regarding podcasted lectures: Survey pilot (Matthew) (Ola)
 * The article is a research paper that focuses on the history of podcasting. The article is not very informative, and I do not think it will help us for this activity.
 * This article is survey for student to show ( does the student like to use podcasing and improve them instead their classroom notices . The survey explain how the student by percentage. More information. The students was using podcasting for take Take/revise notes 50.0%, Find information 34.6%, Prepare for class 3.8, Review after class 3.8%, Make up absence 73.1%, Review for test 38.5%. form their survey, the podcasting is helpful not for review the class but also for homework and test.(Ola)
 * 1) Podcasting and the Long Tail
 * Not a very good article here; doesn't give much information. (Tom)
 * I aggre with you Tom, it speak about RSS and Podcasting and easy to use RSS to receive Podcasting. (Ola)
 * 1) Use of audio podcast in K-12 and higher education: a review of research topics and methodologies
 * This article focused on how the majority of teachers and educators are using podcasting in teaching and learning through distribution of lectures and supplimental materials. Students using podcasts in this fashion have the benefit of listening to lectures whenever and wherever, yet the majority still use desktops. Surprizingly, not as many educators as one might expect were using podcasts developed by and for students. The article touched on a few technical limitations of podcasting and briefly discussed what was required in producing. (wendy)
 * 1) History To Go: Why I Teach with IPods
 * This article set a positive tone describing how podcast assist in creating a community of learners, promote more active engagement with course materials, and how the use and creation of student podcasting helps with research skills. The emphasis on building necessary technical knowledge and training was stressed, as students work together toward a common goal. (wendy)
 * 1) Build a Better Podcast I will read this article (marnelyn) (Matthew)
 * This is a good article that focuses on the benefits of podcasting for educators. It, also, discusses some of the technical issues involved such as, the voice quality in a podcast, and the editing process in a podcast presentation. The article is short and compact, and we may want to include it in the resource section of our project. However, I did have a little trouble accessing the article so we may need to find a way to embed the article into our presentation a little more cleanly. (Matthew)
 * I could not access this article. Thanks, Matthew for sharing the summary. (Marnelyn)
 * 1) Audio and video podcasts of lectures for campus-based students: production and evaluation of student use (Matthew)
 * I could not access this link. I will try again later in the day to find the article. (Matthew)
 * 1) Simplifying Podcasting
 * General overview of podcasting and learning theory that can be applied to podcasting. Talks about uses in both classrooms and professional organizations. Discusses anxieties and offers some answers to those anxieties. Also offers some general guidelines to consider when making podcasts. Overall, this is a pretty good introductory article on podcasting. (Tom)
 * **By Saturday**, we need to nail down an activity.
 * Perhaps, we could provide a step-by-step set of directions for creating a podcast and an article detailing the benefits of podcasting (or something similar). We could then ask them to discuss the benefits and potential uses and have groups create a podcast discussing an activity they would use to accentuate a particular benefit of podcasting. Thoughts? (Tom)
 * What do we want to give them? (Tom)
 * the powerpoint Wendy found?
 * an article? perhaps "History to Go," "Build a Better Podcast," or "Simplifying Podcasts"?
 * my podcast on how to use Podomatic? Wendy's podcast on why to use podcasts? Marnelyn's reading of Will Richardson?
 * I like the article History of a Podcast, Simplifying Podcasting, and Building a Better Podcast (Matthew)
 * What do we want them to do after viewing the given materials? (Tom)
 * create a podcast? //I was thinking this could be an optional activity, but then maybe people would skip it- maybe the group podcast would work- we are doing a pretty good job on our wiki, so maybe the other groups would too. (wendy)//
 * on what? //I would say on a topic that could be used with students- integrating the podcast into a lesson or presentation. (wendy)//
 * in groups? or individually? (we may have to consider access to microphones here - I bet at least one person in each team would have one but maybe not everybody in class will)
 * I was viewing the Voice Thread assignment and many students are having diffcultly with microphones already (Matthew)
 * discussion questions?
 * detail your experience with creating a podcast?
 * what did you find most interesting about podcasting? //Or perhaps what do you see is the value of podcasting in education? (wendy)//
 * how do you see yourself using podcasts in your classes? //Or perhaps where is the best place to use podcasting in your teaching? (wendy)//
 * **it is step by step to create Podcasting**
 * [] (ola)
 * I think this Youtube video offers a good but brief tutorial on creating and hosting podcasts. (Tom)
 * Benefit of Poadcasting
 * benefit for podcasting in class room [] (ola)
 * **By Saturday**, we also need to solidify the following items for the facilitation plan. I have listed some of what we have tentatively identified.
 * Intended Outcomes
 * how to create a podcast - an About.com and a Youtube video links are here; also sources to create one - Podbean, Podmatic, iTunes (Do we want our classmates to create a Podcast? Or, to get instructions on how Podcast are created?) (Matthew)
 * why/how podcasting is beneficial in the classroom and perhaps why podcasting over other media types
 * what ways to use podcasts
 * student created
 * teacher created
 * thumbs up to these outcomes (wendy) great outcomes Wendy, but they may need some tweaking, based on the teacher's recommendations (Matthew)
 * Team Roles (defined for discussion activity week): what should each role do?
 * facilitator - starts the conversation with discussion question
 * coach - keeps energy going, adds to/responds to our classmates' discussion threads
 * resource manager - uploads and links the multimedia needed
 * reporter - scripts the activity directions/summarizes discussions
 * wild card - focuses on the discussion with coach
 * everyone really should help build the conversation that we create
 * what do you all think of these rolls? (Tom) good, Also we need one t be leader for the team(Ola)
 * Additional Discussion Questions: what do we want team members to think about after we have initially presented and begun discussion?
 * a few possible follow up extensions we could pose might be, "Do you see the use of podcasts an emerging trend?" "What influences do you see on student learning if students are designing and producing their own podcasts?" (wendy)
 * I like these questions. Maybe we could alter the first a little to read, "Do you see the use of podcasts as an emerging trend? a lasting trend? or only a fad?" (Tom)
 * Tom and Wendy I like both of these questions. They certainly tie in with the lesson we are attempting to create (Matthew)
 * WE need to clear the project steps (Ola)
 * ** Username: teambemore **
 * Ola, I really like your idea. If we can get the email address for the students in our class, we can have invite them to our team website to respond to the follow-up questions on Friday-Monday of our presentation. (Matthew)
 * Two Facilitation Strategies
 * I am a little uncertain here as well. I think a reading and/or multimedia presentation followed by a team-oriented activity would be good. Any ideas or thoughts here?
 * Tom - I am looking for a good multimedia presentation- will check back asap on this! (wendy)
 * I like the multimedia presentation for team oriented activity will be and explain step by step. (Ola)
 * **By Monday**, we need to turn in the __activity directions__ and __facilitation plan__
 * __Matthew- thankyou for putting everything together for us- wonderful job! (wendy)__