Podcasting and the Elementary Classroom
Celebrating Educational Technology Conference
Lance Martin
APU - Murrieta
2007

What is a Podcast? Quick overview

Podcast
• According to Wikipedia:
• A podcast is a media file
that is distributed by
subscription (paid or unpaid)
over the Internet using
syndication feeds, for
playback on mobile devices
and personal computers.
• The host or author of a
podcast is often called a
podcaster.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Why Use Podcasting in the Classroom.

Podcasting is CHEAP! Reason #1

What You Need to
Get Started
• Microphone - Many newer
computers have built in
microphones. If not, they can
be purchased at Radio Shack,
Wal-Mart, etc.
• Software - Audacity (http://
audacity.sourceforge.net) is a
powerful, cross-platform and
open-source audio editing
software program ideally suited
for classroom podcasting.

Hosting/
Feed Burning
• Blogs - www.edublogs.org
• CCPublisher is a free program
(windows/mac) that will publish
podcasts audio files to the
Internet Archive (http://
archive.org) for free using a
desired Creative Commons
license.
• Feedburner.com will help create
and produce a feed readable
for your subscribers. It will also
give you statistics on your
podcasts.

Global Audiences Reason #2

Motivates students! Effort increases because people
are listening.

No Frills Communication
Reason #3

Reason #4
Window into your classroom.

Podcasting is Fun! Reason #5

Examples
• Educational Podcast Network -
http://epnweb.org/
• Interactive Storytelling - Long
Elementary
• CallieCasts - Callie Kirkpatrick
Elementary
• iTunes - Podcast directory
under education
• Google Search Elementary
Podcasts - over 1.9 million
results.
• ColeyCasts - Tovashal
Elementary

Questions?