Enhancing Audio Podcasts for Online and Mobile Learning

Enhancing Audio Podcasts for Online and Mobile Learning Joe Fahs Elmira College SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies May 2009

Supporting Documents  Go to http://mpondu.blogspot.com  Chapter (Enhanced) podcast of this presentation! iTunes for Windows or Mac is required  QuickTime movie of this presentation  Play the Chapter podcast or QuickTime movie on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod with Video, or iPod Classic.  Slideshare presentation with presenter notes  Link to related web sites: http://delicious.com/sunycit09/enhancingau

Audio podcasts  Audio content on the web that you subscribe to, which is delivered to your computer.  Example: American Heart Association

Audiobooks and Chapter Podcasts  Audiobooks: with or without full-text  Chapter Podcasts: images timed with audio, chapter markers, and built-in links to web sites

Audiobook Basics  Collection of spoken-text files  Human recordable or computer synthesized  Format is usually MP3  Artwork for a unique audiobook cover

Reading and Listening Enrichment  Organize chapters or lectures for easy retrieval  Playback position can be remembered for each chapter  Control playback speed on iPods and iPhones  Add full text for multimodal learning.

Delivering Audiobooks to Students Resources Delivery  Loudlit.org  Download from ANGEL  Librivox.org or a web site as a Zip  Spokenword.org archive.  Gutenberg.org  Unzip, and add to  Audio CD’s iTunes  Subscribe as podcasts  Recorded but … lectures

Voice Import Settings  Choose Preferences > General > Import Settings.  Choose MP3 Encoder, Stereo Bit Rate = 96 kbps, Sample Rate = 44.100 kHz, and Channels = mono.  20 MB per hour of voice recording  Possible to reduce even more

Importing Audio Files – iTunes 8  Convert into MP3 format (mono, low bandwidth)  Add metadata (e.g. Name, artist, track, …)

Converting to Audiobooks - iTunes 8  Select all related audio files.  Choose File > Get Info and click Yes to edit all at once.  Click the Options tab.  Choose Audiobook, Remember position, and Skip when shuffling. DEMO

Text to Speech Software  Macintosh iSpeak It – http://zapptek.com  Windows: FlameReader http://www.flamereader.com  Online  http://spokentext.net/  http://vozme.com

Adding Text to Podcasts  Comments limited to 256 characters  Lyrics tab – use for adding full text to your audiobook chapters (lectures, etc.) DEMO

How It Works – iPhone/iPod Touch Index 1 5 2 Chapter 3 6 4 DEMO

What Are Chapter Podcasts?  Images displayed in time with audio AND  Chapter markers like a DVD movie  Slides can contain links to external web sites  Playable on iPod Touch and iPhone

Format and Playback • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) format • m4a extension • Playback on iTunes Windows or Mac • Playback on newer iPods and iPhones

Chapter Podcast Examples  CBC Radio: http://tinyurl.com/bd9d9t  Beethoven’s Greatest Hits: http://tinyurl.com/dy4jvp DEMO  Weekend America: http://tinyurl.com/27w7la  Vu d’ici: http://tinyurl.com/cvq7e3  History of Photography: http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/

Creating Chapter Podcasts  Use Profcast: http://profcast.com for Macintosh to record lectures using PowerPoint or Keynote. Windows version in beta.

Garageband  Edit lectures and add links (URL’s) with Garageband for Macintosh.  Send to iTunes

Publishing Chapter Podcasts Create an ANGEL course podcast Publish to a hosted web site Add to iTunesU

ANGEL Course Podcast Add Content Course Syndication Title and Subtitle  Upload media files  Last added = most recent podcast episode

Subscribe to iTunes DEMO  Start iTunes  Click Add to iTunes. 5. Clicks Launch Application 6. Podcast is published to student iTunes Library

Discussion Session  Multimodal Learning  Learning foreign languages  Learning English as a Second Language  Lectures (classroom, presentations, conferences)  Resources for at risk students  Photography slide shows  Audiograms

Windows Video Podcasts  Podcast your PowerPoint slides with Snapkast for Windows.  Creates video podcasts  Does not create Chapter podcasts de vi p4 o m

Abstract SUNY CIT 2009: Enhancing Audio Podcasts for Online &Mobile Learning Where: SUNY Oswego When: Thursday, May 21 4:45 - 5:15 pm Lanigan 103  Course management tools such as ANGEL's Course Syndication or Blackboard's Manage Podcast allow instructors to deliver audio-formatted course materials to their students. Although creating, optimizing, and tagging these audio recordings require planning and preparation, the actual process of creating a course podcast requires just a few basic steps. Students subscribe to the podcasts, typically with iTunes, and organize them in their personal music library for listening on their PC or Mac. Subsequently uploaded episodes (recordings) are automatically delivered to iTunes, even if students are not logged into your course.  Audio podcasts are familiar to most everyone; however, enhancing podcasts with timed images, chapter markers, web site links, and text over audio is less well known. Yet these enhanced podcasts offer promising online, assisted, and mobile learning alternatives that traditional audio podcasts do not easily provide. When formatted for mobile learning on devices such as iPods and iPhones, enhanced podcasts and audiobooks engage students in new, unique, and exciting ways.  Join me in this session as we look at and listen to enhanced podcasts and custom audiobooks, including text-to-speech for assisted learning. Software solutions that create these special materials will be demonstrated including converting PowerPoint presentations into audio-enhanced lectures.

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Converting Podcasts to Audiobooks  Podcasts can not be converted to Audiobooks using iTunes Media Kind option.

Converting Podcasts to Audiobooks  Select all podcast episodes (chapters, lectures) and choose Create MP3 version. Select the converted files– now located in the Music Library –apply recommended settings (e.g. Media Kind = Audiobooks).

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