This document discusses how webcasting and podcasting can be used to support student learning through universal design for learning (UDL). It provides examples of how audio and video content created by teachers and students can be used to engage students and meet education standards. Recommendations are made for free or low-cost tools and online resources that can be used to create and share this multimedia content.

1. Fran Darling, Marquette Area Public Schools –GIS & BMS 2006 -08 http://teachers.mapsnet.org/WebcastingforUDLMACUL2008/

2. Are your students frustrated – testing, reading, assignments!!! This is nothing new, it’s been an issue for hundreds of years….

3. A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. …essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcasting Students or teachers use or create audio and/or video posted to the web for learning support and enhancement . Multiple representations of the same content in alternate formats

4. All ISTE and State Technology Standards are met: Standard 1 Basic Operations and Concepts; Standard 2 Social Ethical, and Human Issues; Standard 3 Technology Productivity Tools; Standard 4 Technology Communication Tools; Standard 5 Technology Research Tools; Standard 6 Technology Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Tools These activities meet the general K-12 ELA standards of Meaning and Communication (Standards 1 – 4), Voice (Content Standard 6) , Skills and Processes (Content Standard 7), Depth of Understanding (Content Standard 9), and Critical Standards (Content Standard 12) AND MDOE Universal Education policy

5. Studies of Visual Perception give some insight into how the brain sorts and recognizes information…. http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/ig.html

6. Brain regions are stimulated using and creating in other modalities which use higher order thinking skills -- Article by Doug Johnson for Education World: Are 21st Century Skills Right Brain Skills?

7. UDL -Three Distributed Systems: 2. Strategic – The HOW of Learning Recognition – The WHAT of Learning 3. Affective – The WHY of Learning

8. Provides multiple means of instructional content…Universal Design… Universal Access – students can interact with content -- multiple means of engagement Provides multiple means of assessment -show knowledge in many formats

9. Free Video Options: Instruct & Engage & Learn -research Next Vista for Learning http://www.nextvista.org/ Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu Learn Out Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video iTunes Education - http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html American Memory LOC - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

10. Education & topic keywords: “Michigan History” You Tube www.youtube.com & Teacher Tube www.teachertube.org Zamzar - Convert to download www.Zamzar.com Medieval Helpdesk Import into Movie Maker and Narrate text

12. Short clip segments within videos Embed and create new materials – in PowerPoint & Movie Maker/iMovie Tsunami – video Tsunami – Movie Maker www.unitedstreaming.com

13. Full courses with audio, video, primary source materials and graphics included in courses – High School & College HippoCampus Annenberg Media

14. A project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. Go to: http://www.hippocampus.org/

15. "The Constitution: That Delicate Balance" http://www.learner.org/resources/series72.html is devoted to the nomination, selection, and succession of the president, including the role of political parties and the electoral college. Go to: http://www.learner.org/resources

16. Audio Options– Instruct & Engage Radio Willow Web – script templates & online podcasts www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio Willow Web Script iTunes Podcasts http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html Learn Out Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video EPN Education Podcast Network - http://www.epnweb.org/ Music and more – public media with Creative Commons www.archive.org American Memory LOC - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

17. Bloglines on http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs Radio Willow Web Room 3 War News Radio Princeton Vocab Review Minute Princeton Vocab Review Minute Learn Out Loud - biography of Leo Tolstoy’s boyhood Writer’s Almanac –

18. Learn Out Loud > Free Stuff > Podcasts http://www.learnoutloud.com/contents/All-LearnOutLoud.com's-Podcasts/9/21 NPR – podcasts http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Add to your iTunes/Bloglines or other reader or just download Bloglines on http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

19. Voice Thread – online recording and image post Public – free for 50 pages per VoiceThread, http://voicethread.com/share/57401/ Ed Voice Thread – for teachers, classrooms and schools http://ed.voicethread.com/share/73189/

20. Radio Willow Web – How To Scripts… ..\Handouts - How Tos & Online Resources\RadioWillowWeb.pdf Classroom as recording studio – Diane Rich and Julie Myrmel MACUL session, recording schedule & group topics – Friday, 8:30 – 9:30 http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/Podcasting

21. Parent permission to post students’ work and guidelines for posting on the web Storyboards, 3x5 note cards –highlighted, Summarize content, vocabulary/spelling words, team script template Video/record around the school – sound & lighting Train student aides, “on-the-job” or GIS afterschool club

22. Eric Hammerstrom – MACUL grant winner - Presentation earlier today Online at: http://mqtube.org/

23. Teachers plan projects – storyboards, organizers, rubrics Coordination with tech, students & parents Student helpers All students who want to can participate In group/team Record during recess/special Opt not to create video or audio

24. Marble Maze Marble Maze 06 GIS audio study of Motion and Forces Five Themes of Geography http://teachers.mapsnet.org/gisstudents

25. Marble Maze individual podcasts Recorder for Free – simple mp3 voice recorder http://www.download.com/3001-2168_4-10709701.html?idl=n

26. Middle School News GIS Mother’s Day Students work with a script GIS Teacher provides Mother’s Day script BMS Students write news articles to record

27. Mother’s Day poems & messages Download Audacity & LAME Import a background mp3 (you can’t post podcasts with commercial music) -- www.Archive.org -creative commons licensing ( Something Else by James Curran) Modify music track to decrease volume for student recording voice-over Save the template

29. Students open the template and record onto it – Student Aide helped here Save file by Exporting as MP3 Finished Sample – Mother’s Day Teacher & student aide burned finished files to CD – couldn’t post to web with commercial music Can also be loaded on an MP3 player Saved on computer to play

30. Small video/still cameras – DXG (under $100) 1 G Memory Card – under $20 Laptop or computer – Can be on a cart Audacity audio editor & LAME encoder & Audio Recorder - Free Head sets with microphone ($12 – $30) Video Editing Software– Movie Maker or Imovie/ILife Web storage to post files – district storage Digital Voice Recorders - $100 - $150 Copyright-free music – GarageBand or www.archive.org

31. Online at: http://teachers.mapsnet.org/WebcastingforUDLMACUL2008/tabid/228/Default.aspx Login to participate and share: username: MACULuser password: maculudl

33. My Delicious – tab for MACUL http://del.icio.us/fdarling/MACUL