Podcasting at Swinburne
What is Podcasting?
The term is generally considered to be derived from combining the words iPod and broadcasting. Podcasting involves making audio and video files available for download on a routine basis via subscription.
Two important characteristics set podcasting apart from downloading audio and video from a Web site:
- the routine and regular addition of new content
- the ability to automatically receive new content that you select through subscription.
To subscribe to a podcast requires only a single interaction in which the user chooses to have updates downloaded automatically.
Podcasts, like broadcasts, deliver new content regularly.
- Create - create a suitable audio or video file
- Publish - Upload the file to the web
- Subscribe - Users subscribe to your podcast
- Listen/view - Users can listen to the file on a MP3 player or computer
What is Educational Podcasting?
Podcasting can be used in education for the distribution of audio or video files created by academics or students.
Possible examples could be
- Weekly recordings of lectures or topics
- Overviews of the activities for that week
How can I podcast @Swinburne?
Academics at Swinburne have two options if they wish to create a podcast.
Book a Lectopia recording and record your lecture. It will become available as a podcast and you will not be required to do anything else.
Your students can subscribe via the Lectopia links in Blackboard.
or
Record your media on your computer and publish in Blackboard
- For PC users, use the free audio recording software “Audacity”
- For Mac users, use the Apple included software “Garageband”
- How to upload a file to be podcast in Blackboard
- How to enable a Blackboard Podcast
How can my students subscribe to my podcast
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