Training onPodcasting at MMU

Nillan FakiraE-Learning Content Developer

Learning and Research Technologies (LRT)

Email: N.Fakira@mmu.ac.uk

Ext. 3801LRT Blog Sites: http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/podcast

http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/nillan

What is a Podcast?The basic ingredients : recording of live/pre-recorded lectures, it can be PowerPoint slides, audios, animations and images for users to view on demand and/or download onto different technological devices for later viewing. This can involve a series of episodes that are made available over a time period.

Use of Podcasts for

Pedagogy

• Supplementary to traditional classroom notes• Student created podcast as an assessment

• Revising and Revision• Worked Examples• Assignment Brief• Missed Lectures• Distance Learners

• etc etc.......

Podcast Blogsitehttp://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/podcast

Podcasting@MMU Tutorials(Found in Moodle ‘Staff Resource Area’)

Support

Process

1. Production(Create podcast)

2. Publication(Upload podcast)

3. Delivery(To your Students)

BB FlashBack SoftwarePowerPoint or other S/WRecording Tools (Microphone, webcam)Files and Folders, File Formats.

• How to upload to the podcast server

• Workflows• Tagging

• Outlook - Email• Moodle (VLE)• Weblink

BB FlashBack

Screen Capture

Software

Run Flashback in background to record your screen.

Run your PowerPoint in the foreground and Present as you would normally with microphone close to your mouth for better recording.

Process 1. Production(Create podcast)

Convert your production into a QuickTime file format that your users can playback.

Post - Production

Podcast you created and Saved on your PC/Storage Device.

Upload to Podcast Server

2. Publication(Upload podcast)

PodcastPublication

Upload Podcast onto the podcast server

Choose Workflow

Public - Audio only- Slides-n-Screen- Video only with mp3

MMU Only – Audio only - Slides-n-Screen - Video only with mp3

Viewable by anyone who has access to the podcast server URL

Authenticated Users only – Students and Staff

Podcast serverhttp://podcast.mmu.ac.uk/

Delivery by a Weblink in Moodle http://moodle.mmu.ac.uk

Moodle

3. Delivery(To your Students)

Thank youand

Any Questions?

Start – Program – CeLT Applications – BB FlashBack pro – Flashback recorder