Honestly, the best way to learn how to create a podcast is to jump into the sandbox and get your hand dirty. Today, we will explore GarageBand and some of what it can do. By "messing around" with the tool, you can stumble across many of its features. For a more detailed overview, here are a few resources from Apple related to Podcasting worth exploring. Apple Learning Interchange http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ Podcasting In Education http://www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/podcasting.html Apple Distinguished Educators Podcasts http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=11850 You might also consider listening to a number of podcasts such as some of those listed on the podcasting page of this site. While listening think about the positives and negatives of each. Try to determine, how each of the effects were created. As a group or with your students, create criteria for what makes a good podcast. For some suggestions of rubrics others have created, check out these resources. Kathy Schrock's "What Makes a Good Podcast?" http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/evalpodcast.html Podcast Rubrichttp://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/podcastrubric.htmlThe Higher Education Podcast Repositoryhttp://ed-cast.org/rubric.aspx
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