Over the last month I found myself presenting at not one, but two moots. the first was the Australian Moodle Moot in Brisbane, the second was the New Zealand Moodle Moot in Napier.
At both Moots I found myself presenting on how I use the “Podcast” Module at Riverview to deploy podcasts (and Vodcasts) to our students. The trial last term was such a success that I now struggle to keep up with the needs of staff.
I have created a video of this presentation and also attached to it a demo of how the module operates to give you all a taste of how this could possibly work for you within your own educational institution.
After both Moots interest from participants on podcasting within Moodle was so high that it was decided a new Podcasting forum would be set up on Moodle.org to allow educators and administrators to talk more about this online.
When thinking of the Podcasting path I urge teachers and decision makers within Institutions to also think about the implications of licensing. A Podcast by design publishes into the public domain. I recommend looking into Creative Commons licensing alternatives. There are different flavors that allow you to assign the version that best suits your need. They have also now designed a variant aimed directly at the education market called ccLearn
Additional Links
- Download the Podcast Module
- Download the iPodcast Module
- New Podcast Discussion forum on Moodle.org
- Link to Creative Commons Licensing info for education
Thanks Julian for another great plugin. Apple’s iWeb is pretty easy to to publish a podcast, but this plugin makes it even easier!
Thank you again for another link to a great plugin. I have put it in to our moodle site and am happily spreading the word. It seems that without teachers finding these things and reviewing them that the tech’s don’t get the point of them.
Moodleman,
I was asked by one of our teachers (who teaches German) if there is a podcasting module where students can make a cast (as an activity) and submit this to their teacher? In all the discriptions of podcasting that I read it seems that the stream is one way only – from the teachers to the students….
Is there such a module? Or is there a way to adapt an existing module?
sadly no such module exists Jaap. But you could use either an upload file assignment or a database activity to facilitate the student contribution side of tings
Darn! I thought this was the solution we were looking for, but thanks to Jaap van den Bent’s quesion, I realized it’s not going to work. We wanted podcasting capabilities for the students to share with the class. Are there plans to allow student podcasting in the future?
Thanks!
Connie
Thanks for the video
Any ideas why the control tags for Quicktime have disappeared? I have tried reinstalling!
Just a question within your Podcasts course that you created did you then create sub categories for each subject or just use topics?
Researching the effects of podcasting on the student academic achievements for the state released tests. Does the student retain material that is re-presented prior to a state given test? Another words, if the student is learning a new theory or concept. also, are there any case studies. I need journal entries and case studies to back up this idea for my research.
Hey Julian,
Is it correct to say that you need to have guest access enabled on the Moodle site, and guest access enabled for the course, for these tools to work?
Cheers,
Mark.