Audio Recordings/Podcasts
Description: Audio recordings/Podcasts can be downloaded and listened to at the students' convenience.
Best Practices:
- Single podcasts no longer than 30 minutes
- Lengthy topics to be broken into sub-points and recorded separately
- Determine key points; deliver them succinctly and concisely
- For lecture content intended for reuse, avoid references to current events, dates, page numbers, the weather, etc.
Examples of use:
- Course lecture content
- Weekly communication
- Summaries of forums, assignments, blog posts, wikis, etc.
Programs:
Audacity (free download)
LAME MP3 encoder Instructions (needed to export audio as mp3)
- Audacity Tutorial
How to do it yourself:
Step One
- Write an outline or script
- Check your microphone for sound quality (external microphones may be borrowed from the BU Library)
- Record yourself
- Save your file as an .mp3 or .mp4
Step Two
Choose Your Deployment Method - place in course (short, specific audio pieces [weekly communications]) or place in iTunes U (longer, stable audio pieces [lectures])
- If uploading into your Moodle course, treat the file as any other document you are uploading and linking to (turn editing on > add a resource > link to file or website)
- If using iTunes U - request space on iTunes U by completing the online Media Production and Deployment Form
- Upload your audio file to Bethel iTunes U.