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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.
  • Audio contributions to assignments or forums by learners.


Programs:

Locations:

 


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, .mp4, or .m4a 
    • Note 1: File type if small enough (<50MB) does not matter as Moodle has embedded converters for audio and Google (any file size) has players for any file type)
    • Note 2: high quality audio like aac or wave is not needed for voice audio and results in very large file sizes


Step Two

  • Choose Your Deployment Method - place in Moodle (short, specific audio, less than 50MB) or share via Google Drive (longer audio files [lectures] greater than the 50MB Moodle file limit)

    • If uploading into your Moodle course, treat the file as any other document you are uploading to an Assignment or Forum, or Link (URL) for larger files 
    • If sharing from your Google Drive you can easily share the Link (URL) in a Forum or Assignment in which the instructor has enabled online text.  See Sharing a Google Drive File in a Moodle Forum or Online Assignment .
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