Apple Podcasting Seminar Notes

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Apple Learning Exchange>Leadership and Professional Growth>Audio Education

How/why to use audio with students

• tapping into multiple intelligences/different learning styles when using audio files
• improve student reading and fluency (Shakespeare)
• listen to audiobooks
• provides individualized learning for students (ie. ELL)
• www.flocabulary .com
  
• audible.com - listen to audiobooks

• Vocabulary - find a picture on Internet, put text on top in iMovie, download to video iPod
• audiofiles - listen to historic speeches
• field trips: download audioguides (ie. Millennium Park)
  

Tips and How To

• .m4a is the extension to make an audio file compatible with iTunes
• Make metadata for the podcast with information, links, and images (use 400x400 jpg)
• plug-in the microphones first, then open GarageBand
• new track>vocals>no effect
• Preferences> to check if settings are correct for the microphone
• Controls>turn off metronome
• file is created as an AIF file (very large)
• save and export to iTunes>Get Info>add metadata
• Advanced Menu>convert selection to AAC ).m4a

Google Features "Dump"

• Use the ~ in front of a word to include its synonyms: ~painting should also return sites for art

• Put "or" in capital letters to have Google search either of 2 words: dogs OR poodles

• Square Root: sqrt and the number: sqrt 144 will offer the result 12. See Google Calculator for more info.

• Definitions: type the word definition and the word you want to define

• To find an address: type first name, last name, and city to find the person's address and phone #

• Type in a street address to get links to Yahoo Map and MapQuest

Manta Free Zone

Here we are on the Big Island, having a wonderful time on an all expenses paid trip. Free Hawaii -- it doesn't get much better than this until I tell you we are at the Four Seasons Resort -- sweet! Each day we get an activity fully paid and yesterday we chose the night manta dive.

We are both scuba divers and have been for 10+ years. A few years ago, we were here also and did this dive. We saw no mantas. So we figured our odds would be good to see them this time. Wrong. We got pimped by those mantas again! One person equated it to sending someone snipe hunting; we're starting to question their existence at all.