Various Resources and Notes to Support Presentation

Podcast Presentation

These are my PowerPoints from my podcast presentation at West Coast MoodleMoot 2013, Portland, OR.

PowerPoints, 3 per page
PowerPoints, 6 per page
PowerPoints, 1 per page

Supporting Demonstrations

Get Rick's podcast from iTunes

Access Feed File in Firefox

Access Feed File in Chrome

Access Feed File in IE

Access Feed File in Safari

Adding RSS Block in Moodle

Putting your podcast on iTunes

Rick's "Videos, Videos, Videos" Webpage Example

Apple's Podcast Specification

You can find this, along with other information from Apple's Website.

Apple's "Podcast_Demo" feed (slightly modified):

http://www.rjerz.com/ise/workshops/Making_Podcasts/Apple_Example_Feed.xml

You can try putting (copy & paste) this URL into various software "aggregators."

Example of using Flash to direct a student to one podcast episode

Student, I have this video to help you understand how to log into Moodle.

(URL = http://www.rjerz.com/v/rjPlayer/rjPlayer.html?crs=rjmoodle&vid=3)

or, a diiferent approach, focusing on just the one video ...

Student, I have this video to help you understand how to log into Moodle.

(URL = http://www.rjerz.com/v/rjPlayer/rjPlayer.html?crs=rjmoodle&vids=3&vid=3)

Feed Editors (that Rick has used)

Feed Editor

My favorite feed editor for the PC. There may be better, but this is one that I found and have been using for awhile. It is also inexpensive.

FeedForAll

My favorite feed editor for the PC. There may be better, but this is one that I found and have been using for awhile. It is also inexpensive.

iTunes and XML Mapping

A graphic from Apple showing how XML data gets mapped to the podcast items on the Apple store.

Training Possibilities

Lynda.com training videos (these are quite good).
Adobe "classroom" series books.
Many other books from the library or bookstores.

Various methods for directing users to your podcasts.

Some of these are more automatic than others.