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Podcasts from Berlin:Downloaded in Swansea

Dr David Gill

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Introduction

• HEA funded project to create exemplars for teaching

Greek archaeology and Egyptology

• Available from the Learning Lab:

http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/heapodcasting.html

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Podcasting the Ancient World

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Tools for Creating Podcasts

• Olympus digital

recorder with USB hub

• Canon Eos Digital

450D

• MacBook using

Quicktime and iMovie

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Why podcast archaeological material?

• To help students engage with unfamiliar material

• To place sculptures in context

• To give a sense of scale for the monuments

• To provide a topographical setting

• To offer a personal commentary and reaction

• To assist with the identification of monuments as part of the

student assessment

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The Pergamon exemplar

• Level 2 / 3 module

‘Images of Power in the

Greek and Roman

Worlds’

• Pergamon located in

north-west Turkey

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The Pergamon altar

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The scale of the altar

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Podcasts of the Pergamon Altar

•Scale of the altar

•First impressions of the

altar

•Reading inscriptions

•Pergamon at Athens

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Student benefits

• To encourage interest in unusual sites

• To develop a more detailed knowledge

• To note an improvement in assessed work

• To find students applying for summer schools in Greek

archaeology

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Creating podcasts (on a Mac)

• Images in iPhoto

• Audio saved in iTunes

• Combined in iMovie

• MP4 files saved on server

• Delivered through Blackboard

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Selecting the images in iPhoto

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Selecting audio in iTunes

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Creating the podcast in iMovie

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Student access to podcasts

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Podcasts on iTunes

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Podcasts in iTunes

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Videos in iTunes

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Future Tools

Flip video with USB

connection

New range of Olympus

digital recorders

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Finally …

Thanks to …

• Chris Hall

• Kasia Szpakowska

• HEA

• JISC