Dan currently has three books available as resources for teachers. These books will provide you with lots of background and tutorial material for implementing creative audio and podcasting into your classroom or educational organization.
They are more than simple tutorial books, they are filled with examples and activities to provide educators with the context they will need in order to position new technologies in their teaching and community building.
KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom – Purchase Now
Podcasting is the next wave in creative communication allowing anyone with audio recording software and an Internet connection to begin producing their own audio programs. Your podcast can highlight your classroom, your community, your curriculum, or just about anything you and your students can dream up. Podcasting is a great way for teachers and students to reinforce what they are learning and share their own unique voices with the world. Podcasting can also support your classroom by offering thousands of unique audio programs produced by public radio stations, museums, subject area experts, educators and creative individuals. You can subscribe to these programs for free and download them for playback on your computer or on a portable music player. Podcasts can provide you with curriculum support, professional development and hours of free entertaining content.
KidCast will get you and your students started with easy to follow directions to help you:
- Learn the basics of finding and listening to podcasts on the Internet
- Organize your own podcast show
- Find low-cost easy to use audio recording and mixing software
- Create RSS feeds to allow others to subscribe to your show
- Promote your podcast to build your listener base
Kidcast: Creative Podcasting Activities, Strategies, and Ideas – Purchase Now
If you are ready to take Podcasting to the next level, then grab your microphone and a copy of this “must have” resource guide for podcasting educators. Once you master the basics of recording, editing, and posting podcasts, it’s time to focus on making interesting, thought-provoking, and creative content that will keep your listeners coming back for more!
The hands on activities in this book will help you create podcast dramas, sound seeing tours, podcast game shows, and many more. You’ll also get plenty of management, organization, and implementation strategies and tips to help make your classroom podcast successful.
GarageBand Mechanics – Purchase Now
Thousands of classroom teachers and music educators have begun exploring music in a whole new way thanks to Apple’s GarageBand software. Now, there is a guide to GarageBand written especially for teachers. GarageBand Mechanics offers educators 130 pages of how-to’s, tips, and curriculum centered projects for learning and implementing GarageBand in their classroom. Whether you are a beginner or virtuoso, you will be able to create beautiful music in no time with GarageBand Mechanics.