Dearborn Public Schools Video Cast
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- Board of Education Podcast
- D-Tube Video Sharing (Our very own Youtube style website)
Exploring the Digital Frontier
Welcome to the latest use of technology from Dearborn Public Schools. In an effort to keep a well informed public, we are on the cutting edge of a new technology called "Podcasting". Podcasting brings content to you the end user without having to search the Dearborn Public Schools web site for the information. We are using podcasting technology to distribute our Board of Education meetings via QuickTime streaming video.
Podcasting from the classroom: Visit the website | View Flyer
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| TECHNICAL HELP: 3 Step Fix for QuickTime if you experience problem |
How do I get my Dearborn Schools VideoCast?
Step 1 - Download Apple's I-tunes software version 4.9 or better.
- I-Tunes For both PC and MAC ‹‹ click to download software. This is the newest version of I-Tunes that has just been released.
Step 2 - To load iTunes and subscribe click on the photos above. When iTunes loads, you will be taken to a page in iTunes that shows a preview of the shows in our podcast. Click the subscribe button and iTunes will now load all our podcast shows.
Step 3 - Important: Using Itunes to view podcast information:
Once you have subscribed to the DPS podcast feed in I-Tunes, click on the arrow next to our podcast feed. You should now see the list of available Board of Education Meetings. Select the Board Meeting that you want to view and Double-Click it. If you begin to hear voices with no video, follow the step below.
If the video doesn't appear, click on this icon at the bottom left of I-Tunes to view the DPS VideoCast of our Board of Education Meetings. The video will appear where you normally see album artwork.
QUICK TECH FIX:TECHNICAL HELP: 3 Step Fix for QuickTime if you experience problem |
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You must download I-Tunes Version 4.9 + |
The other method is to copy and paste the podcast URL into I-Tunes. Open I-Tunes and in the menu select "advanced" and click on "Subscribe to Podcast". Type or copy and paste this URL: |
What is a Podcast?
Excerpt taken from wikipedia
"The term "podcasting" is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. Although an iPod is currently the playback device of choice for many early adopters of podcasting, a portable music player is not required to take advantage of this method of content distribution. Podcasting is functionally similar to the use of timeshift-capable digital video recorders (DVRs), such as TiVo, which let users record and store television programs for later viewing.A podcast is much like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the internet, and she or he can listen to them at her or his leisure.
Podcasts differ from traditional internet audio in two important ways. In the past, listeners have had to either tune in to web radio on a schedule, or they have had to actively download individual files from web pages. Podcasts are more flexible and much easier to get. They can be listened to at any time because a copy is on the listener's computer or portable music player, and they are automatically delivered to subscribers, so no active downloading is required."
How is podcasting different from streaming audio?
Podcasting is different from broadcasting and webcasting in that it "casts" audio not by a mechanism of centrally pushing audio out to listeners, but by the mechanism of the (distributed) listeners pulling (downloading) the audio files automatically. Podcasters publish (or "podcast") audio files, even in the likeness of radio shows, but it is the individual listener who initiates the "cast" through their subscription and automatic download of the audio program.Podcasting also utilizes the combination of audio files and RSS to publish descriptive data and metadata associated with the audio. RSS files used in podcasting include dates, titles, descriptions, and links to audio files. These links to audio files within RSS, which are used by podcasting applications, are defined by the enclosure elements in RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0 (RDF), and all of the original podcasting proper applications were built to work with RSS 2.0.
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