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Course title: How to create your own podcast – A step-by-step tutorial

Course provider: About Radio

http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm

Stated course objectives or outcomes:

1. How to record your audio and save it to an .mp3 file.
2. How to create an RSS file which holds the “directions” for sending your file when a user’s program like iPodder requests it
3. How to write the “directions” that are inside the RSS file
4. How to upload the RSS “feed” and your .mp3 file
5. How to validate that the file is written correctly and will send the file correctly.

Achievement of outcomes:

Be able to record an audio file and upload it as a podcast to my blog.

Stated course duration: Not stated

Actual course duration: 6 hours

Administration:

Were you provided with any support contact details? No

Did you need to contact admin support? No

Materials:

Were you supplied with any support materials? Only online links to more information and other tutorials

Were you issued with a certificate? No

Technology:

Did you have any issues with any of the technology used by this course? No, although I had to purchase a headset and microphone.

Virtual classroom:
Which components of the virtual classroom did the course offer? Links to articles, videos, tutorials, directories and downloads for necessary software

Did you use any of them? Yes all of them

Interactivity:
Rate the degree of interactivity: High

 Feedback:
Was there any feedback during the course? No – Feedback was present by the achievement of the outcomes but was not provided by the course itself.

Content:

Did the content cater to different learning styles? No

Was the content logically sequenced and organised? Yes

Were there options for different levels of expertise? Yes

Were there exercises that allowed you to practice skills? Yes

Was the content in plain English or jargon? Jargon

Was there a “real” facilitator? No

Navigation:

Was the navigation of the course content logical? Yes

Were there “breadcrumbs”? Yes

Was it simple to navigate to the lkast point where you had left the course? Yes

Did the site have FAQs? No