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Information and communication technology for Tour Guides/Activities/Podcast tours
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We did something a little different and let our iPods be our tour guide. The park offers a free Audio Tour as an MP3 download to bring on your digital music player. This turned out to be a great way to see the park.
Objectives
Following is an activity that should take you about 4 hours in total. You will learn how to:
- download an archive file and extract audio files from it
- play audio on a computer or portable player
- search for and download images with appropriate copyrights
- create and publish a slide show based on an audio file
- send and email with a link
Activity
- Find and download the file containing the MP3 audio files for the audio tour of Millennium Park.
- Pick one of the audio files and find images that are related to the locations and subject matter in the audio.
- Create a slide presentation out of the images and upload the finished work to Slideshare or your preferred web service for publishing images.
- NB, make sure you source images that have clear copyright statements that permit you to use the images, or get permission from the copyright holder. A good place to source images with permissions to reuse is flickr's Creative Commons library (be sure to credit original authors).
- email your and let them know which audio file you have used and provide a link to your published presentation.
Supporting resources
- Finding images licensed with Creative Commons - a youtube video demonstration
- Embedding media on a blog - a youtube video demonstrating how to embed media into a blog (optional extra to the activity)
