Pursuit of Podcasting
Producing the Podcast
Three Prongs of Podcasting
Geology with Meg Streepey
Pursuit of Podcasting
I think that the point with podcasting is the convenient delivery of audio material. You don’t need a Mac or an ipod to create or use podcasts effectively. But there may be educational situations where recording to an ipod makes pedagogic sense.
Producing the Podcast
This is basically a two stage process, creating the audio file and then making it into a podcast
- Creating the audio file. The critical component here is under what circumstances you want to record the audio.
- portable recording with
- desktop recording with :
- a public Lab machine (PC, Mac) using Audacity
- personal machine (PC,Mac) using Audacity
- Recording Studio
- Making the podcast
- Prof makes podcast for iTunes
- Students make podcasts inside blog
- Podcast from public site such as Feedburner
- Listening to Podcasts
- With iPod. Need iTunes on personal computer.
- With other media player.
- With Lab or personal computer. Can insist on iTunes as player.
Three Prongs of Podcasting
- Prof Produced Podcasts. Examples are :
- Language acquistion. Middlebury College are using iPods in a big way to enhance 2nd language acquisition (pdf version). They have distributed ipods filled with spoken vocab and phrases to language students. Interesting user rating system, and Earlham interest : Aletha Stahl, Japanese?
- Music composition. At the CET podcasting seminar one college (Allegheny?) mentioned that a music prof was having his studenst record their compositions as podcasts. Now, that’s a neat idea for Forest Tobey.
- Teachers Talk Technology : Mark’s podblog of Technology trends at Earlham
- Student produced. Ideas.
- Language acquisition. Students use ipod + italk microphone to record impressions / opinions about places, current events in language of choice. Immediacy.
- Music composition.
- Soundtrack for museum guide. Respond to official guide.
- WECI — Around the heart.
- Pedagogic value of podcasting. Focus on enhancing learning.
Geology with Meg Streepey
Phsical Geology Lecture & Lab. 2 Lab sections and one Lecture.
Combine podcasting with Moodle. Meg gives an informal lecture in class. Record full notes as a podcast. Publish in Moodle and as podcast on her web page. Three uses:
- Aid for students stuck by concepts
- Explicit assignment could be to listen to podcast and answer questions addressed by it.
- Review / revision for exam.
Also, Assignment — find a relevent podcast, listen and summarise.
Group work — one group to create podcast as their project outcome.
Pedagogical advantage
Students have to listen closely to content and make their own notes. Can pause, rewind, fast forward through material and listen at their own convenience.
Possibilities for grant applications, publications.
Posted by markp at November 14, 2005 06:05 PM