April 18, 2006

More on Podcasting Lectures

More thoughts:

  1. It’s really quite an effort to make a good recording in the lecture room, although I think I have that more or less sussed with my setup.
  1. If there’s a tech failure in the classroom it can be fixed in the podcast, eg a link to the spreadsheet or a screen shot of the same.
  2. Any lecture really does need to be ‘chapterised’ into sections. This is rather time consuming and should really be done by the prof.
  3. With this amount of effort going in, you really want to have students do something with the podcast, to interact with it:
    • One could ask a number of questions or issues to reflect upon in a blog posting. Problem here is situating the response. Whereas text can be copied/pasted and quoted, how do you do the equivalent for audio?
    • Possible solution : how about ‘podlinks’ or ‘podnotes’? The same mp3 file could be referenced by a different XML file (in the student’s web space too boot) and notes and links inserted into this. Hmmm. And what about social commenting on a single podcast? Hmmmm.
Posted by markp at April 18, 2006 06:20 PM