More on podcasting

More podcasting stuff of interest:

• Social Impact of Technology class podcast page
• Comments about podcasting in public Labs
• Two new potential podcasters:

1. Bumped into Forest Tobey today and talked to him about having his students podcast their music compositions. He tells me that he’s teaching Music & Technology class next semester, so podcasting is a natural fit there.
2. Marc Benamou has apparently purchased a solid state digital recorder for use with his Ethnomusicology course. Good potential for podcasting here too.

But I do think that the process needs to me made easier; perhaps this application called Listgarden may do the job.

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

1. Creating the audio file. The critical component here is under what circumstances you want to record the audio.
   1. portable recording with
      • ipod
      • digital recorder — Edirol R-1 Portable 24-Bit WAVE Recorder & Player
   2. desktop recording with :
      • a public Lab machine (PC, Mac) using Audacity
      • personal machine (PC,Mac) using Audacity
      • Recording Studio
2. Making the podcast
   1. Prof makes podcast for iTunes
   2. Students make podcasts inside blog
   3. Podcast from public site such as Feedburner
3. Listening to Podcasts
   1. With iPod. Need iTunes on personal computer.
   2. With other media player.
   3. With Lab or personal computer. Can insist on iTunes as player.

Three Prongs of Podcasting

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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:

1. Aid for students stuck by concepts
2. Explicit assignment could be to listen to podcast and answer questions addressed by it.
3. 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.

I wandered lonely as a ... Tag cloud

I blundered across Tagcloud where you can do the del.icio.us thing with your own feeds.

I exported all my RSS feed list that I’d accumulated in Sage to an opml file and then uploaded this. The first go round generated a lot of rubbish words which I add to the Stop List and then I got this cool tag cloud — go ahead and click on it to go to the interactive cloud: