Podcasting Beyond Recorded Lectures

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Keynote slides from a workshop that prompted folks to think about using podcasts in a variety of ways,not just posting a recorded lecture. We also thought about a variety of ways to use pre-existing podcasts. Finally, we discussed the importance of thinking about the pedagogy behind using a podcast BEFORE anything else. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at clongstr @ uci.edu. Thanks!

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Podcasting: Thinking Beyond Recorded Lectures

Shaun Longstreet, PhDTeaching Learning & Technology Center

Agenda

Introductions

What is Podcasting?

Lectures - what do we get out of posting lectures?

Using podcasts creatively

Pedagogy and Technology

What type of information do you think your students

need outside of class?

Introduction Exercise

What is a Podcast?A podcast is a digital media file (or a series of such files) that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.

What is podcasting?Definition from Wikipedia.org - Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

RSS(Really simple syndication) allows Podcaster to post content up on web so people can subscribe to it

Individuals who are searching for content but

are not subscribers

PodcasterRecords Audio (Video) content (converts swf to pod format)

Subscribers to Podcast RSS Feed download podcast via an Aggregator*

Source: N. Kilkenney, 2007http://nkilkenny.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/why-podcast/

Google Generation

WWW literacy and use of on-line content for most (but not all) of our students is quite high.

67% receive news from on-line sources

74 % watch and/or produce videos on-line

56% have a portable mp3 device

52 % read and/or have on-line blogs

Questions?

Course-casting: A Recorded Lecture

Posting lectures on-line

Potential benefits?

Potential problems?

Another Common Use:The Guest Lecture

Using Podcasting Creatively:Introductions

Using Podcasting Creatively: Math faculty member at UCI (Dr. Greg Knese) uses podcasts to provide orientations to upcoming

course content.

Podcasting - Giving Feedback

Using podcasting to respond to student work when writing is too laborious or inefficient:

groups

longer feedback

class feedback

Do not discuss grades, however.

Questions?

How might you use a podcast for your course?

What are some of the potential advantages and/or problems that

might occur?

Discussion Exercise

Remember: Pedagogy Before Technology

Do not use multimedia content for the sake of entertainment. It will be received as frivolous.

What is the purpose of using a podcast? Be clear to yourself and make it clear to the students!

How can the podcast content and/or delivery system help your students achieve the course learning objectives?

Modes of TeachingIn class time Student alone

timeTeacher alone

time

Traditional lecture mode

Students receive first exposure to new

information / instructions

Processing new information /

activities

Grading / Writing feedback

A podcast can shift content delivery time

Often, a podcast can help us reallocate time so that we can use class time for students to practice using the skills and/or content they need to pass a course.

Use the classroom time and space when you are able to answer questions and be available to provide feedback to your students.

Move ‘first exposure’ of content into the student’s time. Make the students accountable for watching/listening by having a brief quiz (1-3 questions) at the start of class.

M o d e s o f T e a c h i n gIn class time Student alone

timeTeacher alone

time

Traditional lecture mode

Students receive first exposure to new

information / instructions

Processing new information /

activities

Grading / Writing feedback

Interactive mode

Process and feedback

First exposure

Creating Podcasts

Camtasia for screen capture

GarageBand and iMovie for recording and editing.

Keynote/PowerPoint

Open source possibilities (Audacity, Camstudio)

Venues for your podcasts.

iWeb

iTunes

personal webspace

YouTube

DO NOT POST anything publicly that might transgress FERPA regulations

Copyright Issues By default, you generally

have copyright of what you create.

Avoid using commercial media and be aware of other peoples’ restrictions on your use of their work.

Learn about CreativeCommons so that you may collaborate with others.

Questions?

Thank You!If you have questions later, please e-mail me

at clongstr @ uci.edu

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