Beyond Podcasting: A look at Educational Uses of iPods at Penn State Great Valley

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Beyond Podcasting A look at Educational Uses of
iPods at Penn State Great Valley

• Julie M. Meyer, MSIT
• Barrie E. Litzky, Ph.D.

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Beyond Podcasting Objectives

• What is Podcasting?
• Educational Uses of iPods
• iPods _at_ Great Valley
• Podcasting _at_ Great Valley
• Social Entrepreneurship _at_ Great Valley
• Subscribing to Podcasts
• Recording Your Own Podcast
• Future of Podcasting _at_ Great Valley
• Resources

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What Is Podcasting?

• A podcast is a web feed of audio/video files
  available on the Internet.
• Syndicated audio/video files similar to a
  newswire distinguishes it as a podcast.

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Educational Uses of iPods/Podcasting

• Recording lectures for syndication
• Distribution of supplemental information
• Syndication of guest lectures
• Digital audio books
• Self-paced distance learning
• Upload text files, like interview questions
• Record interviews
• Upload PowerPoint files that have been saved as
  images

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iTunes University
http//www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/
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iPods _at_ Great Valley

• Lectures are recorded to iPods.
• The audio files are made available to the
  students through the course management system
  (ANGEL).
• iPod recordings are synchronized to PowerPoint
  presentations which are also available through
  ANGEL.

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Brain Storming
Vocal and instrumental Practice and critiques
Slide presentations
Music
entertainment
Photo slide shows
Public Speaking
Vodcasting
ESL and languages
Visual sharing
Audio sharing
iPods/Podcasting
Team work
storage
Interactive Multimedia
Podcasting Production
activities
Public speaking
Journalism
Literature and Poetry
Lecture recording And note taking
Interviewing skills
Lecture sharing
Study Skills
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Podcasting _at_ Penn State Great Valley

• http//www.personal.psu.edu/staff/j/m/jmm49/pod/

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Faculty

• Allows for flexibility.
• Allows students to continue to travel for work
  and still asynchronously participate in lectures.
• Creates a file that can be used in the creation
  of future blended delivered courses.
• The recordings allows faculty to critique their
  own delivery style.
• Students can critique their own presentation
  skills from recordings.
• Recording student team meetings acts as audio
  minutes for team members.

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Students

• Reiterates complicated course concepts at
  students own pace.
• No more missed lectures due to traveling,
  illness, or work obligations.

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Social Entrepreneurshipand Community Leadership
Course 

• Partnering the Leaders of Today with the Leaders
  of Tomorrow
•  

Presented by Penn State Great Valley in
partnership with Conestoga High School, Great
Valley High School, Malvern Preparatory School.
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WHAT IT IS?

• This Social Entrepreneurship and Community
  Leadership course focuses on using
  entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative
  responses to social needs. Entrepreneurs are
  particularly good at recognizing opportunities,
  exploring innovative approaches, mobilizing
  resources, managing risks, and building viable
  enterprises. These skills are just as valuable in
  the social sector as they are in business.
  Despite a sustained economic boom in this
  country, numerous social problems remain, and
  some seem to be getting worse. The course will
  focus on introducing business leadership and
  entrepreneurship principles to the social sector.

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Class Description

• Social Entrepreneurship and Community Leadership
  will provide an opportunity for students to
  explore the concepts of developing businesses
  which create social value, through exploration of
  the following topics defining social
  entrepreneurship, creating and sustaining
  businesses that add value to society,
  understanding and crafting business mission
  statements, identifying means of funding social
  enterprises, discovering the value of social
  entrepreneurship to individuals and businesses,
  and learning strategies for the evaluation of
  business success.
• This class is held jointly with graduate students
  from Penn State Great Valley and high school
  juniors/seniors from local schools. Students will
  work together in teams to complete an end-of-term
  pro-bono consulting project. Each team will work
  with a socially responsible for-profit or a
  not-for-profit organization. Teams will evaluate
  the organizations needs based on the material
  discussed throughout the course and design a
  business plan, strategic plan, funding proposal,
  or critical assessment of the organization.
  Students will work in a hands-on environment,
  by applying triple bottom line concepts in a
  real-world setting. Students will develop
  valuable professional and personal skills as they
  work in mentor/protégé relationships with high
  school students, fellow graduate students, and
  organizational clients.  

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Who Might Be Interested

• The course is an MBA elective, a capstone option
  for New Ventures and Entrepreneurial Studies
  students, and the capstone course for Master of
  Leadership Development students. Although
  preference will be given to MBA and MLD students,
  Education, Engineering, as well as MSIS students
  are welcome to enroll. The course is capped at 30
  graduate students, so enrollment will be on a
  first-come, first-served basis.
• This course will be most useful for students who
  might, at some point, pursue a formal or informal
  leadership position. Leaders are found at both
  for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
  While the course is designed to encourage
  students to pursue an entrepreneurial dream in
  the social sector, it is also very helpful to
  students who aspire to, or hold, leadership
  positions in the fields of business, education,
  law, medicine, or public policy. Understanding
  the dynamics of social entrepreneurship will
  serve any future leader well.

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Class Information

• The course will be offered in Fall II, 2006 and
  will meet twice a week for seven weeks, three
  hours each night. This class will be delivered in
  a blended format including scheduled face-to-face
  meetings at Penn State Great Valley, online
  assignment and discussion sessions, and off-site
  at the client organizations. The course will have
  a maximum of 30 graduate students and 30 high
  school students.

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Benefits

• Understand the concept and practice of social
  entrepreneurship, as it is an emerging field in
  the United States
• Be more effective in social entrepreneurial
  pursuits by building a practical knowledge of the
  alternative strategies for turning good social
  ideas into viable business options
• Interact with other students in a better
  understanding of social entrepreneurship, will
  discover resources for funding, explore
  organizational constraints, build business plans,
  and understand community needs
• Develop mentor/protégé relationships with local
  high school students and begin meeting the
  presidential challenge of 400 hours of community
  service.

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Subscribe to a Podcast

• Using iTunes
• Select Advanced Subscribe to Podcast
• Enter the URL, click OK(which is usually a
  .xml)

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Educational Podcasts

• To Name A Few
• EPN The Education Podcast Networkhttp//epnweb.o
  rg/
• http//www.highschoolpodcaster.com/
• The Podcast Search Engine and Directories List of
  Lists (Scroll down a bit) http//www.masternewmedi
  a.org/news/2005/05/20/where_to_submit_your_podcast
  s.htm

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Subscribing to a Podcast Example
http//www.podcastpickle.com/
http//www.crankcasting.com/podcast.rss
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Recording Your Own Podcast

• The methods we currently use

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Equipment
Recording Equipment
iPod Equipment
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Recording a Podcast is Simple

• Attach a recorder to your iPod and click Record
  when finished click Stop and Save
• Or use Audacity (free cross-platform audio
  Recorder)http//audacity.sourceforge.net/Can be
  used to mix or edit recordings.

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Audacity
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Future of Podcasting _at_ PSGV

• Create podcast-teasers to introduce various
  programs at Great Valley.
• Create Podcasts of Special Events at Great
  Valley. i.e. Management Research Showcase
  Lecture Series.
• Create asynchronous activities for blended
  delivered courses using pieces of already
  recorded lectures.
• Vodcasting

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Resources for educational uses

• http//www.darcynorman.net/2004/10/30/podcasting-f
  or-education
• http//www.sampletheweb.com/categories/tech/ipod/
• http//www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/make_
  ebooks_for_1.html
• http//epnweb.org/
• http//www.podcasting-tools.com/
• http//edupodder.com/http//itunes.stanford.edu/

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More Resources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• http//www.apple.com/itunes/
• http//www.apple.com/education/ipod/
• http//www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/