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Title: Enhanced Podcasting


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Enhanced Podcasting
  • at Tacoma Community College

Geoff Cain Andy Duckworth Tacoma Community College
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Who we are
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Agenda
  • Define podcasting and enhanced podcasting
  • Current uses in education
  • Examine benefits to students and instructors
  • Best practices for educational podcasts
  • Demonstration of enhanced podcasting tools
  • Your questions

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MP3 Players
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Subscribing to Content
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Podcast Defined
  • A syndicated file distributed via the Internet
  • Audio blog (web log)
  • Internet radio
  • The term is a combination of iPod and broadcast.

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Ownership
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Awareness
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Growth
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Demographics
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Cognitive Science
  • The basic architecture of how we understand
    language is much more similar between reading and
    listening than it is different.
  • -- Daniel T. Willingham
  • New York Times, Aug. 11, 2007, p. D2

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Possible Uses
  • distribute mini or full lectures
  • provide short review sessions
  • Student reports, peer and expert interviews
  • Instructor led interviews of experts
  • make class announcements
  • share industry news

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Providing Deeper Engagement
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Benefits to Students
  • Allows visually impaired or dyslexic students to
    get course information
  • Appeals to auditory learners
  • Mobility take content anywhere
  • Time-shifting of content listen when it is
    convenient
  • Supporting current students information needs and
    style

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Student Created Podcasts
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Best Practices for Podcasting
  • Appropriate length
  • between 5 - 15 minutes
  • chunk content if necessary
  • too short perceived as a waste of time
  • too long interest lost before podcast is
    finished

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Include context and review
  • begin with clear context for info being presented
  • end with review of most important things to
    remember

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Include options for different learning style
preferences
  • offer optional transcripts and/or images
  • transcripts are essential for accessibility

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Include flexible delivery options
  • make available through more than one subscription
    method (iTunes, RSS, Blog, etc.)
  • maintain archives

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iTunes U
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iTunes U A sample class
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Enhanced Podcast Demo
  • PC
  • Audacity
  • Snapkast
  • Macintosh
  • Garageband
  • iTunes
  • Podcast People

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References
  • The Infinite Dial 2007 Radios Digital
    Platforms Arbitron Inc./Edison Media Research
    www.arbitron.com/downloads/digital_radio_study_200
    7.pdf
  • Reynolds, Rob. The Pedagogy of Podcasting.
    Xplanazine. July 7, 2005. www.xplanazine.com/xplan
    aradio/archives/2005/07/pedagogy_for_po.html
  • iGeneration Digital Communication
    Participatory Culture. University of Western
    Australia. Nov. 4, 2005. http//i-generation.blogs
    pot.com/
  • Other Resources
  • http//www.apple.com/iTunes/
  • http//audacity.sourceforge.net (n.b.-- download
    the app and LAME encoder)
  • http//podcastpeople.com
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