Podcasting in e-learning part-2

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Podcasting as a tool in the teaching-and-learning and social interaction toolbox in higher education: Part 2, Good podcasting practice. This was from an online seminar that I did for SANTEC in early 2007.

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  • 1. Part 2: Good podcasting practice

2. What are some of thethings podcasts can beused for, and how can they best be applied? 3. Podcasting in education 4. Podcasts conveying content...

  • Think about that:
  • music
  • recorded audio
  • Thats all a podcast offers, yet it has all the power of
  • radio, and none of the
  • main drawbacks.

5. Podcasts conveying content...

  • Podcasts can be used to give learning content
    • e.g. Record a storybook
    • e.g. record yourself lecturing
    • e.g. Interview a world expert while you are away at a conference
    • e.g. record a dialogue
    • e.g. fireside chat

6. Podcasts as learning activities...

  • Podcasts can be used to create learning activities in which the learners:
    • e.g. Record a radio broadcast
    • e.g. Interview a person about a subject
    • e.g. Engage in a fireside chat
    • e.g. Maintain a weekly learning log

7. Melissa & Beethoven You may wish to pausehere and right click the User menu, open Podcast in anew window, and listen topart of a podcast made by my two kids, Melissa andFrankie. 8. Podcasts conveying content... OK, so maybe I have aDad's perspective, but the podcast does show what can be done, even by an8 year old. That podcast also showsa feature that we can refer to asremix , because it ismainly a remix of content found on Wikipedia. 9. Think about education in an increasingly digital world. Do the old transmission paradigms still work? Didthey ever work? What about the creativepotential of the students? Where does it fit in to the podagogy? 10. Can podcasting be the beginning of a strongremix culture in education? Or is podcasting just an extension of the sage on stage model? 11. Burn to Learn 12.

  • An abundance of content under a Free license
  • Educational pedagogies encouraging reuse
  • Assessment method-ologies based on reuse
  • Smart progressive teachers

What do we needto make it happen? 13. Remix can start at a very young age! See http://www.pennmanor.net/podcast/ for some awesome examples 14. 15. Social networking

  • Providing interesting commentary
  • From the front lines
  • Personal views
  • Academic commentary
  • Reporting home
    • From conferences
    • From field trips
  • Sharing your ownspeeches

Whenever I go to a conference, I always takemy MP3 device,and record myown talk.I also often record other people with their permission as well. Some really good examples are onthe digital freedom site: http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za 16. Where its evolving

  • Video podcasting
  • Video blogging
  • Moblogging

You may have visited the Digital Freedom Expo blog, after I posted from my cellphone yesterday. This is an example of moblogging, posting to blogs fromcellphones and other mobile deviceswithout going through the intermediaryof a desktop or laptop computer. 17. End for this section Derek Keats [email_address] http://ics.uwc.ac.za http://avoir.uwc.ac.za http://elearn.uwc.ac.za Visit the digital freedom exposition at http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za/ Come join us for the Expo on April 19-20, 2007 at UWC. More presentation material will follow in another thread