The Five Canons, Audience,

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The Five Canons, Audience, Earbuds

• Adding Podcasting to the Computers Writing
  Classroom

Jennifer L. Bowie ? Assistant Professor ? Georgia
State University Computers Writing 2008 ? May
25, 2008 ? UGA _at_ Athens, GA
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Overview

• Podcasting 101?
• Considering podcasting in the CW classroom
• Rethinking the old in new ways
• Integrating podcasting into CW classrooms
• Conclusions

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Podcasting 101

• Podcast iPod broadcast
• Digital media files distributed over the internet
• RSS feeds subscriptions and delivery
• Often played on portable media players
• Not just for iPods
• Time-shifted location-shifted
• Started as grassroots/independent now
• with many companies organizations
• Increasing popularity

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Podcasting 101 Popularity

• In 2007 13 of US population has listened to a
  podcast

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Considering podcasting in the CW classroom

• Another form of writing and media
• Part of technological literacy
• Another form our students may need to master
• Old/new form of writing and rhetoric
• Traditional form (think Greeks)
• Current popular from (presentations, speeches,
  )
• Digital with universal access
• Better knowledge distribution model
• Lessons learned may help other forms

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Rethinking the old in new ways The 5 canons

• Invention "discovering the best available means
  of persuasion (Aristotle)
• What to say?
• What topoi? Take testimony for example
• Arrangement the order of discourse
• Is there a genre/subgenre?
• If so, what is the genre?
• Music before? After?
• Which point first?
• Intro? Outro?
• Style the artful expression of ideas appropriate
  to ones purpose
• How will it be said?
• Ethos pathos become key
• Things to consider Dictation, accents, jargon,
  word choices, expression, speed

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Rethinking the old in new ways The 5 canons

• Memory treasury of things invented (Ad
  Herennium), Recall of topoi often drawing on
  kairos and grounded in audience and circumstances
• Scripted podcasts may delve into memory
• Unscripted podcasts just like the good ol
  ancient days
• Delivery public publication/presentation of
  discourse. How it is said presentation of
  argument with effective gestures, tone, words,
  movement, and images
• Oral roots in new ways
• Editing
• Sound levels
• Voice modulation
• Music
• Visuals album art
• Performance
• More traditional print/web based concerns
• Transcripts/ text forms of the content
• Websites and associated places for the podcasts

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Rethinking the old in new waysAudience,
purpose, context, tone

• Audience
• Their voice makes it more personal and increases
  their investment
• Words, accents, music, length, , and overall
  message more deeply considered
• Better audience visualization
• Purpose
• Often becomes more than just another paper I
  have to write
• Can portray in more ways music, tone, word
  choice, speed,
• Easily leads them into the next step
• Context
• Suddenly user/listener/reader/ context matters
• Will they be at their computer? Driving? Running?
  Cooking? Folding laundry?
• Considers what matters and works for the users
  context
• Tone Tone now means something

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Integrating podcasting into CW classrooms

• Option from list of various media
• Class weekly review
• Regular individual podcast
• Student selected topics (related or not)
• News
• Class review/reflection
• Provided topics
• Research papers
• New approaches to old genres
• Media message comparisons
• Professor response
• Peer review

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Conclusions

• Fits into the goals of a CW classroom
• Provides new ways for students to consider,
  rethink, understand, and apply old concepts
• Easy to incorporate
• Leads to improved writing and investment

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Thank you!

• Jennifer L. Bowie jbowie_at_gsu.edu
• Professional website http//www.rhetcomp.gsu.edu/
  jbowie/
• Screen Space Podcast Blog http//www.screenspac
  e.org/
• Presentation slides handouts
  http//www.rhetcomp.gsu.edu/jbowie/presentation/
  
• Image Digital Media Galaxy http//www.digitalmedi
  agalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/podcast.jpg