Enhanced Podcasting

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Enhanced Podcasting
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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