1 / 23

Podcasting Possibilities

Learn about the origins of podcasting, its evolution, and potential in education. Discover how podcasting is revolutionizing information delivery and student engagement. Explore the challenges and opportunities of incorporating podcasting into the classroom.

jsherlock
Download Presentation

Podcasting Possibilities

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Podcasting Possibilities Jennifer Reeves Cyprien Lomas

  2. Why We’re Here • Jen Reeves: • Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism • Led podcasting experiment at NLII annual meeting • Looking for new and useful ways to use podcasting and “vodcasting”

  3. Why We’re Here • Cyprien Lomas: • Director, The Learning Centre, UBC • NLII Fellow 2004 & ADE • Blogger, RSS enthusiast • Interested in exploring emerging practices associated with new technologies in Higher Education

  4. What is Podcasting? • Where did it come from? • RSS feeds • News Readers • Why now?

  5. What is Podcasting Really? • TiVo for audio files • Files come to you • Listen offline, anytime

  6. Influence of the Blogosphere • DIY vs. Professional Content • Cinema Verité • The influence of the Cluetrain Manifesto • Evolving Weekly (about 22 weeks old) • Honest Voices

  7. Podcasting so far • Underworld of anything audio: • Opinions and discussions • “Podsafe” music • Mainstream • Sermons • Speeches • Journalism

  8. NLII Podcasting Experiment • Partnership with Missouri School of Journalism, Apple Computer and Penn State • Team of 3 • Provide a new podcasting experience

  9. Experiment Goals • Learn the logistics • Find out how much content we can create • Get people interested • Preserve the meeting

  10. Intensive Podcasting • “Quick turns” • NPR-style reviews • Voices of participants

  11. Podcasting Logistics • Audio capture • Editing • Compression

  12. Final Results • Speeches: 4.9 hours • Edited work: 38.4 minutes • Total: 5.6 hours

  13. Post Conference Stats • How many downloads • Used for… • The blogosphere reaction

  14. Reaction to Podcasting • Skepticism • Confusion • Excitement • Innovation

  15. Institutional Value? • Education

  16. Why is Podcasting Great? • Ease of information transmission • Simple delivery process • More use for MP3 players

  17. Challenges • Getting students to “buy in” • Consistent podcasts • Technological support from university(server space, upkeep, bandwidth) • Promotion

  18. Podcasting Potential • Supplementary information • Lecture review • Online courses • Student involvement • Student ownership of material: remixing /reorganizing data

  19. Podcasting Potential • New medium for new voices (blogging favors writers) • Integration with location based applications • Blog systems of recommender/referrer systems (collaborative filtering)

  20. Vodcasting • How is this related? • RSS treatment of media - any media can be shifted around

  21. Vodcasting • Another level of access to the classroom • Requires a camera • Even more potential for online courses

  22. Vodcasting • This is emerging as we speak: • digitalbicycle.org • www.videoblogging.info • groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging • freevlog.blogspot.com

  23. What’s next?

More Related