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Podcasts: How to Make Them, Why You Should. Thomas DeVere Wolsey Professional Development Institute California Reading Association November 5, 2011. Theoretical perspectives. New literacies Socio-cultural traditions Constructivist traditions . Podcasting. Podcasting with children
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Podcasts: How to Make Them, Why You Should Thomas DeVere Wolsey Professional Development Institute California Reading Association November 5, 2011
Theoretical perspectives • New literacies • Socio-cultural traditions • Constructivist traditions
Podcasting • Podcasting with children • Time spent learning to use the technology • Motivation, listening skills, and interpersonal skills (Dlott, 2007)
Implications for Teachers • Podcasts expand opportunity and access to the teacher or professor’s lectures. • Revisiting the lecture • Flipping the classroom
Implications • Podcasting with scripts may provide more accessibility via adaptive technologies for special needs students • Proficiency with technology for personal uses to their roles as teachers may not transfer automatically. • Teachers can improve their content teaching through increased attention to traditional and new literacies. • integrate technology and content
Implications for Students • Composing opportunities • Using scripts and storyboards • Presenting • Constructing knowledge • Podcasts as texts
How Microphones and Hardware Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Garage Band http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ Telephone Digital recorders iTunes & RSS Feeds http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ . Course Management Systems: BlackBoard and the Baylor Podcasting Building Block
Podcast by Phone Call: 646-200-0000
More resources • Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/index.php • Pocast.com http://www.podcastalley.com/index.php • iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ • Podcasting on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c • Podcasting on CNN http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/ • Education Podcast Network: http://epnweb.org/ • BlackBoardhttp://www.blackboard.com
Try it out • http://techliteracypreconinstitute09.ning.com/group/podcasts • Itunes group • Digital recorder group • Microphone group • Phone groups http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/TWolsey
Contact • Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D. • Walden University • tom.wolsey@waldenu.edu
References Davis, A. & McGrail, E. (2009). “Proof-revising” with podcasting: Keeping readers in mind as students to and rethink their writing. The Reading Teacher, 62(6), pp. 52-529. doi: 10.1598/RT.62.6.6 Dlott, A. M. (2007). A (pod)cast of thousands. Educational Leadership, 64, 7, 80-82.