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What do we mean by educational podcasting?. Andrew Middleton, Sheffield Hallam University Alan Hilliard, University of Hertfordshire. Outline. Educational podcasting Awareness of what is happening in UK FE & HE through themed examples
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What do we mean byeducational podcasting? Andrew Middleton, Sheffield Hallam University Alan Hilliard, University of Hertfordshire
Outline Educational podcasting • Awareness of what is happening in UK FE & HE through themed examples • A shared understanding of the concept and its potential – activity and discussion
Why podcast? - activity • What can you do nowthat you could not do before?(Yellow post-its) • What can you do better nowthan before?(Pink post-its) • Why?
Category 1 - Tutor voice • Recording events (eg recorded lecture, summary audio notes) • Communicating (eg module announcements) • Motivating (eg tutor conversations, storytelling, etc) • Describing (eg interviews with professionals, clients, public) • Illustrating (eg testimony, vox pop) • Forming (eg instructional; feedback) • Building (eg key skill development) • Modelling (eg behaviour, techniques)
Category 2 - Student voice • Individual • Noting (e.g. field data, reflection, commentary) • Presenting (e.g. summary, poster, review, stories) • Feeding (e.g. peer assessment, seeding) • Group • Presenting (e.g. findings, proposals) • Conversing (e.g. criticism, review) • Sharing (e.g. topic magazine) • Exhibiting (e.g. work without commentary/anaysis)
Category 3 – External voices • Broadcasting and Commercial producers • Instructing (e.g. learning objects) • Describing (e.g. interviews with experts) • Updating (e.g. current affairs and developments) • Educational and Training Organisations • Various (e.g. learning objects) • Professional & Other Organisations • Marketing (e.g. product placement, initiatives) • Reporting (e.g. findings, proposals) • Conversing (e.g. criticism, review) • Advocating (e.g. political)
What is Educational Podcasting? • Activity • Discuss - what characteristics define podcasting? • (2 minutes, then feedback)
What is Educational Podcasting? • Social – ideas, questions and knowledge shared • Digital media – usually audio, increasingly video, PDFs • Accessible - Internet distributed, downloadable media • Flexible (time and location neutral) – hence 'time shifting', 'space shifting', mobile, flexible learning • Device neutral - media players, both software and hardware ----------------------------------------------------------------------Optional characteristics • Automatically delivered - Simple syndication technology (RSS + media enclosures) that allows interested parties to subscribe to published content ('feeds') from a particular supplier • Managed by the user - aggregation software designed to gather feeds
A definition • Educational podcasting is:The development of shared knowledge through distributed, digital media, accessible to its community through flexible interfaces
Summary of Benefits • Efficacy (simple, quick, high impact) • Authentic (simulation or real worldness) • Currency (e.g. immediate, up-to-date) • Human (e.g. empathy, trust) • Constructionist (learning through making) • Engaging, varied, perspectives • Varied diet – another learning channel • Motivational
Thanks – You've been listening to... David Morely, Warwick University, Writing Challenge; Anne Nortcliffe, SHU, Software Engineering Professional Experience;Alex Spiers/ Roger Morgan, Liverpool John Moores; June Clarke, Information Management, SHU;Noreen Axelby, Computing Foundation, SHU; Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth and Richard McCarter, Writing Pad, SHU; Graham McElearney, Richard Steadman-Jones and Duco van Oostrum, University of Sheffield, English; Alan Hilliard, University of Hertfordshire, Radiology; Stuart Lee, Oxford University, Medieval English; Denise Stokes, CIPL CETL Coventry/SHU; Jon Wood and Carl Senior, Aston University, Psychology; Peter Hillier, University of the Arts, London, CSM Foundation; Carol Pollard and Andrew Jackson, SHU, Clinical Practice; Peter Walder, SHU, Sport & Multimedia; Richard Lynch, SHU, Criminology; Andrew Middleton and Brian Irwin, SHU, LTI; Alan Carr, Mid-Cheshire College and Dark Horse Training; Engineering students, SHU; Computing students, SHU; Sport and Multimedia students, SHU;Art Mobs Moma, New York; Sarah Tiernan, The Psychology eZine, Aston University;Joe Davis, student, University of the Arts, London; Demos.