Using Podcasting for Teaching: Part 1 - Find & Use Online Content/Donna Eyestone (@ONE Seminar Training)

In this one hour session, Donna provided an overview on podcasts: what they are, how to find them, and how to use them in a course or other learning environment.

Podcasting has risen from 28 podcasts in August 2004 to over 379,000,000 in August 2006. Donna walks the viewer through iTunes, the most popular site for accessing podcasts and discusses a variety of podcasts that could be used in the educational arena.

Some of the issues covered in this podcast included:
Accessibility issues (transcripts must be made available)
Advantages in a learning environment (Portable access, Assisting auditory learners, provides unlimited opportunities for “guest lectures”, includes rich media material to complement texts, provides an ability to review materials for classes, tests, exams, etc. (anytime anywhere)

Donna mentioned Duke University’s podcasting experiment where all faculty and incoming students were given IPODS and then were set free to explore the realm of use in the educational arena. After the class, I went to Proquest and found that Stanford and Berkeley are also experimenting with podcasting class sessions. (see http://tinyurl.com/yx5wmk)

To get started, Donna suggested that an instructor select appropriate content, determine instructional goals, design podcast, produce it, and then incorporate it into the course. She also showed how we could produce a podcast.

I thought it was particularly interesting to explore ItunesU -- a shared podcasting in education site.
http://itunes.stanford.edu

Donna also mentioned a MAC resource called Profcast that takes Powerpoint presentations and converts it easily to podcast sessions. She acknowledged that right now it is much more difficult to do in the PC environment. She also mentioned the software Audacity, use of Quicktime Pro, and Live State pro as podcasting resources

A very interesting seminar, especially for me who has used iTunes and podcasts before.

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