presenters: jonah bossewitch & brian o’hagan podcasting and its application to educational...

Presenters: Jonah Bossewitch & Brian O’Hagan

Podcasting and its application to educational contexts – A hands-on demonstration workshop.

Podcasting: In Theory and Practice

The TiVo of The Internet

• Media delivered over the Internet

• Episodic Programming, in the sense of Radio and TV

• podcast = iPod + Broadcast• Both the content and the method of

delivery

The Internet Rules Apply

• Anyone can create a podcast

• Processes can be automated

• Information and Conservation Laws

Why Podcast?• Ease of Creation and Consumption• Download and Go• Huge penetration of portable media

devices• Discoverability, Dissemination

Distribution• Educational?

Pedagogical applications

• making lectures available (with visuals!)

• language instruction

• flash cards

• guided tours

• exegesis

• [your idea here]

Types of Podcasts

• Audio– http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/dental/podcasts/podcast.xml

• Enhanced– http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/sonicg/index.xml– http://www.dkv.columbia.edu/fos/fos_s06.xml

• Video– http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/filmglossary/web/clipfiles/indexfu

ll.xml– http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/podcasts/nme2006/nme2006_video.xml

Rules of the Revolution

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

• http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

Mechanics

+ web servis [web ‘servis] - noun:

open-standard-based Web applications that exchange and process data. The results can be formatted for user-friendly presentation in different modes.

+ NYT XML/RSS HTML/JS

+ HUH??

RSS Revealed

email, mobile, Palm, iPod, desktop, etc …

Demonstration of Podcasting Tools

Balance

+ "Striking the balance between push and pull”+ Choice: How do students want to get info?

How do you want to deliver it?

Classroom Dynamics

+ how will students engage with information and each other?

+ how structured will participation be?

Essence of the engagement?

+ Comprehensive collection of student work over time = Portfolio?

+ Communication, structured or free form = Discussion? Chat?

+ Course administration/organization = Syllabus, calendar, announcements?

+ Collaboration, sharing work = groups? Wiki?

Tools can be “interpreted”

+ Looks same, functionally different:

vs.

+ e.g. Test vs. Survey+ a.k.a. eight different

ways to use the same tool

+ Looks different, functionally equivalent:

vs.

+ e.g. Assignments section vs. syllabus (to deliver assignments)

+ a.k.a eight ways to do the same thing

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Purposeful Choices:

+ The tool and rules affect how the tool will be used in class

+ we haven't fully considered the range of uses...

“Web Services”: a history

“Web Services”: a history

“Web Services”: a future

“Web Services”: some variations

+ RSS (syndication, subscription)+ Tagging

+ Photo sharing+ Social bookmarking+ By whom, for whom, and why

(folksonomies - describing something in my own terms) + The whole is suddenly more than the sum

of parts