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Podcasting in Education

Tama Leaver

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• The Higher Education Context(Lectopia, WebCT, etc.)

• Student Podcasting(iGeneration Example)

• Why Get Students Podcasting?(Digital Literacies, Student Engagement, etc.)

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Traditional Pedagogy

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Course Management Systems

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•Communication Studies Honours Course

•Face to face seminars; Blog-based; collaborative curriculum

•Open-source or free tools (Blogger, Audacity.)

•Podcasts hosted by Lectopia (nb: OurMedia.org etc. as alterative free hosts).

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Construct an innovative digital audio programme of up to 45 minutes length which explores the medium of podcasting and critically engages with the idea of participatory culture in either the podcast itself or its exegesis. The programme can be of any genre or type, but must comply with copyright restrictions as the file will be made available publicly online.

Student Podcasts

• A Pod Play

• Critical Commentary

• Community Ethnographies

• Museum or Gallery Tours

• Radio-style Documentaries

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• Public Work = Better Work.

• Increased Student Engagement with Peers & Community

• Construction = Heightened Critical Awareness

• Thinking about ‘my work’ = better understanding of copyright & plagiarism.

• Portfolio Pieces

• Awareness of Audio (Most Under-studied area of media production)

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•Tackling sound before video focuses on parts before the whole.

•Legally re-usable samples and music more widely available (Creative Commons, Podsafe Music, etc.)

•Open-source tools the ‘norm’ for many podcasters (Audacity).

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Creative literacies: The ability to experiment with technology in order to create and manipulate content that serves social goals rather than merely retrieving and absorbing information.

Jean Burgess, ‘Blogging to Learn, Learning to Blog’ in Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, eds, Uses of Blogs, New York: Peter Lang (2006): 107.

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