Podcasting intro for Rhodes

Podcasting for Teaching and Learning NITLE Emerging Technologies Rhodes College January, 2007

Plan for the session

Background

Podcasting from start to finish

Pedagogical issues and cases

Podcasting background

How old is the term? February 12, 2004:

“ With the benefit of hindsight, it all seems quite obvious. MP3 players, like Apple's iPod, in many pockets, audio production software cheap or free, and weblogging an established part of the internet…”

(Ben Hammersley, The Guardian )

“… all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio.

But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting ? GuerillaMedia?”

Context: the player

iPods and others

Ease of use

“ net.gen”

Fetish

History: Walkman and convergence

Pew Internet and American Life project:

“ More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing….”

Pew Internet and American Life project:

“… That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows internet “broadcasts” to be downloaded onto their portable listening device.”

(April 200 5 )

Context: social demand for audio

File-sharing persists

Web audio grows

Net.gen again

Context: the file format, or “I want my MP3”

Decent quality

Workable size

Portable

Net.gen yet again

Context: easier, popular tools for playing sound: hardware

iPods

Laptops

Desktops

Context: easier tools for recording sound: hardware

Mikes

Phones

MP3 player plugins

Increasing number of applications

Garageband, iMovie

Moviemaker

Audacity

Context: easier tools for recording and editing sound

Context: the Apple effect

2001 January: Apple unleashes iTunes

2001 October: “ “ iPod

2002 Windows compatible iTunes launched

Context: easier tools for distribution: syndication

R eally S imple S yndication, RSS

Free, open standards (XML)

Attached to blogs

Added to news media

… all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio.

But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting ? GuerillaMedia?

Protopodcasting

Web audio

Audioblogging

phoneblogging

(Orson Welles)

Mainstream media leaps in

BBC

NPR ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php )

Public radio in general ( http:// www.publicradiofan.com/podcasts.html )

Podcasting 101

Neologism tracking

godcasting

nanocasting

podfading

vlogging

podsafe

podspamming

podvertising

porncasting

Podcasting 101

Structure of podcasting:

Composition process

Podcasting 101

Finding and downloading the stuff

Podcasting 101

Hosting and maintaining the goods

Altogether now

Podcasting 101

Structure of podcasting, in other words

The sound file

Laptop, desktop, mobile device, phone

Editor

Compressor

Host

Podcasting 101

What is this Syndication?

Podcasting 101

Syndication example: Berkeley Science Groks

http:// www.groks.net /

Podcasting 101

… where you find:

http:// www.groks.net/groks.rss

Podcasting 101

… which, in your aggregator, automagically yields:

http://www.archive.org/download/groks190/groks101905_64kb.mp3

Podcasting 101

Syndication, therefore aggregation

Readers for a variety of platforms:

Bloglines

NetNewsWire

Newsgator

Podcasting 101

Syndication, therefore podcatchers

Juice

Songbird

Odeo

Podcasting 101

iPod meets iTunes for podcasts

Podcasting 101

Syndication is optional for playing

(a mere file folder)

Pedagogy of podcasting

How does this connect with teaching and learning?

Liberal arts pedagogies

Affordances

Cases + exploration

Classic digital pedagogy: timeshifting

In- and out of class content

Attendance issue

Student-driven

PS: the Betamax case (1984)

Classic digital pedagogy: repeatability

Scrubbing

Focus

Student-driven

New forms: profcasting

Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry

Duke: Classroom recording

Profcasting

Mary Washington University: Gardner Campbell, English

Duke: Course content dissemination

“ Busy old fool, unruly Sun,

Why dost thou thus,

Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?

Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?

Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

Late school-boys and sour prentices,

Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,

Call country ants to harvest offices ;

Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

Studentcasting

Voice

Individual or team-based

Constructivism

Response composition “ As part of the culmination of the seminar, I recorded student readings of Donne’s work for later distribution as podcasts.”

Content podcasting on campus

Language lessons by iPod (Middlebury College)

Student program podcasting on campus

War News Radio

(Swarthmore College)

Campus program podcasting

Language Lab Unleashed (Oberlin College)

Campus podcasting

Allegheny College http://webtools.allegheny.edu/podcast/

Bowdoin College http:// www.bowdoin.edu/podcasts /

Layafette College https://ww2.lafayette.edu/~soapbox/podcast

Swarthmore College http://acad.swarthmore.edu/podcast/

Focus on content

Literary texts

Oral history

Critical phrasing

Foreign language

Music

History

Literature

Lab sciences

Podcasts and research

Duke: Field recording

Trudi Abel, “Digital Durham and the New South” (Duke University, 2006)

New area for podcasting: information literacy

Podcasts and research

Public intellectual

Out of the Past

Engines of Our Ingenuity

In Our Time

University Channel

(Napoleon 101)

Instrumental to pedagogy: enhance other media

Handouts: Allegheny College, Gothcast

Enhance other media

Middlebury College, Barbara Ganley

Podcasting with…

Blogging

Digital storytelling

Photography

Study abroad

Enhance other media

Beth Harris, Art History, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

Podcasting with…

Blogging

Flickr

Conversations

Enhance other media

Commentary on digital video

Example: Battlestar Galactica DVD to Web

Instrumental: enhance other media

Apple: “enhanced podcasting”

Influences on other social media

Podcasting and videoblogging

Mixing and mashups

Mixing and mashups

Long historical antecedents

Constructivism

Copyright

Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006)

Commentary on primary and secondary sources

Merrymount College, Artmobs

Podcasts and questions for research

Information literacy

Questions of access

Archival problem

Editing and sampling challenges

Search

Podcasting: other issues

Copyright issues

“ podsafe”

Public domain

DiY (Garageband)

Copyright issues : content sources

Freesound - short sound clips

Copyright issues: content sources

Transom - downloadable shows and resources

Disquiet - archive of links to ambient and electronic mp3s

Amazon's free downloads

Copyright issues: content sources

Garageband.com - indie music hosting

iCompositions - free downloads, discussion for Garageband

Magnatune - not free, but inexpensive, and pays artists

Copyright issues: mashups

Negativland

Some Assembly Required

Finding podcasts

http:// audio.weblogs.com /

iPodder

Odeo

Finding podcasts

Podcast Alley

Podcast Network

Podcast News

Searching podcasts

Podscope

Podzinger

More emergent issues

Collaborative composition

Social software

Editing from the Web?

Audio comments

( http:// napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com / )

Social podcasts

http://waxxi.us/interactive.html

Podserve http://www.pod-serve.com

Resources

Readings

Bryan Alexander, “Podcasting and the Liberal Arts.” NITLE News , summer 2005.

Gardner Campbell, “There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education.” ER Nov-Dec 2005.

Resources

Readings

Karine Joly, “The Power of Podcasts: Universities explore mp3 technology as a new marketing tool.” University Business (July 2006), http:// www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p =1213

Alan Levine, “Podcasting on the cheap.” CogDogBlog post/wiki, Spring 2006. http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/PodcastOnTheCheap

Resources

Podcasts

Educause Learning Initiative, “It’s Pod Mania!” Educause Pocket Edition (November 2005). http://connect.educause.edu/blog/dianao/it_s_pod_mania_educause_pocket_edition_2/1654 .