Podcasting In Education
Podcasting In Education
by Duarte Velez Grilo
(duartegrilo@gmail.com)
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● What is a podcast?
– File (“the magazine”)
– Received via a RSS feed (“the regular mail”)
● What is podcasting?
– The act of transmitting a file through a RSS
feed (“the mailman”)
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● Why should we use it?
– Improves public speaking skills
– Makes life easier for students
– Makes life easier for teachers too
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● Why shouldn't we use it?
– Audio files not suitable for technical
explanations
– No acceptance: from teachers and students
– No “unified” way to do it
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● How to do it?
– Provide audio based materials as learning
units that can be used and shared among
disciplines
– Provide an ontology based structure that
could be used to identify the relationships
between learning units
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History Lecture Philosophy Lecture
Ancient Greece
(tagged: Aristotle,
Greece, Alexander)
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● Pros
– Saves time accessing information
– From “pull” to “push”
– Makes available a new range of knowledge
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● Cons
– Lost in a “sea of information”
– Acceptance
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Questions?
by Duarte Velez Grilo
(duartegrilo@gmail.com)
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