This document summarizes a webinar on introducing podcasting for educational purposes. It discusses: - Introducing the presenters, Allan Carrington and Randy Meredith, and their backgrounds in educational technology. - Setting learning outcomes around understanding the pedagogical potential of podcasting and learning to create an educational podcast. - Discussing emerging technologies like podcasting, blogging, wikis and their uses for "rich instruction, reflection, collaboration and categorization." - Providing an overview of why audio technologies are useful for education and the basic mechanics of what a podcast is and how they are distributed via RSS.

1. It’s All About the
Students
The eLearning Team
The University of Adelaide Australia
December
2011
Their engagement, their
learning, their outcomes and
their future success
Introducing Podcasting
From Pedagogy to Podagogy
Friday, 13 September 13

2. Introducing Allan
Allan is a Learning Designer with the
CLPD at the University of Adelaide and
has a background in printing, publishing,
web development and educational
multimedia. As well he has worked in
learning and teaching in the VET sector
and higher education. Allan has led
schools (courses) in Hawaii and Texas USA,
as well as Paraguay. He has taught in
communications, marketing and research,
print production and using the Internet
for education. Allan has extensive
experience in online collaboration and
facilitation.
University of Adelaide
Centre for Learning and Professional Development
Adelaide South Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8303 8085
Email: allan.carrington@adelaide.edu.au
Website:http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/about/clpdstaff/carringtona.html
Friday, 13 September 13

3. Allan Carrington
Adelaide SA
Randy Meredith
Spring Arbor MI
Where in the World are we?
Visit Randy
next trip
to USA
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4. Introducing Randy
Spring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, Michigan, USA
Telephone: +1 517 750 6647
Email: randym@arbor.edu
Website: http://www.arbor.edu
Randy Meredith is the Director of
Academic Technology and Assistant
Professor of Instructional Design and
Online Learning, at Spring Arbor
University. His major interests include
hybrid/blended course design,
educational podcasting. Randy is
pursuing a terminal degree in distance
education at Regent University, and
believes Podcasting and RSS have great
educational potential. He is also the
author of the website Podagogy.com
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5. We need some demographics
Participants in room? Born before 1982?
... Educational?
Use Internet at home? Use IM?
How many own a blog
How many:
Used a Wiki?
Have made a podcast?
Have a mobile phone? Use SMS?
Subscribed to Podcast?
Used Skype?
... Educational?
or used a blog?
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6. Overview a pedagogical framework and
characteristics for using podcasting for
education
Introduce participants to excellent online
resources to help get them started using
these technologies and provide the next
steps to begin using them.
Learning
Aims
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7. Learning Outcomes
List the reasons why podcasting has
good pedagogical potential
Use online resources to make an
educational podcast
By the time you finish this webinar you should
be able to:
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8. Emerging Technologies as
Teaching/Learning Tools
Podcasting: Rich Instruction
Blogging: Rich Reflection
Wiki: Rich Collaboration
Social Bookmarking: Rich
Categorisation
VoIP: Rich Communication
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9. Integration
Rich
Learning
Rich
Com
m
unication
Rich Collaboration
RichInstruction
Rich
Reflection
Rich Categorisation
Podcasting
VoIP:
Voice over
Internet
Protocol
Wikis Blogging
Social
Bookmarking
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10. Questions for Discussion
Tell us about how you
have used podcasting,
blogs or wikis?
Tell us about how you
would like to use these
technologies?
Any specific questions
you have about these
technologies?
Disruptive technologies often
come from outside the
mainstream. The light bulb
was not invented by the candle
industry looking to improve
output.
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11. Music to the Ears
Listening is instinctual, reading is not
Listening gets round illiteracy and
dyslexia
Listening is a mobile medium and
frees eyes and hands
“Cocktail party effect” allows us to
home in and ignore
Brains are acoustic analysers -
listening and learning go hand in hand
Clarke & Walsh
iPod
Therefore
I Learn
http://www.epic.co.uk/content/resources/white_papers/iPod.htm
The case for audio technologies in teaching and learning
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12. Why Use Educational Audio
Aural source material for analysis or reaction.
Breathe life into ideas.
For tasks which could be disruptive when
using text.
Help the learners practise skills.
Make the teaching more human
and personal.
Say things that are not so easily
expressed in print.
Encourage or motivate the learners.
http://www1.worldbank.org/disted/Teaching/Delivery/aud-01.html
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13. Influence the learners' feelings
and attitudes
Contributions from people unlikely
to write.
Voices of experts, users, clients
other learners, etc.
New ideas to learners who won’t
or can’t read
Provide necessary variety in the
learners' learning.
A trigger for group sharing of
ideas and experience
Why Use Educational Audio
http://www1.worldbank.org/disted/Teaching/Delivery/aud-01.html
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14. So What is Podcasting?
Began as audio only
“Casting” refers to the publishing or
distribution method
Uses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) -
scripting that pushes file to subscriber
Went mainstream when Apple built in
capability into iTunes (free software for
PC and Mac)
Now we have Enhanced and Vodcasting
“Podcasting and Vodcasting in Higher Education How
Disruptive Will They Be” by Robin Goode
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/16/
podcasting_and_vodcasting_in_higher.htm
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15. Has anyone heard a bad
podcast? Please give details as
to why you thought so.
Has anyone heard a podcast/
educational audio they
thought was really good? Why
did you think so.
Has anyone got an example of
good pedagogy for using
audio? Please give us details.
Questions for Discussion
Disruptive technologies often
come from outside the
mainstream. The light bulb
was not invented by the candle
industry looking to improve
output.
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16. Pedagogical Framework
Context
Connect with prior learning,
connect with learning objectives,
establish relevance, provide
advance organizers
Content
Present high level overview,
clearly structured (mapped to
outcomes), small “chunks”, enable
student to create a cognitive
“map” of the content
(relationships, sequence,
precedence, dependencies, etc.)
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17. Review
Using “audio bullet points”
Connect
Reflective assignment (personal reflection -
journal/blog entry)
Reflective assignment (collaborative assessment -
discussion posting and responses)
Next steps (online course resources: self assessment,
supplemental readings, case studies, problems, transcript
of podcast, webliographies, bibliographies, media, etc.)
Connect to assigned reading
Advance connection to next topic in sequence
Pedagogical Framework
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18. Five Steps to Designing
Podcasts that Teach
1.Select appropriate content
2.Determine your instructional goal
3.Design your content
4.Produce your podcast
5.Incorporate the podcast into your course
http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/teachAndLearn
podcasting@university of wisconsin - madison
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19. Getting Started
Easy first steps would be interview style
Download, play with/use Audio software
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Upbeat, informal spontaneous genre
with humour - not a broadcasting model
Publish to free podcast sites
Odeo http://www.odeo.com
Pod-O-Matic http://www.podomatic.com
Publish to iTunes
Download & Read Podcast Creation Guide: http://images.apple.com/education/
solutions/podcasting/pdf/PodcastCreationGuide.pdf
SwitchPod http://www.switchpod.com
OurMedia http://www.ourmedia.org
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20. References
Allan Carrington
http://del.icio.us/AllanADL/edayz290906
University of Adelaide
Centre for Learning and Professional Development
Adelaide South Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8303 8085
Email: allan.carrington@adelaide.edu.au
Website:http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/about/clpdstaff/carringtona.html
Academic Rigour is Del.icio.usly Simple
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this addressSpring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, Michigan, USA
Telephone: +1 517 750 6647
Email: randym@arbor.edu
Website: http://www.arbor.edu
Randy Meredith
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