The document discusses how podcasts can enhance student learning experiences. It notes that podcasts are digital audio or video files that can be easily created and uploaded online for downloading. The document outlines how podcasts can be used to record lectures, student reflections and interviews, course updates, and introduce new subject areas. It also discusses how podcasts align with how today's students, who prefer selecting their own audio-visual content, learn best. The document provides student quotes supporting how creating podcasts allows for self-expression, interaction, and portfolio building while fostering reflective and social learning processes.

1. Enhancement of Student’s
Learning Experience with
Podcasts
by Mélanie Morrissette

2. Introduction to Podcasts
• Series of digital media files, either in audio,
video or both.
• Podcasting = Ipod + broadcasting
• Easily created
• It can be uploaded online
and downloaded onto a
computer, Ipod or Iphone.

3. Showcase of a podcast

4. How Podcast can be use for
teaching and learning?
• Record lectures
• Learner created reflection and
interviews
• News or course related-updates
• Introduction to new subject areas

5. “Our task here is primarily about
understanding our learners, embracing
their tools and trying to speak their
language”.
George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger

6. Understanding our learners
• Youtube generation
• Spend more time on their computer as
compared to watching TV
• Prefer to select the content they are watching
• Respond better to audio-visual material

7. Podcast as a learning
process

8. Learning is a social process
• The podcast (unlike a paper) is
made for an audience.
• Makes them engaged and
competitive.
• Prepare them for the future
workplace: produce content for
an audience not for themselves.

9. Learning is reflective
“Knowledge set free enables dynamic, adaptive
and personalized experience”
“Shifting from Knowing Knowledge” n.d., para. 11
• Students enjoy the opportunity to share what
they know about a topic in a way that permits
them to construct knowledge rather than
simply report it.

10. Connectivism
• Sg New Wave: Our Movement in Film
• They can connect with their peers and
network with older students and alumni
• Some of their podcasts get comments
from internet users - helps to establish
new connections
• Sg New Wave receives no less than half
a millions hits in a month: good for their
portfolio

11. Affordances of Podcast
• Easy access resource
• Presence & Self-Expression
• Creation of new content
• Foster interaction
• Contributes to the student’s portfolio and
online presence

12. Quotes from students
• “When you are communicating with
audio visual content, I realize that I
have to be aware of my audience,
who am I trying to reach with my
podcast” Winona
• “I think that doing Podcast are not
only an enjoyable experience but at
the same time, it gives us a chance to
express ourselves better with visuals
and music” Winnie

13. Quotes from students
• “ I’ve learned that movies go deeper than just
show and tell. A good director’s mise-en-scene
is full of metaphors, it is up to us to figure it
out” Fadly
• “ I think using Podcast is a fun and unique tool
to communicate with your audience. As humans,
some of us are visual learners while other learn
by listening. Hence rather than using Powerpoint
slides which may be normal and plain, podcast
allows us to enhance our presentation and
increase the interest among the audience to
listen to what we want to say. Therefore podcast
is a effective tool of communication.” Ain

14. Thank you!