The document discusses the history and rise of podcasting and its potential uses for teaching and learning. It provides background on when the term "podcasting" was coined and how the necessary technologies like MP3 players and audio software made it possible. It then covers various pedagogical uses like recording lectures, student projects, language lessons and enhancing other media. Challenges discussed include copyright and finding appropriate content.

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

2. Plan for the session Background Podcasting from start to finish Pedagogical issues and cases

3. 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 )

4. Podcasting background How old is the term? February 12, 2004: “… all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting ? GuerillaMedia?” (Ben Hammersley, The Guardian )

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8. Podcasting background Context: the player iPods and others Ease of use “ net.gen” Fetish History: Walkman and convergence

9. Podcasting background 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….”

10. Podcasting background 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 )

11. Podcasting background Context: social demand for audio File-sharing persists Web audio grows Net.gen again

12. Podcasting background Context: the file format, or “I want my MP3” Decent quality Workable size Portable Net.gen yet again

13. Podcasting background Context: easier, popular tools for playing sound: hardware iPods Laptops Desktops

14. Podcasting background Context: easier tools for recording sound: hardware Mikes Phones MP3 player plugins

15. Podcasting background Increasing number of applications Garageband, iMovie Moviemaker Audacity Context: easier tools for recording and editing sound

16. Podcasting background Context: the Apple effect 2001 January: Apple unleashes iTunes 2001 October: “ “ iPod 2002 Windows compatible iTunes launched

17. Podcasting background Context: easier tools for distribution: syndication R eally S imple S yndication, RSS Free, open standards (XML) Attached to blogs Added to news media

18. Podcasting background How old is the term? February 12, 2004: … all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting ? GuerillaMedia? (Ben Hammersley, The Guardian )

19. Podcasting background Protopodcasting Web audio Audioblogging phoneblogging (Orson Welles)

20. Podcasting background 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 )

21. Podcasting 101 Neologism tracking godcasting nanocasting podfading vlogging podsafe podspamming podvertising porncasting

22. Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: Composition process

23. Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: Finding and downloading the stuff

24. Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: Hosting and maintaining the goods

25. Structure of podcasting: Altogether now

26. Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting, in other words The sound file Laptop, desktop, mobile device, phone Editor Compressor Host

27. Podcasting 101 What is this Syndication?

28. Podcasting 101 Syndication example: Berkeley Science Groks http:// www.groks.net /

29. Podcasting 101 … where you find: http:// www.groks.net/groks.rss

30. Podcasting 101 … which, in your aggregator, automagically yields: http://www.archive.org/download/groks190/groks101905_64kb.mp3

31. Podcasting 101 Syndication, therefore aggregation Readers for a variety of platforms: Bloglines NetNewsWire Newsgator

32. Podcasting 101 Syndication, therefore podcatchers Juice Songbird Odeo

33. Podcasting 101 iPod meets iTunes for podcasts

34. Podcasting 101 Syndication is optional for playing (a mere file folder)

35. Pedagogy of podcasting How does this connect with teaching and learning? Liberal arts pedagogies Affordances Cases + exploration

36. Pedagogy of podcasting Classic digital pedagogy: timeshifting In- and out of class content Attendance issue Student-driven PS: the Betamax case (1984)

37. Pedagogy of podcasting Classic digital pedagogy: repeatability Scrubbing Focus Student-driven

38. Pedagogy of podcasting New forms: profcasting Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry Duke: Classroom recording

39. Pedagogy of podcasting Profcasting Mary Washington University: Gardner Campbell, English Duke: Course content dissemination

40. Pedagogy of podcasting “ 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.”

41. Pedagogy of podcasting 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.”

42. Pedagogy of podcasting Content podcasting on campus Language lessons by iPod (Middlebury College)

43. Pedagogy of podcasting Student program podcasting on campus War News Radio (Swarthmore College)

44. Pedagogy of podcasting Campus program podcasting Language Lab Unleashed (Oberlin College)

45. Pedagogy of podcasting 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/

46. Pedagogy of podcasting Focus on content Literary texts Oral history Critical phrasing Foreign language Music History Literature Lab sciences

47. Pedagogy of podcasting Podcasts and research Duke: Field recording Trudi Abel, “Digital Durham and the New South” (Duke University, 2006) New area for podcasting: information literacy

48. Pedagogy of podcasting Podcasts and research Public intellectual Out of the Past Engines of Our Ingenuity In Our Time University Channel (Napoleon 101)

49. Pedagogy of podcasting Instrumental to pedagogy: enhance other media Handouts: Allegheny College, Gothcast

51. Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media Middlebury College, Barbara Ganley Podcasting with… Blogging Digital storytelling Photography Study abroad

52. Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media Beth Harris, Art History, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY Podcasting with… Blogging Flickr Conversations

53. Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media Commentary on digital video Example: Battlestar Galactica DVD to Web

54. Pedagogy of podcasting Instrumental: enhance other media Apple: “enhanced podcasting”

55. Pedagogy of podcasting Influences on other social media Podcasting and videoblogging

56. Pedagogy of podcasting Mixing and mashups

57. Pedagogy of podcasting Mixing and mashups Long historical antecedents Constructivism Copyright Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006)

58. Pedagogy of podcasting Commentary on primary and secondary sources Merrymount College, Artmobs

59. Pedagogy of podcasting Podcasts and questions for research Information literacy Questions of access Archival problem Editing and sampling challenges Search

60. Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues “ podsafe” Public domain DiY (Garageband)

61. Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues : content sources Freesound - short sound clips

62. Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues: content sources Transom - downloadable shows and resources Disquiet - archive of links to ambient and electronic mp3s Amazon's free downloads

63. Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues: content sources Garageband.com - indie music hosting iCompositions - free downloads, discussion for Garageband Magnatune - not free, but inexpensive, and pays artists

64. Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues: mashups Negativland Some Assembly Required

65. Podcasting: other issues Finding podcasts http:// audio.weblogs.com / iPodder Odeo

66. Podcasting: other issues Finding podcasts Podcast Alley Podcast Network Podcast News

67. Podcasting: other issues Searching podcasts Podscope Podzinger

68. Podcasting: other issues More emergent issues Collaborative composition Social software Editing from the Web?

69. Podcasting: other issues Audio comments ( http:// napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com / )

70. Podcasting: other issues Social podcasts http://waxxi.us/interactive.html Podserve http://www.pod-serve.com

71. 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.

72. 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

73. 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 . Wired Webmonkey tutorial

74. Resources NITLE Website, workshops, research http://nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory/podcasting http://apps.nitle.org/blog/index.php?cat=41