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Students already use podcasts to review lectures, listen to audio materials and share their own reports, field notes and music compositions. It’s part of a trend in higher education toward delivering class materials that are more timely, customized and engaging.
Lynne O’Brien, director of Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology

Educators involved in eLearning are rediscovering the power of the spoken word by utilizing new technologies to communicate with students outside the traditional classroom. Podcasting is a new medium that enables you to easily incorporate on-demand audio recordings into your curriculum.
University of Wisconsin podcasting website

A great podcast, like an engaging web site, can increase class attendance by sparking student interest to lean more about the subject matter.
Michael Rappa, North Carolina State University

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players, and 29 percent of them have downloaded podcasts.

This is a societal change, a change in the way people relate and communicate with each other and that, dear professor, is very much about pedagogy!
Steve Sloan, Information Technology Consultant, San Jose State University

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Podcast 6: What Kind of Podcast Should I Create?

The sixth podcast in our Hear2Cast podcast series addresses the question "What kind of podcast should I create?" It provides a number of possible podcasting approaches for an educational environment and also describes how to efficiently and effectively create these podcasts. To listen to this podcast, click the Posts button on the Gcast player and select Podcast 6 from the list. You can also download this podcast (9.9 MB). (Right-click on the link and select "Save Target As...")

Show notes:

  • Instructing with podcasts
    • Course lectures
    • Mini lessons
    • Content reviews
    • Activities
  • Tips and suggestions for planning and scripting podcasts
    • Decide your learning objectives
    • Consider length
    • Start with an outline
    • Ordering (review and revise)
    • Trial run outloud
    • adjust outline
    • Record
    • Audio editing

The following music, from PodSafe Audio has been used in this podcast:
John Korbel - Bourbon Street Taps

posted by JenD at 5:12 PM

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