Podcasting

We've concluded this round of podcasts from CNI's Spring 2008 Task Force Meeting.

This series of recordings included interviews with (click on the name to hear podcast):

Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He spoke to us from the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997.

Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX and Professor of History at Michigan State University. Our conversation was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota where Mark co-presented the session, "Digital Humanities Centers: Models, Missions, and Challenges".

The ten most widely read articles from last year's online edition of EDUCAUSE Review focused on faculty and students, campus services and procedures, and both future and current issues facing higher education IT.

In case you missed them in 2007:

1. Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do?
Patricia McGee and Veronica Diaz

EDUCAUSE Now is a new monthly audio podcast that covers news, resources, people, and events related to IT in higher education. The premier episode, launched last week, focuses on topics such as future learning, peer-to-peer file sharing and big broad band, the help desk in higher education IT, and more. Listen now or subscribe to the EDUCAUSE Now RSS feed.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Discovery Tools on blogging, podcasting, Net Generation, and learning spaces are now available to non-ELI members.

ELI Discovery Tools help people move ideas into action on campus by equipping them with the concepts and practical guidance to advance their goals, whether it’s a technology implementation, faculty or staff workshop, or any other teaching and learning project. “ELI Discovery Tools focus on student learning and are designed to save you time in creating professional development events, understanding and applying technology, and gathering student/faculty input,” said Julie Little, ELI Interim Director.

This 29-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Diane Zorn, Course Director, School of Arts & Letters, York University in a session titled "Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses."

The session abstract:

This session will cover lessons learned and best practices for creating highly interactive, student-centered, rich-media online courses with customizable and mobile learning using Mediasite video streaming and video and audio podcasting. It will include a tour of a course Web site, 10 principles for good practice for innovative online education, and a course design toolkit.

Steve Brady, a professor at Penn State, chronicles some ideas about podcasting and offers some insights into student produced podcasts in his presentation recorded at the Supply Chain Management Educators' Conference. A PDF of his paper and supporting slides are also available.

Community Resources    

http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Web%2B2.0    

Articles:    

Imagining Tomorrow's Future Today
Art St. George and the 2007 EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 107–127
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0765.asp  

Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do?
Patricia McGee and Veronica Diaz
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 5 (September/October 2007): 28–41
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0751.asp    

Starting this month, we are offering schools a chance to deliver audio to the masses and to the classes.  Every school will be able to store all MP3's on their own server while delivery of on-demand and podcasting is delivered by Blogamp U.   For regular podcasts, up to 10 courses, we will be making our system available at no charge for the first semester.  For more information, please contact us. 

 

Linda Herkenhoff, associate professor of quantitative analysis and organizational behavior Graduate School of Business, Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, creatively uses podcasts to teach quantitative methods in Business. She creates short (10 min max) vodcasts (video podcasts) on topics that she knows are very difficult for her students to grasp during normal class presentations. Hosted in her course web site, students can retrieve and repetitively review the files until the concepts become clear. She also asks students to create short podcasts teaching the basic concepts and methods to "their grandmothers,” therefore using very simple, layperson's language. Student reviews of both strategies have been very positive. Full article available: http://campustechnology.com/articles/41720_3/

Podcast coverage of the closing general session from the 2007 Western Regional Conference in San Francisco, California. The panel consists of :

Peter Beyersdorf, Assistant Professor, San Jose State University

BJ Fogg, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University

Nancy Mackin, Adjunct Professor, The University of British Columbia

Sandra Rotenberg, Access Services Librarian, Solano Community College

Our moderator is John C. Ittelson, Professor, Director, California State University, Monterey Bay

Social software has created exciting new dynamic possibilities for teaching and learning. What are the uses of wikis, blogs, podcasts, and the like, and how is academia incorporating them into teaching? This faculty panel will address social software and pedagogy while sharing their experiences from the point of choosing a software, implementing it, and assessing its value to the learning process.
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