Podcasts and NLII_05_SpringFocusSession

North Carolina State University graduate student Sarah Smith and Rice University graduate student Anthony Potoczniak led a general session discussing what students are saying about emerging technologies and practices.  This is audio of the entire session, including the Q+A that concluded the discussion.

When Brendan and I sat down on Tuesday afternoon to interview Diana Oblinger and Cyprien Lomas, we assumed we would simply pull out sound bites ... which we did for the first introductory piece.  However, we got to thinking that one of the great advantages of podcasting is that audio that you would never normally have access to, could be made available to you in a raw form.  So, here it is ... the full interview ... no editing.

After an introduction by Diana Oblinger, Carl Berger and Cyprien Lomas ... the conference is underway.  A big part of this focus session is small group interaction and discussion.  The first breakout group brought together people to discuss reactions to the homework assignment.  Missouri Journalism School student Brendan Watson participated in one of the groups ... and recorded part of the conversation.

It's hard to get individuals at the Spring Focus Session to talk about technology. Education always comes first. That said, though, technology does play a large role in education and, obviously, a very in this conference. Brendan Watson talked to some of the session participants about what "technology" means in an educational setting, and what some cool high-tech (and low tech) tools that have been discussed throughout the conference.

And here's the second half of the lecture, featuring Jim Wolfgang, the CIO of Georgia College & State University.

This is our final podcast from the NLII Spring Focus Session in Houston.  We pulled the title for our last story from the name of the final group discussion.  The piece focuses on what some of your fellow participants are taking home with them.

I want to thank Missouri School of Journalism students Kyle Palmer and Brendan Watson for all of their hard work, and I'd also like to thank the original podcasting leader, MU faculty member Jen Reeves, for all of her assistance.

I hope you've had a chance to listen to our podcasts, and I hope this is only the beginning ...

By now, you've probably listened to a few podcasts, but you may still be wondering how podcasting technology can be used in the classroom. Missouri Journalism student Kyle Palmer asked around to get some ideas.

After lunch, participants gathered for the next general session, entitled:  How to Select and Deploy Learning Technology.  The session was split into two twenty minute halves.  The first went to Rich Baraniuk, a professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Rice University.

We all know technology is hard to get into the classroom, but getting technology into classrooms is just the beginning. Missouri School of Journalism student Kyle Palmer talks with several focus session participants about how to make technology work in the classroom.

Missouri School of Journalism student Kyle Palmer sits down with Carl Berger to talk about the results of a survey conducted before this focus session. The findings may surprise you.