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Slide 1: Podcasting for Teaching and Learning NITLE workshop 2007
Slide 2: Plan for the session 1. Background 2. Podcasting from start to finish 3. Pedagogical issues and cases
Slide 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…”
Slide 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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Slide 8: Podcasting background Context: the player • iPods and others • Ease of use • “net.gen” • Fetish • History: Walkman and convergence
Slide 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….”
Slide 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 2005)
Slide 11: Podcasting background Context: social demand for audio • File-sharing persists • Web audio grows • Net.gen again
Slide 12: Podcasting background Context: did copyright policy spur podcasting? Doc Searls on CARP: “As it developed, Internet radio didn't die [in the early 2000s]. Instead, what happened was the growth of talk radio on the Net, mostly in the form of podcasting...”
Slide 13: Podcasting background “… No doubt an unintended consequence of the CARP ruling (creating high bureaucratic and financial costs for broadcasting RIAA-sanctioned music on the Net) was the growth of podcasting.” -Doc Searls, March 2007 ( http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/03/04#riaaMoves )
Slide 14: Podcasting background Context: the file format, or “I want my MP3” • Decent quality • Workable size • Portable • Net.gen yet again
Slide 15: Podcasting background Context: easier, popular tools for playing sound: hardware • iPods • Laptops • Desktops
Slide 16: Podcasting background Context: easier tools for recording sound: hardware • Mikes • Phones • MP3 player plugins
Slide 17: Podcasting background Context: easier tools for recording and editing sound • Increasing number of applications – Garageband, iMovie – Moviemaker – Audacity
Slide 18: Podcasting background Context: the Apple effect – 2001 January: Apple unleashes iTunes – 2001 October: “ “ iPod – 2002 Windows compatible iTunes launched
Slide 19: Podcasting background Context: easier tools for distribution: syndication • Really Simple Syndication, RSS • Free, open standards (XML) • Attached to blogs • Added to news media
Slide 20: Podcasting background Protopodcasting • Web audio • Audioblogging • phoneblogging
Slide 21: Podcasting background Protopodcasting • Web audio • Audioblogging • phoneblogging (Orson Welles)
Slide 22: Podcasting background Mainstream media leaps in • BBC • NPR ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_direc ) • Public radio in general (http:// www.publicradiofan.com/podcasts.html)
Slide 23: Podcasting 101 Neologism tracking • godcasting • nanocasting • podfading • • • • • vlogging podsafe podspamming podvertising porncasting
Slide 24: Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: • Composition process
Slide 25: Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: •Finding and downloading the stuff
Slide 26: Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting: •Hosting and maintaining the goods
Slide 27: Structure of podcasting: • Altogether now
Slide 28: Podcasting 101 Structure of podcasting, in other words • The sound file • Laptop, desktop, mobile device, phone • Editor • Compressor • Host
Slide 29: Podcasting 101 What is this Syndication?
Slide 30: Podcasting 101 Syndication example: Berkeley Science Groks http://www.groks.net/
Slide 31: Podcasting 101 …where you find: http://www.groks.net/groks.rss
Slide 32: Podcasting 101 …which, in your aggregator, automagically yields: http://www.archive.org/download
Slide 33: Podcasting 101 Syndication, therefore aggregation Readers for a variety of platforms: • Bloglines • NetNewsWire • Newsgator
Slide 34: Podcasting 101 Syndication, therefore podcatchers • Juice • Songbird • Odeo • iTunes
Slide 35: Podcasting 101 iPod meets iTunes for podcasts
Slide 36: Podcasting 101 • Syndication is optional for playing (a mere file folder)
Slide 37: Pedagogy of podcasting How does this connect with teaching and learning? • Liberal arts pedagogies • Affordances • Cases + exploration
Slide 38: Pedagogy of podcasting Classic digital pedagogy: timeshifting • In- and out of class content • Attendance issue • Student-driven • PS: the Betamax case (1984)
Slide 39: Pedagogy of podcasting Classic digital pedagogy: repeatability • Scrubbing • Focus • Student-driven
Slide 40: Pedagogy of podcasting New forms: profcasting • Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry • Duke: Classroom recording
Slide 41: Pedagogy of podcasting Profcasting • Mary Washington University: Gardner Campbell, English • Duke: Course content dissemination
Slide 42: 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.”
Slide 43: Pedagogy of podcasting Studentcasting • Voice • Individual or teambased • Constructivism Response composition “As part of the culmination of the seminar, I recorded student readings of Donne’s work for later distribution as podcasts.”
Slide 44: Pedagogy of podcasting Content podcasting on campus • Language lessons by iPod (Middlebury College) • IT updates (Lafayette College ITS Coffee Break)
Slide 45: Pedagogy of podcasting Student program podcasting on campus • War News Radio (Swarthmore College)
Slide 46: Pedagogy of podcasting Campus program podcasting • Language Lab Unleashed (Oberlin College)
Slide 47: Pedagogy of podcasting Campus podcasting • Allegheny College http://webtools.allegheny.edu/podcast/ • Bowdoin College http:// www.bowdoin.edu/podcasts/ • Colgate University • Layafette College https://ww2.lafayette.edu/~soapbox/podcast • Swarthmore College http://acad.swarthmore.edu/podcast/
Slide 48: Pedagogy of podcasting Focus on content • Literary texts • Oral history • Critical phrasing • • • • • Foreign language Music History Literature Lab sciences
Slide 49: 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
Slide 50: Pedagogy of podcasting Podcasts and research • Public intellectual – Out of the Past – Engines of Our Ingenuity – In Our Time – University Channel (Napoleon 101)
Slide 51: Pedagogy of podcasting Instrumental to pedagogy: enhance other media • Handouts: Allegheny College, Gothcast
Slide 53: Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media Middlebury College, Barbara Ganley Podcasting with… • Blogging • Digital storytelling • Photography • Study abroad
Slide 54: Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media Beth Harris, Art History, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY Podcasting with… • Blogging • Flickr • Conversations
Slide 55: Pedagogy of podcasting Enhance other media • Commentary on digital video – Example: Battlestar Galactica DVD to Web
Slide 56: Pedagogy of podcasting Instrumental: enhance other media • Apple: “enhanced podcasting”
Slide 57: Pedagogy of podcasting Influences on other social media • Podcasting and videoblogging
Slide 58: Pedagogy of podcasting Mixing and mashups
Slide 59: Pedagogy of podcasting Mixing and mashups • Long historical antecedents • Constructivism • Copyright • Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006)
Slide 60: Pedagogy of podcasting Commentary on primary and secondary sources • Merrymount College, Artmobs
Slide 61: Pedagogy of podcasting Podcasts and questions for research • Information literacy • Questions of access • Archival problem • Editing and sampling challenges • Search
Slide 62: Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues • “podsafe” • Public domain • DiY (Garageband)
Slide 63: Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues : content sources • Freesound - short sound clips
Slide 64: 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
Slide 65: 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
Slide 66: Podcasting: other issues Copyright issues: mashups • Negativland • Some Assembly Required
Slide 67: Podcasting: other issues Finding podcasts • http://audio.weblogs.com/ • iPodder • Odeo
Slide 68: Podcasting: other issues Finding podcasts • Podcast Alley • Podcast Network • Podcast News
Slide 69: Podcasting: other issues Searching podcasts • Podscope • Podzinger
Slide 70: Podcasting: other issues More emergent issues • Collaborative composition • Social software • Editing from the Web?
Slide 71: Podcasting: other issues • Audio comments •(http://napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com/)
Slide 72: Podcasting: other issues Social podcasts • http://waxxi.us/interactive.html • Podserve http://www.pod-serve.com
Slide 73: 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.
Slide 74: 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/PodcastOnThe
Slide 75: Resources Podcasts • Educause Learning Initiative, “It’s Pod Mania!” Educause Pocket Edition (November 2005). http://connect.educause.edu/blog/dianao/it_s . • Wired Webmonkey tutorial
Slide 76: Resources NITLE • Website, workshops, research • http://nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory/podc • http://apps.nitle.org/blog/index.php?cat=41