Higher Ed Podcast Purposes & Examples

23rd January 2006

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Podcasting in higher education contexts can be organized into the following categories. I have included linked examples of each, more can be found on http://del.icio.us/wfryer/higheredpodcasts.

Course-Casting: Course Content Delivery, Empowering Students with asynchronous/non-interactive content, aka podcast lectures (Physics 415: Thermal and Statistical Physics by Dr Carlson at Purdue, Faculty lectures in Stanford on iTunes)
Interactive and Reflective Q&A: Dr David B. Miller’s iCube podcasts (undergrad intro psychology)
Storytelling and Public Relations: College Public Relations (Research at Chicago, Texas Tech College of Education Podcasts)
Virtual Conference/Symposium Resources: Extending a Conference or Symposium Dialog/Conversations (Duke Podcasting Symposium, UBC Podcasts, UNL Podcasts, Washington College of Law Podcasts, University of Virginia Podcasts, Podcastercon2006)
Student Projects: Permiting students to demonstrate their understanding, knowledge and skills through an original podcast (iGeneration from the Univ of Western Australia, The Teacher as Leader: An Interview with John Dewey)

Gardner Campbell’s Educause review article “There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education” is available in webpage, PDF, and mp3 audio formats, and is also an excellent resource on the pedagogy of podcasting in higher education.

If you know of other good examples not listed here, please comment and share the links! I am particularly interested in other examples of highered student project podcasts.

On this day..

Extent of a child's right to online privacy - 2008
VoiceThread Publishing Example: Safe, Powerful, Interactive - 2008
Singing "Not on the Test" - 2007
Restoring the IE7 Menu Bar - 2007
Developing blog post topics - 2007
First video podcast - 2006
Open University goes with Moodle - 2006
Letter from the Superintendent - 2006
Knights Templar - 2006
Afternoon with George Winston - 2006

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1 On January 23rd, 2006, Gardner Campbell said:

Thanks for those kind words, Wesley, and for aggregating/categorizing these resources. I’ll look forward to perusing your delicious feed as well.

Best regards!

2 On January 28th, 2006, S. Lister said:

Wesley,
I always enjoy your posts and podcasts arriving on my desktop! And now, I hope, I will be able to give something back…. I was recently introduced to a service that allows me to compile samples of podcasts so I’ve used it to put together a page where others can easily access the sample podcasts and entire episodes from the many categories you have identified above. You will find it here:
http://www.gigadial.net/public/station/23562

I like the idea of a “station” for grouping podcasts but not limiting exploration of more of the same but I must admit I wish gigadial (http://www.gigadial.com) offered more options such as a “programming” possibility where I can combine sub-topics within a station; sorting alternatives; tagging; and rating, to name a few.

Keep up the great insights, eh?
Sue