Week+4


 * Podcasting Team Activity **

**Part I: **

v By Friday, identify and explain at least three intended outcomes for our podcasting discussion activity

v Next, create a list of possible roles for each team member for this activity

**Part II: **

v By Monday, add a couple of follow-up discussion question(s) and/or key points you want to cull out of the discussion: What kind of challenges might the team face presenting a lesson on Podcasting? What are some strategies the team could use we anticipate the challenges of a Podcasting lesson, or activity?

v By Monday, identify at least two strategies the team will use while facilitating the discussion

Part I
So to be clear, we are presenting to the class how to use podcasting in the classroom? I think one thing that we definitely need to have are examples - if only for us - so that we can show or list uses. Anyone find any good resources yet? Maybe we can check out this website: Classroom 2.0. (Tom) Tom, I would imagine presenting to the class the positive aspects of using podcasts in the classroom would be a very good way to go. I am thinking this would make sense for everyone and our discussion would highlight the positive and effective use of such a tool. www.apple.com/education does a nice job show users how to integrate podcasting into the classroom. (wendy)


 * Three outcomes:**


 * 1) time: the student can download the podcast Listen to it in any place by ipod (Ola)
 * 2) exchange the knoledge and experince: allow the student to show other thier knowledge about any think (Ola)
 * 3) improve relationship: improve relationship between the student who make podcast and how make feedback or listener (Ola)
 * 4) understanding the technology - how to create and post podcasts (Tom)
 * 5) potential uses in the classroom - why use podcasts as opposed to other types of media; who uses podcasts (student or teacher creations?) (Tom)
 * 6) Outcome #1:Understand how podcasts are beneficial learning tools-powerful tools for teaching and learning as participants learn podcast fundamentals (wendy)
 * 7) Outcome #2 Understand how students can use podcasts- writing scripts, recording, editing, producing, and publishing(wendy)
 * 8) Outcome #3 Understand how teachers can use podcasts- professional development, sharing research podcasts with peers, tapping into learning styles, engaging learners (wendy)
 * 9) explain why podcasting is a valuable instructional tool (Matthew)
 * 10) demonstrate how technology can be used to enhance learning (Matthew)
 * 11) examine how podcasting can benefit students with poor reading skills (Matthew)
 * 12) Matthew- I agree with you that highlighting why podcasting is a valuable instructional tool is a good way to go. Do you have any specific ways in mind that we could demonstrate how podcast technology can be used to enhance learning? That is a great idea, but I am wondering how we show this? Your third outcome is also very insightful. I would like to find research that would indicate how podcasting can benefit students with poor reading skills. Are you familiar with any? (Wendy)
 * 13) I think everyone agrees that we need to be able to show the benefits of podcasting as an e-learning tool. (Marnelyn)
 * 14) We also need to be able to demonstrate how podcasting is generated by students and its functionality. (Marnelyn)
 * 15) Wendy, I agree that we can also showcase who podcasting can be used for professional development and teacher interaction. (Marnelyn)

**Create a list of possible roles for each team member for this activity:**


 * 1) the students have to adjest thier computers to automatically capture school broadcasts that will keep them in tracking what is new and the get newest school announcements. (Ola)
 * 2) tech support - someone to create a sample podcast, about podcasting or how to create a podcast perhaps (Tom)
 * 3) discussion facilitator - person to start the conversation off - with questions, prompts, or activities (Tom)
 * 4) resource manager - someone to find articles or other types of media to present content on podcasting (Tom)
 * 5) responder - someone to continue the conversation that the facilitator begins (Tom)
 * 6) content creator - maybe we could have a slide show or something similar (Tom)
 * 7) researcher (Tom) - obviously some of these can be combined or eliminated totally once we have a better idea of what we want
 * 8) Podcast discussion facilitator would have the background knowledge to lead the discussion and supplement participant understanding. (wendy)
 * 9) Podcast resource manager would handle technical support and help desk questions. (wendy)
 * 10) Podcast coach would provide continual professional development on uses of podcasting in education. (wendy)
 * So, Wendy, are you just thinking that whatever week we present we keep our team roles for that week and designate new discussion responsibilities? I think that is a good idea and should work well to keep things simple and organized. (Tom)
 * 1) Tom, I am thinking it would keep things a bit simpler. Our topic requires a bit of research, (at least for me!) and however we can keep the additional learning curve limited would be great. What does everyone else think? Does any of us have any particular skills in regard to podcasting or previous experience? (wendy)

**Part II**
Challenges

** When it comes to podcasting in general- what do we want our participants of the discussion or our students to take away from the discussion? What will our big idea be? (wendy) ** I think a challenge right now is our collective knowledge on podcasting. I don't know much, and it seems that we all could read some more on podcasting - whether how to do it or how to use it. Maybe we should all spend a couple of days researching this topic and come back with ideas we want to focus on. How does that sound? Perhaps, we could start a list of articles here that we read so no one doubles up? I have linked some below from an ERIC search that I did. They are all full text, but you must be signed into the JHU library to access them. There are plenty more available as well, but these looked like as good as any to start with. I will read the first one listed - "Talk the Talk." (Tom)

Tom, I think this is a great way to get us all on the same page. Thank you for doing the research to pull the articles together. I am interested in # 4 and # 5, and I will report back. (wendy)

I will read article 3. (Marnelyn)


 * 1) Talk the Talk: Learner-Generated Podcasts as Catalysts for Knowledge Creation
 * 2) Student use of and perspectives regarding podcasted lectures: Survey pilot
 * 3) Podcasting and the Long Tail
 * 4) Use of audio podcast in K-12 and higher education: a review of research topics and methodologies
 * 5) History To Go: Why I Teach with IPods
 * 6) Build a Better Podcast
 * 7) Audio and video podcasts of lectures for campus-based students: production and evaluation of student us

1- A lot of time / effort to produce need to update regular 2- Technology – a lot of student are not able to use 3- it not necessarily suitable for all learning styles

** 1.Explaining why podcasting is a necessary educational tool (Matthew) ** ** Once we establish why podcasting is a necessary tool, let's decide what tasks will our students be doing- this really leads us to step 2 below: (wendy) ** ** 2. Finding an interactive podcasting lesson that is engaging to the other students in the classroom (The team may need to find or to create a lesson that will help our classmates with their e-learning projects) (Matthew) **Do we want to have them try creating a podcast? Is that too hard/too much? I am not sure how it might work since we don't know everyone's technology access. (Tom)I am wondering if creating the podcast is actually too much to do. I am not sure. We certainly need to narrow down our direction. Let's vote of the specific outcomes we are expecting by the end of our project. (wendy) Hey team. Has anyone taken a look at Podomatic? The link below is a great example of what can be put together. (wendy)[] I think it would be great if the final outcome is having the students create a podcast of any topic, even if it's a simple one. (Marnelyn) 1- How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step Tutorial [] (ola) [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrBbczS9I0] (ola)

2- free podcasting website

[] (ola)