Reference Works, Guides & Bibliographies

• Mark Glasser, Your Guide to Podcasts, Mediashift, 28 February 2007.
• Podcasting Basics,Compiled by Arden Rice and Marian G. Rogers, December 2006.
• Uses of Podcasting, Wikipedia.
• Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules For The Revolution, Creative Commons, 2006. (Good primer on what can and can't be used in podcasts, based on US copyright law but many useful pointers and tips worth considering.)
• iPods in Education, Resource pitched more at K-12 educators, but provides a good overview of many uses of iPods in education.
• OurMedia Personal Learning Center: a fantastic resource for media creators (including podcasters) with detailed explanations and guides. Of particular interest is the Audio Learning Center which has a lot of useful and practical guides to recording, creating and editing sound generally and podcasts in specific terms; also fantastic is the Open Media Directory which points of a huge range of freely reusable media (sound, music, video, etc.) which can be used in podcast creation, almost always royalty-free!
• Podcasting Phenomenon: a discussion on the development of podcasting as a professional medium for learning, 2006. (This paper is an ongoing study of the use of podcasting in the professional realm produced by IDG Global Solutions in cooperation with Apple’s European education team.)
• Patricia Deubel, "Podcasts: Improving Quality and Accessibility," T.H.E. Journal, 6/14/2007, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20818

Presentations

• Tama Leaver, 'iPodium: Student Podcasting and Participatory Pedagogies', Association of Internet Researchers Conference, October 2006, http://tama.edublogs.org/2006/10/02/ipodium-student-podcasting-and-participatory-pedagogies/.
• Tama Leaver, 'iTeach, iLearn: Student Podcasting (The Presentation)' 2006 Teaching and Learning Forum, February 2006, http://tama.edublogs.org/2006/02/03/iteach-ilearn-student-podcasting-the-presentation/.
• Mark Frydenberg's presentation at Harvard's Berkman Center http://mirror21.video.blip.tv/VideoBerkman-PodcastingAndNewMediaInEducationPartI890.mp4

Articles

• Berger, E. 2007. Podcasting in engineering education: A preliminary study of content, student attitudes, and impact. Innovate 4 (1). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=426 (accessed October 1, 2007).
• Brabazon, Tara. "Socrates in Earpods" The iPodification of Education." Fast Capitlaism, 2, 1, 2006, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/brabazon.htm (Quite a harsh review of recorded lecture technologies, but does ask important questions about how we use recorded lectures and what else we might we might do with podcasting in academic courses.)
• Brittain, Sarah, Pietrek Glowacki, Jared Van Ittersum, and Lynn Johnson, ‘Podcasting Lectures’, Educause Quarterly, 29, 3 (2006): 23-31, http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0634.asp
• Campbell, Gardner. ‘There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education’, Educause Review, 40, 6, November/December (2005): 32–47, http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0561.asp (A fairly utopian view of podcasting, but very useful in helping readers think through the many possibilities podcasting presents in both university courses and for student engagement more broadly.)
• Chan, Anthony and Lee, Mark J.W. 'An MP3 a day keeps the worries away: Exploring the use of podcasting

  to address preconceptions and alleviate pre-class anxiety amongst undergraduate information technology students', in Dirk HR Spennemann & Leslie Burr (eds), Good Practice in Practice. Proceedings of the Student Experience Conference 5-7th September ’05. Wagga Wagga, NSW: Charles Sturt University, 2005, pp. 59–71, http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/sec/papers/chan.pdf

• Frydenberg, Mark. "Principles and Pedagogy: Two P's of Podcasting in the Information Technology Classroom," in ISECON, November 2006, http://isedj.org/isecon/2006/3354/ISECON.2006.Frydenberg.pdf.
• Nash, Susan Smith. "Fighting Intrusive Thoughts Using Podcasts: A Strategy for Effective E-Learning" InSITE Informing Sciences Proceedings, June 2006, http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2006/ProcNash137.pdf.
• Thomas, Michael. 'iPods in Education:Innovations in the Implementation of Mobile Learning' The Knowledge Tree, 10, 2006, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/thomas.pdf.
• Windham, Carie. "Confessions of a Podcast Junkie" EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (May/June 2007): 50–65, http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0732.pdf. (From a student perspective, with some good examples.)

For an evolving resource on digitised lectures, including podcasting, see Lectopia's Resource Centre.

 

In the Media

• Andrew Newman, 'Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts,' The New York Times, March 1 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html?ex=1330405200&en=bf1df33bd10fa303&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

  (Describes how creating audio podcasts of book chapters can build an audience and help authors get picked up both by listeners and by publishers.)

• Lisa Mitchell, "iPods cast a wide net for learning" The Age, October 30 2006, http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/ipods-cast-a-wide-net-for-learning/2006/10/27/1161749321278.html
• Associated Press (AP), "NMSU to use iPods for distance learning" El Paso Times, January 29 2007, http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_5109002

Local Examples

• iPods @ ECU - Various projects with ECU students and academics creating and utilising media on iPods. Of particular interest (or inspiration) is their list of Current Projects. (Keep in mind that a number of the processes described involving putting podcasts online can be done at UWA via Lectopia.)
• iGeneration: Digital Communication and Participatory Culture - A Communication Studies honours course which ran in semester two, 2005, at UWA. Students created their own podcasts (podcast assessment details; example one; example two) and their podcasts were (and still are) hosted by Lectopia.
• Kate Rodgers, "Interactive Quizzes on iPods", Waxlyrical, 3 October 2006,

Other Examples

• Apple + iPods @ GCSU, Georgia College & State University; see especially their 'Course-Related iPod Projects' page for some interesting ideas on using iPods in teaching.
• Peter Schmidt, 'Using Student Podcasts in Literature Classes', Academic Commons, September 2006, http://www.academiccommons.org/ctfl/vignette/using-student-podcasts-in-literature-classes

Useful Free Tools for Creating, Editing and Receiving Podcasts

• Juice Receiver - A free tool called a 'podcatcher' which simply means a piece of software which receives and downloads podcasts' this process can be automated, ie set Juice Receiver to check for new podcasts each morning at 5am and any new podcasts in your subscribed shows should be waiting, downloaded, by 6am. Juice Receiver works on Windows, Macs and on Linux. (However, the most common 'podcatcher' is Apple's iTunes which is free to use, but not open source. iTunes does not work on Linux and as of March 2007, does not yet work properly with the the newly-released Windows Vista).
• Audacity - A free audio editing tool which allows the recording of sound files from microphones or the editing and manipulations of existing sound files. Audacity can import most audio formats and can export in a range of formats, too, including mp3 and aac. Audacity works on both Windows and Mac. Audacity also has a very useful online manual with ideas about editing sound, not just how-to instructions.
• CamStudio - This is a free screencapture tool, which allows you to record the activity on a computer screen as a video file which can then be converted to an iPod-sized video. (There is also a larger commercial package called Camtasia for a recording and editing experience with more features. (For the latest updates on CamStudio, see the CamStudio Blog.)
• Super © - A simple programme which can convert between almost any video file formats. For example, if you've created a video as windows media file (.wmv, for example) or in flash (.swf) and you want this video to play on a video iPod, with two clicks of Super you can convert from one format to another. (Only runs on Windows PCs).

 

Examples of Podcasts That Could be Created by Students

• Museum and Gallery Tours -
• Pod Plays - For example, see 'The Rich and the Rural' which mixes a 1930s RKO-style radioplay with a soapie format.
• Alternative Critical Commentaries for TV and Movies on DVD - For example, see 'The Simpsons iGeneration Podcast' which is an alternative commentary for The Simpsons episode 'Cape Feare'.

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