Instruction on Demand Teaching with Podcasts Jon Luckstead

Instruction on Demand: Teaching with Podcasts Jon Luckstead TLA April 2, 2009

Teaching with Podcasts • Uses • Advantages • Challenges 2

What is podcasting? • i. Pod + Broadcast Podcast • Video + Podcasting Vodcasting 3

What is podcasting? RSS – Really Simple Syndication Internet Ti. Vo 4

Uses of Library Podcasts • Content storage and delivery – ACRL CLS Pro. Quest Innovation in College Librarianship Award Content of music CDs distributed via i. Tunes – Recordings of lectures on campus www. morainevalley. edu/libraryeventpodcasts. asp 5

Uses for Library Podcasts • Marketing – Example: Promoting a new exhibit lib. asu. edu/librarychannel/2009/02/13/ep 90_smedley 6

Uses for Library Podcasts • Library User Instruction • Advanced Organizers / Pre-labs • Class Session Recordings • Library Tours • Tutorials for applications (catalog, indexes, etc. ) • Guides (copyright, plagiarism, etc. ) 7

Types of Instruction • Library Tours Example: Audio tour of the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library www. library. uiuc. edu/learn/instruction/tours. html 8

Types of Instruction • Tutorials Example: “Academic Search Premier” Hannon Library of Southern Oregon University hannonlibrary. libsyn. com/index. php? post_id=172747 9

Types of Instruction • Guides Example: “Plagiarism” Austin Community College Libraries irtstaff. austincc. edu/jluckste/plagiarism. mp 3 “Plagiarism” podcast incorporated into a libguide at: researchguides. austincc. edu/aecontent. php? pid=28742&sid=209918 10

Advantages of Podcasting • $30 Music School $20 Podcasting Studio – Low upfront costs 11

Advantages of Podcasting • • 24/7 availability; Asynchronous learning Listen whenever and wherever Can listen repeatedly Serves auditory learners [Audio Podcasts] Can multitask while listening Flexible and portable Playback speed can be altered (Jowitt 56) 12

Advantages of Podcasting • Supports distance and hybrid classes • Supports visually challenged • Automatic delivery (RSS) • New technology is begging for it 13

Challenges of Podcasting • Technology – Obsolescence vs. Premature adoption – Alienates non-techies – Still requires great writing (Corbeil 54) (Click on the speaker to hear an example of the need for “proof listening” from “Searching the library catalogue” at library. ucol. ac. nz/main. asp? page=100) 14

Challenges of Podcasting • Audio lacks visual information • Video is tiny 15

Challenges of Podcasting • Perfectionism “The better the singer’s voice, the harder it is to believe what they are saying. So I use my faults to an advantage. ” --David Byrne 16

Challenges of Podcasting • Maintenance – Example: EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition 002 connect. educause. edu/blog/dianao/itspodmaniaeducausepocket/1654 (click on the speaker for an excerpt that shows that the podcast is out of date because it limits podcasts to audio) 17

The Future Not for school, but for life we learn. 18

Notes Corbeil, Joseph R. and Maria E. Valdes-Corbeil. “Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? ” 30. 2: 51 -58. < http: //net. educause. edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM 0726. pdf >. EDUCAUSE Quarterly Jowitt, Angela L. "Creating Communities With Podcasting. " Computers in Libraries 28. 4 (Apr. 2008): 14 -56. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Austin Community College Libraries, Austin, TX. 17 Feb. 2009 < http: //search. ebscohost. com >. Presentation handout at: irtstaff. austincc. edu/jluckste/ 19