Podcast for Professors

The Regional Educational Technology Center at Fordham University produces a podcast cohosted by Kathy King, Barbara Heuer, and Mark Gura called Podcast for Professors. The podcast “brings information from instructional technology to distance education, from podcasting and vlogging to mobile learning, and from classrooms to research! …The series hosts provide tips, news, interviews, and resources about technology in higher education for busy professors.” The first episode aired 4/30/2206. You can subscribe by entering http://www.podcastforteachers.org/pfpfeed.xml into your podcatcher. If you are using iTunes, copy and paste the URI above into the dialog box that you get when you go to Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast.

Podcasting & vodcasting in Higher Ed

A November 2005 blog post by Denis Saulnier of Harvard Business School briefly describes the podcasting initiatives at:

• Duke University
• Stanford University
• Brown University
• University of Michigan Dental School
• University of Washington
• Princeton University
• Indiana University

Podcasting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

A site designed for faculty with information about podcasting:

• what it is
• how to use it in teaching and learning
• samples of effective uses in education
• how to create and deliver podcasts

Classroom Audio Podcasting

An article written by Wesley A. Fryer highlights the benefits of podcasting (in K-12):

1. Podcasting is cheap
2. Podcasting invites a global audience
3. Audio podcasting encourages no-frills communication
4. Podcasting is digital storytelling
5. Podcasting provides a window into the classroom
6. Podcasting involves few privacy concerns
7. Podcasting can educate about copyright
8. Podcasting can be interactive
9. Podcasting can be creative
10. Podcasting can be fun!

Podcast Academy

Boston University hosted a Podcast Academy on April 28 and 29. Archives of the event (handouts and recordings of presentations) are accessible at http://www.bu.edu/com/podcast/archive.html

Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts from Purdue

The Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University produces a podcast called “Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts” as part of the materials for the first-year biology core lab modules. The 5-10 minute episodes are reviews and previews of upcoming labs for 1st-year students. They are intended to help students make the connections between what they will cover and what they have covered. The episodes include video clips, quirky soundtracks and cartoon characters.

To subscribe, go to:

BIOL 136 Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts

BIOL 137 Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts

BIOL 138 Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts

BIOL 139 Rewind/Flash-Forward Podcasts

A 15-minute podcast of how the podcasts are made can be downloaded from http://www.bio.purdue.edu/mt/feeds/pod_pedagogy/archive/2006/03/rewindflash-for_1.html

More information about this project can be found at Purdue News and Pod Pedagogy.

Harvard Business School’s IdeaCast

Harvard Business School Publishing started doing bi-weekly podcasts of approximately twenty minutes called IdeaCast. Each episode covers two or three topics in the form of interviews or news briefs.

Recent episodes featured the following topics:

• Marketing to Avatars
• How to Live in to Your New Promotion
• How to Manage the Alpha Male
• Harnessing the Strategic Power of Trust

You can subscribe to the podcast by entering: http://hbsp2.libsyn.com/rss into your podcatcher.

CETL Podnovations at Georgia College & State University

The GC&SU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is offering a series of podcasts on different issues of interest to faculty in higher education called Podnovations. The episodes are generally less than 10 minutes and include faculty members sharing ideas of what they do in their classes.

Some interesting podcasts offered are:

• Teaching with Technology
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Assessment Tips
• Tips for Generating Discussion

You can subscribe by:

1. right-clicking on the link for a particular podcast,
2. selecting Copy Link Location,
3. opening iTunes,
4. pasting the link location into the dialog box that appears under Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast…

EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition

EDUCAUSE Pocket Edition is an "audio series that introduces popular technologies to non-technologists in higher education."

The episodes so far are:

• Wikipedia
• Clickers
• Podcasting in the Classroom
• It's Pod Mania!
• Invasion of the iPods 

Subscribe by entering into podcatcher: http://connect.educause.edu/folksonomy/educause_pocket_edition/feed

iPods for medical diagnosis

I was flipping channels tonight when I came across this scene. A doctor is listening to Andrea Bocelli on his iPod with his eyes closed. The iPod is plugged into speakers and the sound is concert-hall quality. It turns out that he is in a locker-room. Three med students walk in. The doctor makes them listen to three sound bites. They are recordings of the sound made by blood vessels around a patient’s heart. He wants them to figure out which reveals abnormality and where the doctors should operate to find a tumor. After listening to the files several times, one of the students hears an extra flapping sound…

This scene would make a very good commercial for Apple and its iPod. But it also shows a great use of MP3 players for educational purposes.