AN INTRODUCTION TO PODCASTING
Shopping for the right tools to create and listen to
podcasts can give you a headache. Learning about what kind
of hardware and software you should have if you want to
create and publish high quality podcasts can give you an
even bigger headache. Regardless, podcasting for educational
purposes is alive and well primarily because this technology
has greatly reduced the cost to produce high quality audio
presentations and make them ubiquitous online.
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WHO'S ON THE PODCASTING PATHWAY?
There are lots of examples of educational podcasting
practices from institutions across the county.
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HOW UIS MAKES PODCASTS
Since the Fall 2005 semester, when the University of
Illinois at Springfield’s (UIS) Multimedia Education and
Production (MEP) team had its podcasting support service
fully in place, more than 20 faculty have created podcasts
to enhance either face-to-face or fully online courses. MEP
Coordinator Munindra Khaund has taken a three-pronged
approach in providing this support: engage, educate, and
enable.
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SURFING THROUGH NOISE
This is the second installment of "Surfing Through Noise," a
column that covers what it means to be "information fluent"
in our Digital/Information Age. Many of the practices,
challenges and issues concerning information fluency can be
applied to the online learning and teaching environment,
where students and teachers learn basic information fluency
skills (or advanced if they so choose) just by participating
in an online course.
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