Matt’s Notes
Welcome to the latest EnT…
You down with EnT? Yeah, you know me!
Uh… pardon me…
On this episode we’re all about podcasting… vis-à-vis this here podcast format! Never shall we ever miss an opportunity to go as fully meta as we can on this show!
If clicking is part of your impetus for being here, then by all means… click away!
Times will change… but our #ednontech, maybe not so much!
(I’m Going Through) Changes
As mentioned during the episode, things look a lot different for me professionally than they did a few days ago!
While I’m still processing the emotional and financial (mostly financial) aspects of what this means, for sure I’m motivated by the fact that:
A) I am 100% proud of the significant e-learning development that I completed from conception to delivery over the better part of ten months… literally dozens of e-learning modules… to say nothing of the technology and instructional design and project management skills and professional development this role entailed…
B) I am 100% committed to finding a role which is relevant, personally meaningful, engaging on a day-to-day level… and much closer to my kids, in BC!
C) There is no acceptable tradeoff at this point for positive work-life balance. Any job that causes any amount of stress or significant energy or effort outside of working hours is not the role for me… after nearly a half-a-century on Planet Earth…
I’ve made significant efforts recently to downsize my imprint as a consumer… as a person who owns and buys physical things on the regular… this is in keeping with the principles of the Stoic philosophers… including Marcus Aurelius… material possessions being neither good nor bad in and of themselves…
Anything that gets in the way of relocating closer to my kids as expediently as possible is to be worked through… the object needing work is the way forward…
As long as you have a goal when you get up each day, things are usually going OK. My most precarious, harrowing times with mental health crises were characterized by lacking awareness of how to move forward in any endeavor in a positive way… stasis… mental and physical weakness…
And so on and so forth! I’m extremely grateful to my excellent family, friends, and colleagues who have expressed their care, support, and awesome humor in times such as these… and so… there will be a more tangibly educational thrust to these notes… with the next episode! But not this one…
Doug’s Notes
Podcasting in Ed Tech
Imagine a liberal-arts university supplying its community, and the world, with “profcasts” of classes and presentations delivered by its talented instructors.
Campbell, G. (2005). Podcasting in education. EDUCAUSE, Nov/Dec, 5(2005), 33-44.
While the usage of iPods, podcasts and other on-demand technologies continue to affect society, it appears that educational settings have not yet adapted to accommodate their use in classrooms.
Reid, D., Kervin, L., Vardy, J., & Hindle, C. (2006, July 14-16). We’ve got the iPods, but where do we start? The story of two grade 4 teachers. Paper published at the Mobile Learning 2006, Dublin, Ireland, (pp. 218-221).
If students do not utilize or do not realize the benefits of the self-pacing multimedia characteristics of podcasting, then the resource becomes a more likely contributor to cognitive overload.
Walls, S. M., Kucsera, J. V., Walker, J. D., Acee, T. W., McVaugh, N. K., & Robinson, D. H. (2010). Podcasting in education: Are students as ready and eager as we think they are?. Computers & education, 54(2), 371-378.
… the podcasting task provided opportunities for the course lecturer, tutors and students to learn and share ideas with one another. The experience empowered students to develop the skills and confidence to initiate more independent inquiry into technologies to support their pedagogical purposes.
Forbes, D., & Khoo, E. (2015). Voice over distance: A case of podcasting for learning in online teacher education. Distance Education, 36(3), 335-350.
Platforms are “open” in the sense that they enable users to easily create, store, and distribute media content with little to no technical knowledge. This “openness” is bounded in important ways, however. For example, users typically have little control over the storage or modification of their data. In addition, the algorithms that make their content available to other platform users are often opaque at best.
Sullivan, J. L. (2019). The platforms of podcasting: Past and present. Social media+ society, 5(4), 2056305119880002.
Doug’s Favourite Learning Podcasts
Big Ideas https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas
Ed non-Tech https://oyos.ca/ENT/ or https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/
In Our Time https://www.bbcpodcasts.com/listen/in-our-time/
Let’s make a https://amp.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1061-lets-make-a
Patented https://shows.acast.com/patented-history-of-inventions
The Debaters https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thedebaters
The Happiness Lab https://www.drlauriesantos.com/happiness-lab-podcast
Word of the Podcast
Podcasting
Question of the Podcast
What will it take for podcasting to be used regularly in classrooms?
Phrase of the Podcast
The algorithm will serve me up…
And
I don’t even want to know more about it.
Thanks for turning your dial this way! Catch you further down the media line!
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