Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Plans for Podcasting

I have been listening to podcasts for about a year--since I have been taking the bus to work. I download about 10 podcasts but only have time to listen to about 2--Sound Opinions and Fresh Air.

I am very interested in the enhanced podcasts with the images. I have seen a presentation on this at a library conference in which librarians basically made a tutorial using an enhanced podcasts. I may play around with this in the future.

For the podcast I am interested in recording faculty, instructors and graduate students about their research strategies. I keep reading about how successful it can be for teachers and instructors to talk about their own research process with their students and model their own behavior. I think this podcast might be an easy way to do this. Students could then listen to a few different people talk about their research strategies and the tools the use. Including peers or graduate students in their discipline. I can see this being useful in the junior or senior--when students need to learn about doing research in their field.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

I agree that buses and podcasts go together very well. :)

The idea of using enhanced podcasts for creating tutorials is very interesting, especially when looked at from the point of view of scientific and technical communication. In my classes, we often analyze instructions and talk about different ways of presenting technical information. How much information was spoken and how much was presented via images in the library tutorial you are describing?