Academic Research Podcast

Finished! I learned I have a lot more to learn about skype and podcasting. I interviewed my blog partner, Olga for the podcast--as Olga is a scholar in her own right. My idea for the podcast would be a series of short interviews with scholars on the research strategies they use--as a way to model the behavior for students and give a common language to talk about doing research.

Olga was nice enough to go through it twice since I managed to mess up the recording the first time. Thanks, Olga! I really liked many of Olga's answers to the questions--exactly what I was hoping for.

Setting up to record Skype through the computer and the recording sound levels were the most challenging as far as I was concerned and I am not too happy with the final results--I did some editing but I would want to practice and play around more before trying to do this for "real".

I like the interview style for the podcasts (even if I did not like figuring out how to record the skype call). I can see having students listen to a few good examples and reflect on what makes a good interview. Before attempting their own. I think to make these engaging they need to be more live than scripted. I liked having a few scripted questions but nothing turns me off from listening to a podcast worse than hearing someone read a script--now editing is important but not reading a script.

I like the idea from the Hendron on using podcasts to do book reviews-in that case I can see that a scripted podcast makes more sense. I also liked the rubric (pg. 215) for grading the book review. Like many of the in class speakers have talked about I see the value of separating the content from the mechanics. And also giving students opportunities to get points in case the technology fails (e.g. grading the script, a bibliography of outside sources, storyboard, etc.)

Here are three ways for getting to the podcast. Enjoy

RSS for podcast: http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/generateRSS.php?podcast_id=177

Public Download link: https://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php?file=20742.mp3

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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.

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