Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation

eLearn 2005 World Conference on eLearning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education

Wesley A. Fryer

Texas Tech University - speedofcreativity.org

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Podcasting: A Hot Topic

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Podcasting: Faculty Perceptions

Texas Tech Daily Toreador, 14 Oct 2005: TTU Classics professor Dr. David Larmour: "Attendance is not required in my class, but I can see more students staying home instead of coming to class if podcasting were available at Tech." - Larmour said his biggest concern is having his own material out there for everyone to get. "I would not want my own precious material out there for everybody," he said. "That is the main problem I have with the idea."

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Podcasting: Parent Perceptions

Chicago Sun Times, 20 Oct 2005: "I would be rather upset with that," said Elizabeth Tenison, who said she is not worried about her daughter skipping class. "Part of going to a university is hearing alternate points of view... and that would be lost in large part if students did not attend. They would hear it, but they would not be participating."

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Podcasting: Student Perceptions

The Stanford Daily, 25 Oct 2005: "I find podcasting most effective and intriguing when people sounded honest in front of the microphone," [Stanford senior Kevin] Systrom says. "Overly-produced and sound-rich podcasts are simply missing the point... Podcasting just happens to be a great medium for informal communication and ad-hoc content recording. Think of it as democratizing of the media."

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My Contention

As a potentially disruptive technology capable of constructively promoting transmediation, educators have both an opportunity and responsibility to embrace podcasting. Under certain circumstances, podcasting can fundamentally transform the perceptions of students about school, their roles in the learning process, and the value of their daily activities shared via podcasts with a global as well as local audience.

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Defining Terms / Exploring Impacts

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Definition: Podcasting

The above definition of broadcasting is from Dr. Jonathan Sterne in his presentation, "From Broad to Pod?: Histories of Transmission for the Digital Age" at the Duke University Podcasting Symposium, September 27 - 28, 2005. This presentation is available as a 1 hour, 5 minute podcast.

Definition: Podcatching

Podcasting Examples

Additional podcasting links are available on the following Bloglines account under the category podcasts:
http://bloglines.com/public/wfryer

Definition: Disruptive Technology

Sustaining Technology: So What?!

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Definition: Transmediation

Consumers and Producers

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Welcome to the Revolution!

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Web 2.0 Characteristics

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Read more about using Web 2.0 in the classroom in:
Teaching & Learning with the Read/Write Web

Web 2.0 Examples

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Educational Uses of Podcasts

What Makes Podcasting Powerful?

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What Makes Podcasting Disruptive?

Implications of Podcasting

IP and Podcasting

Can We Afford This?

Why Podcasting?

Podcasting101 free Moodle curriculum is available:
www.speedofcreativity.org/moodle/

Global Discourse

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Preparation for the Future

"With the advent of democracy and modern industrial conditions, it is impossible to foretell definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. Hence it is impossible to prepare the child for any precise set of conditions. To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently. It is impossible to reach this sort of adjustment save as constant regard is had to the individual's own powers, tastes, and interests-say, that is, as education is continually converted into psychological terms."
(John Dewey, 1897)

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