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Workshop
6
Title: Podcast: Anytime,
anyplace on-demand instruction
Workshop
Description:
Educational tools, used
appropriately, have the potential to impact student learning but
only to the extent that technology users understand how to
design instructional activities and create learning environments
that will engage and challenge students.
Portable electronic devices capable of receiving downloadable
audio/video (podcast) content from Internet sources could be
used to present course related content outside the classroom.
However, podcasting will require some creative thinking and
careful planning by designers.
Therefore, educators wishing to use a podcast must address three
important issues:
- the purpose of their podcast;
- the added value to learners;
- and how any developed
material will not only capture student interest but cause them
to think more broadly and critically with the ultimate goal of
developing a greater understanding of course related content.
Main Objective:
Provide information, tips/ideas, and hands-on experience
using equipment to create podcast to impact listeners and
viewers. Information will also be shared about the potential of
podcasts as viable instructional supplements.
Presenter: Dave Yearwood
Dave Yearwood, Ph.D., CSTM,
Associate Professor and chair, Department of Technology at the
University of North Dakota teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses in technology and electronic control systems. Yearwood
has extensive experience designing and developing instructional
multimedia modules as stand-alone units or as supplements for
use in blended classrooms. Dave’s study and publications
(including a book chapter on Podcasts) on instructional
technology focuses primarily on “Electronic Pedagogy”—how
faculty infuse presentation or other technologies into their
practice to connect and engage students, enhance their
understanding of course content, and promote dialogue that leads
to a critical examination of a topic/subject under examination.
His study of electronic controls is focused primarily on the
creation of “smart systems” aided by computers.
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