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How could a podcast be useful to you as a graduate student?

As students we can share learning experiences. Provide each other with a worldwide audience that makes learning meaningful and assessment authentic.

How could a teacher use a podcast?

Teachers can use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them. The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool.

How could you have students use podcasts?

The idea of using Ipods in the classroom will certainly help to make them aware of this technology, also by trying to show them that podcasts could help them to study better, allowing some students to fast-forward to the part of an introductory lecture they didn't understand and hit repeat.

How could a museum use podcasts?

Listeners can hear curators, conservators and researchers share their personal stories about the art with each audio story illustrated by an image of the painting concerned.

As students, we have had a good time creating this podcast. I learned a lot about fashion from that time period from listening to my partner's dialogue about the clothes in the paintings. By laughing and just discussing the pictures, we made some interesting discoveries and connections that we wouldn't have made in a more stiffled conversation or lecture.

Teachers can use podcast assignments to assess student's knowledge acquisition. Teachers could also use podcasts to catch students who missed class up as well as to deliver lectures so that students can revisit them to study. Particularly for AP and IB students, they may need to be able to hear lectures again to review for exams. Podcasts are an easy way to have the same quality of information as actual classtime delivered in a manner that can be revisted.

Museums can use podcasts to deliver information about work in exhibition. Not providing the hardware means that the museum would save money (not having to by equipment or pay to maintain it as well as not having to insure that visitors did not walk off with equipment). Also, using a podcast or group of podcasts would free the museum goer up to explore the galleries at their own pace rather than having to follow a linear path through a crowded museum. I tend to get annoyed at guided audio tours because everyone is gathered around the same case of painting and some people cannot see or experience the work in the same way. If I had a bunch of podcasts on my iPod, I could simply skip around and not have to fight the crowds. Podcasts also offer museums the chance to educate a public that may not be able to come to the museum. If they provide visual images of the work as well as audio, people from all over the globe could learn and experience the work without having to travel to the actual museum.

A blog post from Two Cents Worth that discusses how to talk to administrators about podcasting...good to know that others are thinking about these sorts of things too.
Maybe we should invite this teacher to blog with us.

This is an mp3 of a journalism teacher discussing a podcast assignment with his college-level students. It is interesting to hear his ideas about how to help students produce episodes with interesting content.