Podcasts and Vodcasts

Nickle and Nickle of Old Dominion presented this. Shocker: podcasts of lectures have mixed effectiveness. Can you believe that students don't usually listen to the ones professors make!?

On the other hand, having students create them was a way for students to learn course content and to learn a technology was great. The students started with a common event, experimenting with questions to see what would and wouldn't work. Then they wrote script, collected images and audio, then edited all into a vodcast. Technology was the biggest hurdle for them, but in addition to using pods to help students learn, they became part of an electronic portfolio students had, because they were also keeping blogs on Wordpress.

Each had the audio disclaimer that no part of the vodcast could be used without permission. Students learned about copyright issues when getting images. And some were created in students' native languages.

Hmm, so here's a way for students to process internship learning and potentially be used for prospective students. In addition to learning content and learning the technology, the presenters hope to use the learning products themselves to eventually promote their art collections.