Off the Rack:

Podcasts uses and content for broad educational process support
Shawn Cordes
scordes@iastate.edu

Generally Speaking…

• Engagement
• Provides alternate, enriched, content perspectives
• Interaction
• Provides anytime, anywhere flexibility, user creativity

• Reflection
• Lets users analyze sources and think about content in new ways, helps stimulate higher-order thinking.

Some Points to consider …

Build a point of information

• Chris Kretz – Learning to speak: Creating a library Podcast with unique voice from HigherEdBlogCOn 3
• http://www.igheredblogcon.com/library/kretz/Learningtospeak.mp3
• ITunes U – Build a Podcast repository that integrates with your school
• http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/ (See Stanford on Itunes)

Point to something someone else built

• Museum Podcast Directory – Arts, ,education, family, tv and film, and personal journals from museums near and far
• http://www.museumpods.com/id3e1.html
• Stanford, the model child…
• http://itunes.sttanford.edu

Build, Broadcast, and Bolster

• Build community o n student experiences
• Student library workers on their departments
• Student life on campus
• Promote the library through Podcasts
• Library tours on audio…
• Podcasts as professional development tool

Using student experiences to share learning

• HigherED BlogCon 3: admissions, alumni relations and communications & marketing
• Case Study. Blogging and Podcasting for Student Recruitment
• Nancy Prater, Heather Shupp, John Dailey, Ball State
• http://www.bsu.edu/reallife/
• Freshmen Reveal their sectrets; The Mansfield Unviersity Podcast
• Dennis Miller, Mansfield University
• http://podcast.mansfield.edu
• Student Voices Online: Podcasts as a Department Marketing Tool
• Kim Gregson Ithaca College
• ICTV http://www.ictv.org/sections/podcast/podcast.php

Podcasts and library promotion

• Omnibus – Dowling College Library
• A monthly conversation
• http://www.dowling.edu/library/newsblog/podcasts.asp

• Longshots – North Suburban Library System, Illinois
• http://www.sarahlong.org/podcast/

Syndication for HigerEd Podcasting

http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/wordpress/index.php/category/podcasting

vidnews, workshops, convference, porfsional interviews

ALA Library 2.0 Podcasts

Lecture me please…

A search on iTunes yields

Over 40 education Podcast offering non classroom specific programming

San Francisco Zoo Podcast… for biology or zoology classes, professional narrates tour

So many, too fast…. WOW lots of pods are out there.