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1. Doubling the life of iPods

• Summary
• Introduction
• A renaissance for audio in learning
• The rationale for using audio
• And so…challenges for students
• Start here for doubling the life of iPods

2. Podcasting in context

• Summary
• Personal mobile devices
• Mobile learning
• Conclusion

3. Podcasting technology

• Summary
• Definitions
• The birth of pedagogical podcasting
• Types of podcasts
  • Audio podcasts
  • Video podcasts
  • Enhanced Podcasts
• Publishing and accessing podcasts
  • VLE hosting and direct publishing
  • Internet hosting
• Mixed hosting
• Podcasting as a learning technology
• Reminder glossary

4. Podcasts and lectures

• Summary
• Our aims
• Choosing podcast content and developing the podcasts
• Methods of data collection
• Results for Podcast 1 and the ‘block on table’ question
• Results for Podcast 2 and Questions 1-4
• Discussion
• Conclusion

5. Podcasts and practicals

• Summary
• Introduction
• Current practice: screenshot-illustrated textual manuals
• The media richness debates
• The Introduction to Geographic Information Science module
• Research methodology and process
• Results of the questionnaire
• Results of student focus groups
• The user statistics
• Placing the evaluation within the media-richness debate
• Summary and implications for teaching practice

6. Podcasts and locations

• Summary
• Context
• Fieldwork in GEES subjects and opportunities for podcasting
• Fieldwork podcasting in practice
  • Preparation for fieldwork
  • The iWalk
  • Instructional podcasts
  • Student-directed podcasts as a means of assessment
• Lessons learned
• Conclusions

7. Podcasts and feedback

• Summary
• Introduction
• Assessment and feedback
• The nature and quality of feedback comments
• Student interpretation of, and engagement with, the feedback
• Details of the case study
• Accessing and listening to the feedback
• The nature and content of the feedback
• Engagement with the feedback
• Some drawbacks and challenges
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements

8. Podcasts and online learning

• Summary
• Why bother about podcasting?
• Podcasts in an online undergraduate engineering course
• How well did the podcasts work?
• Integrating the podcasts into the course
• Conclusion

9. Podcasts and distance learning

• Summary
• Introduction
• Podcasting in distance education
• Case studies of podcasting in distance learning
• Case study 1: Charles Sturt University
• Case study 2: University of New England
• Emerging themes from the case studies
• Conclusion

10. Podcasts and resources

• Summary
• Context
• E-learning at the RVC
• Developing potcasts
• Educational value and lessons learnt
• Cognitive mechanisms
• Conclusions and future developments

11. Podcasts and students’ storytelling

• Summary
• Storytelling using podcasting
• Students in the Digital Age
• Use of digital storytelling
• Evaluation by staff and students of digital storytelling
• Evaluating the educational impact
• Conclusions

12. Podcasts and collaborative learning

• Summary
• Aims and objectives
• Podcast content
• The development process
• Staff and students involved
• Students’ use of podcasts
• Location and patterns of listening to podcasts
• Contribution to student learning
  • Learner choice and flexibility
  • Accessing the tacit knowledge’ of peers
  • A different way of learning
• A model of how podcasts helped students’ learning
• Reflections of a novice podcaster

13. Podcasts for reflective learning

• Summary
• Introduction
• Podcasts for mediating reflective learning
• Access to podcasts for students in developing countries
• Role of reflection in education
• Questions as drivers of reflective learning
• Teaching and learning issues addressed using podcasts
• Methodology
• Scaffolding reflective learning with podcasts
• Evaluation of student learning
• Content analysis
• Thematic analysis
• Podcast mediated action learning
• Podcast implementation model
• Checklists for effective implementation
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements

14. Students’ podcasts as learning tools

• Summary
• Context
• The pilot study
• Evaluation methods
• Findings
• Conclusions and recommendations

15. Developing pedagogical podcasts

• Summary
• Introduction
• The 10-factor design model
  • Step 1: Decide the pedagogical rationale and the driver
  • Step 2: Select the medium
  • Step 3: Choose convergence
  • Step 4: Choose authors and contributors to podcasts
  • Step 5: Decide on structure of podcasting
  • Step 6: Decide on reusability
  • Step 7: Choose length
  • Step 8: Select style
  • Step 9: Decide on framework
  • Step 10: Select access system
• Intellectual Property
• Enabling and assisting learning
• Design coda

16. The future for podcasting

• Summary
• Introduction
• Pod capture: our moment in time

17. The university in your pocket

• Summary
• Thinking techno-mobilities
• iPod therefore I learn?
• Learning times and spaces
• Life log learning
• Learning as labour

Appendix. How to create podcasts – An author’s guide

• Summary
• Section 1: Equipment for podcasting
• Section 2: Preparing to Record
• Section 3: Recording
  • Become familiar with the Audacity interface
  • Start recording
  • Listen
  • Correcting mistakes
  • Adding extra dialogue and sound tracks
  • Save your podcast
• Section 4: Publishing your podcasts
• Personalizing your recording with ID3 Tags
• Enabling your podcast to be heard
  • Podcasts and VLEs
  • Web-based Podcasts
  • Publishing podcasts on iTunes
• Section 5: Podcasts and copyright
  • Copyright
  • Podsafe music
  • Published Literature