A compilation of slides from the ALT workshop with links to the audio summaries made by participants during the day.

1. ALT Podcast Workshop Graham McElearney University of Sheffield and Andrew Middleton Sheffield Hallam University Recordings from the workshop participants are available at: http://alt.podomatic.com by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

2. Morning 10:00 Introductions 10:15 The 5 minute podcast - a demo and analysis 10:45 Overview of Educational Podcasting 11:00 Coffee 11:15 Educational Podcasting - "The Whirlwind Tour" 12:00 Back to Base! Getting Real: benefits and barriers 12:15 Creative Approaches to Designing Educational Podcasts 13:00 Lunch – 45 minutes 13:45 Reflecting on the design tools 14:00 Making Educational Podcasts 15:00 Coffee available but podcast production continues 15.30 - Showtime and Reflections 16:00 Workshop ends Morning: Owen 221, Hands-on: PC Lab 330 by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

4. developed approaches to designing, producing and distributing podcasts and other forms of digital media

5. awareness of the diverse designed applications for educational podcasting and the less planned opportunities afforded by digital media in enhancing learner engagement.by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

6. The 5 minute podcast - a demo and analysis A demo podcast was constructed involving those present. This can be found at: http://alt.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-04-14T07_32_07-07_00 The key message was: Often you can look at the resource around you and use simple techniques to produce something meaningful to the learning community. An audio summary can be found at: http://alt.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-04-14T07_33_50-07_00 by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

7. Overview of Educational Podcasting Andrew Middleton by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

8. What is educational podcasting? Write your own definition now... by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

9. Brainstorm 2 minute discussion with the person sitting next to you "What qualities suggest that podcasting would be useful to education?" by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

10. What did you say? Your ideas… An audio summary on definitions and characteristics can be found at:http://alt.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-04-14T07_35_36-07_00 An audio summary about taking a creative view of podcasting can be found at: http://alt.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-04-14T07_41_54-07_00 by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

11. Characteristics Distributed media – usually audio, but increasingly video, PDFs Accessible - Internet distributed, downloadable media (especially digital audio) Automatically delivered - Simple syndication technology (RSS + media enclosures) that allows interested parties to subscribe to published content ('feeds') from a particular supplier Managed by the user - aggregation software designed to gather feeds Device neutral - media players, both software and hardware (eg iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp on the PC and MP3 players like iRivers, iPods, Creative Zens, etc) Personal - making strong connections across and beyond the learning environment; Social – embedded voices, ideas, questions and knowledge shared; Flexible (time and location neutral) – hence 'time shifting', 'space shifting', mobile, flexible learning. Optional characteristics Automatically delivered - Simple syndication technology (RSS + media enclosures) that allows interested parties to subscribe to published content ('feeds') from a particular supplier; User controlled - aggregation software designed to gather feeds; made and gathered at the user's discretion. by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

12. Definitions Review your own definition now... Strict, technical definition: “the serial distribution via RSS feeds of locally created, downloadable, digital media episodes, usually audio, to a niche audience of subscribers” An open definition for education“asynchronous digital voices” It doesn’t matter too much: What can you do with digital audio? by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

13. Do I need a podcast feed? Those attending wanted to know about podcast feeds. Does a podcast have to be delivered using a feed or can it be delivered like other digital documents? An impromptu presentation was given in response to this question (see the next slide). This is also now available as a slidecast on Slideshare.net by Colleen AF Venable (2009)

15. Equipment

16. Environment

17. Schedule

19. Using MP3 recorder

20. Voice Memo softwareDirect access User manually checks for content by browsing e.g.. VLE Listen on portable device Don’t Edit No post production needed OR Listen at the PC PRODUCE PUBLISH PLAN RECEIVE