This episode features audio recorded during a March 2008 Center for Teaching workshop titled “Podcasting: What Is It and Why Would You Want To Do It?” We’re splitting this workshop over two podcast episodes. The previous episode featured a discussion of the roles podcasting can play in and out of the classroom in the service of student learning. This second episode features a discussion from the March workshop of some of the technical and logistical aspects of producing and using podcasts via remarks made by two of the workshop facilitators:
Melanie Moran, Assistant Director for Web Communications, Public Affairs Office
Brian Smokler, Manager of Instructional Systems, Technology Support Center at Peabody College, and Video Technical Manager, Public Affairs Office
Please take a minute or two to leave a comment here and share your thoughts about podcasting in higher education. We’re interested in hearing what you have to say. Vanderbilt instructors are also welcome to call the Center for Teaching at 615-322-7290 to arrange a meeting with a CFT teaching consultant to discuss podcasting or any other aspect of their teaching.
This episode features audio recorded during a March 2008 Center for Teaching workshop titled “Podcasting: What Is It and Why Would You Want To Do It?” We’re splitting this workshop over two podcast episodes. This first episode features a discussion of the roles podcasting can play in and out of the classroom in the service of student learning. Why might you want to produce a podcast for your course? Why might you want students to produce podcasts as part of their course work? How can you make the most out of either option? These and other teaching-related questions will be explored in this first episode via remarks made by two of the workshop facilitators:
Michael Risen, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching
Jeff Johnston, Assistant Director, Center for Teaching, and Lecturer, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Please take a minute or two to leave a comment here and share your thoughts about podcasting in higher education. We’re interested in hearing what you have to say. Vanderbilt instructors are also welcome to call the Center for Teaching at 615-322-7290 to arrange a meeting with a CFT teaching consultant to discuss podcasting or any other aspect of their teaching.
In this episode, we’re changing up our format a little. Instead of featuring an interview with a single faculty member, this episode features audio recorded during a February 2008 lunch discussion co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching and the Vanderbilt Center for Ethics. The discussion was part of our joint Technology, Values, and Teaching series and was titled “Teaching in a Digital Age: How Should Technologies Shape Our Learning Space and Pedagogical Practices?” This double-size episode presents the opening remarks made by the three panelists at that discussion:
Patricia Armstrong, assistant director at the Center for Teaching and senior lecturer in the Department of French and Italian;
Matt Hall, assistant vice chancellor for Information Technology Services; and
Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair, Department of English.
All three panelists spoke about their experiences integrating technology into their teaching, Patricia in the context of the French language and literature courses she teaches, and Matt and Jay in the context of a rather unique first-year writing seminar they co-taught in the fall of 2007. The seminar was titled “Worlds of Wordcraft,” and it examined the role of narrative in computer games and other new media.
Please take a minute or two to leave a comment here and share your thoughts on teaching with technology. We’re interested in hearing what you have to say. Vanderbilt instructors are also welcome to call the Center for Teaching at 615-322-7290 to arrange a meeting with a CFT teaching consultant to discuss technology or any other aspect of their teaching.
July 17th, 2008 by 
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