Exercise 1 -- record a 60-90 second personal introduction and post the link to the recording or attach a playable audio file to the Discussion Board under Personal Introduction. In the Discussion message text box, include information about the microphone and sound recording method/software you used and write a short evaluation of the sound quality of the recording you made. Try to answer at least the following questions:
State your name and describe your degree, program or certificate as well as any relevant previous course work?
What is your experience level with podcasting and/or multimedia experience?
What is your learning goal for this course?
Do you have some instructional design experience/knowledge?
Any personal information you are willing to share.
Design Document - Design Idea
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open to your wiki page and start writing down your ideas for an educational podcast series. Use the question prompts from the guide to help steer your thinking. For now, it might just be a bulleted list of random ideas. For now I just want to get you thinking, writing, and submitting.
Write up your Deisgn Idea by Saturday 12-midnight.
OPTIONAL. Post your ideas to the Discussion Board under Brainstorm to get some feedback from your peers.
Week 2
Exercise 2 -- Group Discussion - Evaluate an educational podcast series. I will post the exercise instructions and discussion question to a new forum in our Bb Discussions tool Sunday night or by Monday. The discussion will run from Tuesday, May 26th through Sunday, May 31st.
Design Document: Audience and Content
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your first draft. Most likely you'll want to revise how you describe your design idea. Next I want you to quickly write about the next two sections: Audience and Content. Just convey enough detail for me to provide feedback on. I expect you to revise and fill this section out after feedback so don't spend a week writing a masterpiece.
Write up your Audience and Content section by Saturday 12-midnight.
Revise Design Idea, as needed.
Week 3
No Exercise due
Episode 1 due June 7th at midnight -- upload to iTunes U> Episode 1 dropbox tab
How to upload to iTunes U
Login to iTunes U via podcasts.gmu.edu in order to see Episode 1 & 2 tabs (access is restricted to the class so will not show up until you log in).
Once you click to enter Edit575: Podcasting, you will see a menu on the right with an Upload and Manage Files link. Click on it.
Browse out to find and upload your mp3, m4a, or m4v file to the Episode 1 Drop Box tab (it could take 5 or more minutes to work)
Be sure to click Done button on bottom right when it has uploaded.
Now, subscribe to the Episode 1 tab or Get Tracks to see how it works on your computer.
Design Document: Format
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your second draft. Most likely you'll want to revise how you describe your design idea, audience, and content. Now that you've had a chance play with the tools, I want you to describe the format(s) of your educational podcast series and a reasonably detailed description of the structure of each episode . Write-up this section of your Design Document by Saturday 12-midnight.
Podcast Episode 1 Peer Review due June 10th
Here are the peer matchups for this assignment. Matched students review one another:
Debbie do Mona do Neda do Debbie
Geoffrey do Kathleen do Katherine do Geoff
Wynonia do Karen do Nidi do Wynonia
Shannon <-&-> Matthew
Peer reviewing instructions and guidelines
Find your matched peer’s Episode 1 podcast iTunes U
Review peer’s podcast and tell him/her two things you liked about it and one thing you think could be improved. Your peer review is fairly informal and only needs to be a few sentences or paragraph in length.
Deliver your peer review by going to the Bb Discussions forum called Peer Podcast Reviews and creating a new entry in your journal. You can type or attach your review. You will find a review of your project under your matched peer’s name.
Incorporate the comments from the peer review you receive into your DD4 – Evaluation section.
Design Document: Evaluate & Refine
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your student design document draft and make any revisions to earlier parts of the document. Conduct a self-evaluation of Epsiode 1. Write-up this section and incorporate feedback from your peer review. Complete this section of your Design Document by Saturday 12-midnight.
Week 5
Exercise 4 - Develop a website or blog to host your podcasts -- due end of the class. Upload a link to your website to Bb Discussions.
Design Document - Final Version due June 18th
Episode 2 due June 18th -- upload to iTunes U> Episode 2 dropbox tab
Course Assignments
Table of Contents
Week 1
Exercise 1 -- record a 60-90 second personal introduction and post the link to the recording or attach a playable audio file to the Discussion Board under Personal Introduction. In the Discussion message text box, include information about the microphone and sound recording method/software you used and write a short evaluation of the sound quality of the recording you made. Try to answer at least the following questions:Design Document - Design Idea
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open to your wiki page and start writing down your ideas for an educational podcast series. Use the question prompts from the guide to help steer your thinking. For now, it might just be a bulleted list of random ideas. For now I just want to get you thinking, writing, and submitting.
Week 2
Exercise 2 -- Group Discussion - Evaluate an educational podcast series. I will post the exercise instructions and discussion question to a new forum in our Bb Discussions tool Sunday night or by Monday. The discussion will run from Tuesday, May 26th through Sunday, May 31st.Design Document: Audience and Content
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your first draft. Most likely you'll want to revise how you describe your design idea. Next I want you to quickly write about the next two sections: Audience and Content. Just convey enough detail for me to provide feedback on. I expect you to revise and fill this section out after feedback so don't spend a week writing a masterpiece.
Week 3
No Exercise dueEpisode 1 due June 7th at midnight -- upload to iTunes U> Episode 1 dropbox tab
How to upload to iTunes U
Design Document: Format
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your second draft. Most likely you'll want to revise how you describe your design idea, audience, and content. Now that you've had a chance play with the tools, I want you to describe the format(s) of your educational podcast series and a reasonably detailed description of the structure of each episode . Write-up this section of your Design Document by Saturday 12-midnight.
Week 4
Exercise 3 - RSS Feeds. - Link to Exercise 3.Podcast Episode 1 Peer Review due June 10th
Here are the peer matchups for this assignment. Matched students review one another:
- Debbie do Mona do Neda do Debbie
- Geoffrey do Kathleen do Katherine do Geoff
- Wynonia do Karen do Nidi do Wynonia
- Shannon <-&-> Matthew
Peer reviewing instructions and guidelinesDesign Document: Evaluate & Refine
Consult the Design Project Guidelines. Open up your student design document draft and make any revisions to earlier parts of the document. Conduct a self-evaluation of Epsiode 1. Write-up this section and incorporate feedback from your peer review. Complete this section of your Design Document by Saturday 12-midnight.
Week 5
Exercise 4 - Develop a website or blog to host your podcasts -- due end of the class. Upload a link to your website to Bb Discussions.Design Document - Final Version due June 18th
Episode 2 due June 18th -- upload to iTunes U> Episode 2 dropbox tab