Politics as Pedagogy : a 2016 election podcast as a model for building a
Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons
Jaya KannanOLC Accelerate, Orlando, Florida
Nov 16 2016
Use charts to explain your ideasTeaching Creatively using Podcasts
Pedagogy
Virtual Teaching and Learning
Commons
Podcasts
The three foci of this presentation:
Use charts to explain your ideasSHUsquare – the evolution of an idea
The SHUsquare project won the OLC “Effective Practice” Award
in fall 2014.
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Focus on building a Community of Inquiry
in an Interdisciplinary Learning context
Use charts to explain your ideasDigitally Networked Classroom
Image courtesy of Networked Learning Pradigm by Participatory Learninghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/49653615@N00/3677544652
Networked learning is learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources.
Goodyear, P., Banks, S., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D. (Eds.). (2006). Advances in research on networked learning (Vol. 4). Springer Science & Business Media.
Use charts to explain your ideasThe new SHUsquare
a Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons
Elements of Networked Learning:
•Curricular Design
•Faculty Collaborations
•Student Learning
•Teaching Experiments
•Continued Learning
Outside the Classroom
Use charts to explain your ideasElection 2016 Podcast
Overview
•Faculty + Student Collaboration
•Generative – a podcast a week since
Feb 1st 2016
•Student research
•Podcast website – designed and led
by students
•Studio facilities – support from Media
Studies
Use charts to explain your ideasElection 2016 Podcast
GLOBAL IMPACT:
Faculty + Student Collaboration2000+ plays between Feb. 1, 2016 and Nov. 1, 2016
Listeners from 35 countries
Use charts to explain your ideasWhat Characterizes
a Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons?
?How might it look in your institution ?
Use charts to explain your ideasWhat Characterizes
a Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons?
#1
“invites and ignites participatory learning”
Loertscher, D. V., & Koechlin, C. (2014). Climbing to excellence: Defining characteristics of successful learning commons. Knowledge Quest, 42(4), E1.
#2:
Evidence-based process of design, modify, rethink, redesign, and rework
#4:
Participatory learning through excellent instructional design, resources, and technologies, personal expertise and collaborative knowledge
#3:
Professionals who can successfully lead out front, or lead from the middle, or push from behind, are gear candidates to lead a LC
Pedagogical Experiments with Podcasts at Sacred Heart University
•Politics•Foreign Languages•Literature•Media Studies•Religious Studies•Freshman Seminar
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Context
SAMRModelBy Dr. Puentedura
Puentedura, R. (2014) ‘SAMR: a contextualised introduction’, [online] Available at: http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/2014/01/15/SAMRABriefContextualizedIntroduction.pdf
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Questions
Challenges in building a COI
•Technology vs Pedagogy•Student Engagement•Instructor Presence•Interactivity
Middleton, A. (2016). Reconsidering the role of recorded audio as a rich, flexible and engaging learning space. Research in Learning Technology, 24.Puentedura, R. (2014) ‘SAMR: a contextualised introduction’, [online] Available at: http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/2014/01/15/SAMRABriefContextualizedIntroduction.pdf
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Application #1 – SpanishNEW ACTIVITY
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6syiBTbu0WQmH57sEHZ6UpBnv73oXl9SHlI3qj0lVm3p8JQ/viewform
Instructor Presence
Targeted Exercise for Listening
Dynamic Digital Scaffolding
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Application #2 – Media StudiesCONNECTED ACTIVITY
Bringing Scholars into the Classroom
Promote Self-Directed learning
Building a Bank of Resources Across the Program
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Application #3 – LiteratureRELOCATED ACTIVITY
Teaching “The Odyssey” – moving from video lecture to audio podcast
Prof. Marie Hulme
Use charts to explain your ideasPedagogical Application #4 – Freshman
SeminarCAPTURED ACTIVITY
Student + Student, no InstructorSocratic SeminarFostering Critical Analysis
Faculty Forum: Interview with Faculty about their creative teaching practices
Let’s review some concepts
Common Space Collaboration Access
Privacy Tech Know-How Accountability
Teaching using Podcasts - Potentials and Pitfallsbased on the experiments at Sacred Heart
University
Emotional Comfort
Credit to Collaborators
Special thanks to my colleagues at Sacred Heart University:◉Prof. Gary Rose – Professor and Chair in the Department of Government, Politics and Global Studies ◉Prof. Pilar Munday – Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Cultures◉Student Bridget Hughes – senior, Government, Politics and Global Studies ◉The SHUsquare Team - Barbara Gerwien, Mareh Al-Sadoon, Joe Aiuto, Mary Awad
Special thanks to all the people who made and released this powerpoint template for free:
Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
Podcasting Techniques and Tech
• Capturing audio• Microphones• Start with basics and figure out how
to continually go to the next level.• Try to find the quietest space
possible. Reduces editing needs and eliminates problems that editing can’t fix
Media Lab at SHU
Free Sources
• Audacity for PC
• Garageband for Mac
• Adobe Audition – Mac/PC
Audacity Logo
Apple Logo Courtesy Creative Commons
Adobe Logo
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