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:

Part #1 of 5Background Info on SHUsquare

A Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons

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

Part #2 of 5Academic Vision for

A Virtual Teaching and Learning Commons

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

Part #3 of 5the Election 2016 Podcast

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

Part #4 of 5Teaching Creatively using Podcasts

Pedagogical Experiments with Podcasts at Sacred Heart University

•Politics•Foreign Languages•Literature•Media Studies•Religious Studies•Freshman Seminar

Part #5 of 5Pedagogical Questions for the Use of

Podcasts

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

Best Practices

• Show title and description• Introduction and conclusion• Organization - use an outline or notes • Regular and frequent releases• Production quality • Time factor • Less is more• Opportunity to use or create Open

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