Teaching Tip: Educational Podcasting
Ruth Guthrie and Louise Soe
Podcasts are like radio shows made available over the Internet through applications like iTunes. People can subscribe to most shows for free and consume them on their computers or iPods when it is convenient for them. Advocates of educational podcasting claim that reaching students through a technology that they love, an MP3 player, is a way to engage them in learning. Podcasts can be recordings of traditional lectures made available over the internet or they can be guest speakers, campus tours or class discussions. This article gives a brief history of podcasting and instructions for how to create a simple podcast. Ideas and examples for using podcasting in the classroom are given.
Keywords: educational IS, educational technology, technology trends, office of the future
Ruth Guthrie is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at California Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has experience in software test and program management of large scale software programs in the aerospace industry. Her interests are educational technology, user interface design, emerging technologies and technology and gender. She has authored several papers in a variety of areas including two books on Web development. Currently, she is working on an NSF grant to promote institutional change at Cal Poly for women in the sciences.
Louise L. Soe is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her research interests include Women in Technology; Web Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning; IS Curriculum, and technology diffusion. Her academic papers are on innovation diffusion, the influence of organizational culture and climate in women in technology, and IS curriculum. She is the coauthor of two texts on Web development.
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