WORKS CITED
Research Project on Podcasting

Calandra, Brendan and Flanagan, Brian. “Podcasting in the Classroom” Learning and Leading with Technology Nov. 2005.
This is a straightforward although short article on the basics of podcasting, including benefits and issues regarding podcasting, as well as simplified steps to receiving and creating podcasts. This article mentioned a study by Duke University on its innovative program of distributing iPods to its student body in 2004. I plan on following up on the Duke article.
Campbell, Gardner. “Podcasting in Education: There’s Something in the Air” Educause Nov/Dec. 2005.
This article creates an “imagine if” scenario where a female student at a state university uses podcasts daily in her educational universe as well as her personal one. Campbell explains how this pretend story is happening now and what’s made it possible is the ease with which is can be done. He says that although it will take a few tries, podcasting takes “rudimentary skills” and is accessible to most computer users. Campbell advocates including “creative digital tools” in education or we as educators will be cheating students. He also compares the histories of radio and podcasting, and how he’s using it in his own classroom.
Evans, Ellen and Po, Jeanne. “A Break in the Transaction: Examining Students’ Responses to Digital Texts” Computers and Composition 24 (2007) pp. 56-73.
This article examines the “millennial generation’s” (I love this term and plan to use it in my paper) reactions to moving from print to digital texts in a college literature course. The authors note that although we as educators assume that students embrace the use of new media in their lives, the transition to classroom learning with these technologies hasn’t been studied nearly enough.
Fernandez, Luke. “I Upload, Therefore I Teach” The Chronicle of Higher Education 1 Jan. 2007.
Luke helped his father, an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, work mp3 audio into the elder’s lecture-style course. The younger Fernandez discusses how this project worked. He also talks about using podcasting in his own teaching. He juxtaposes technology and oral tradition, and this makes me stop and think about the benefit of podcasting in the classroom.
Gerard, Lisa. “The Evolution of the Computers and Writing Conference, The Second Decade” Computers and Composition 23 (2006) pp. 211-227.
This article is a sequel to an earlier article, published a dozen years earlier, that focused on computers and writing from 1982 to 1994. Gerard, speaking on behalf of writing educators, says that although we sometimes worry and feel overwhelmed by technology, basically we are optimistic about the future of technology in the writing classroom. She states that we love to experiment and I interpret that as encouragement in include podcasting in the writing classroom.
Isakson, Carol “Caught on the Web: Podcasts in Education” Education Digest April 2006.
This is a very abbreviated yet informational compilation directing readers to various websites concerning podcasting and education. She gives a pretty good across-the-board survey of websites.
Johnson, Val. “Power Up! Enhancing (Already) Successful Lessons With Technology.” Extending Conversations: Multimedia in the K-16 Classrooms, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI 10 March 2007.
Johnson is a teacher in an alternative high school in Michigan. She talked about using a digital voice recorder, where her students had just completed a short unit on personal essays. “It was amazing to see students’ perception of audience and the importance of revision transform as they began recording their essays,” Johnson said. The students had to have their essays in written form before they could begin recording. The act of students listening to their written words really helped with revision and made final drafts even better. The idea for the personal essays, Johnson said, was modeled after National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” series. Even though Johnson didn’t specifically cite podcasting, I am taking the liberty to extending her idea of digital voice recording one step further to include the idea of podcasting.
Todras-Whitehill, Ethan. “Web logs, podcasts give students new tool” The Grand Rapids Press 8 Aug. 2005, New York Times Service.
Elementary and high schools students are shown integrating blogging and podcasting into their curriculum. One teacher says that this way of presenting information has really motivated his students and that it’s not an easy way out.“You just can’t fake it with this show. You’ve got to own it,” meaning the information the kids are learning. I liked this article because it showed how students can be excited about using new technology and it also showed a teacher who really believes it adds to his students’ knowledge of their subject matter.
Vestal, Shawn. “Region’s universities test podcasting: Professors using new technologies to connect” The Spokesman-Review 25 Feb. 2007, Spokane, Wash., McClatchy-Tribune Business News
This is one of many newspaper articles I found touting podcasting as the latest trend and technology in demand at colleges and universities. Here the author talks about Washington universities experimenting with the podcasting of professors’ lectures and how this may affect class attendance. Something it talked about that didn’t, I think, really concern me was the idea of using virtual sites such as Second Life in a quest for better distance or online learning. The article does provide both points of view on podcasting; those who are excited about its potential and those who think it’s a passing fad.
Warlick, David. “A Day in the Life of Web 2.0” Technology and Learning 1 Oct 2006, CMP Media LLC.
This article surveys all types of multimedia including blogs, wikis and podcasting. The author discusses a middle school English teacher, Mr. P, who is using podcasting to record a class discussion on “The Grapes of Wrath”. A parent of one of Mr. P’s students, meanwhile, is across town listening to a discussion of a science fiction short story. This article does a great job interweaving various aspects of technology throughout the various levels of school-related personnel, including parents, teachers, students, a principal, school board members and even a school superintendent. It is not clear to me, however, if this story of related technological relationships is real or if simply a figment of the author’s pro-technology imagination. Either way, I think it gives concrete examples of how to use the tools we have in new and exciting ways.