UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLÂNDIA

PODCASTS FOCUSING IMMUNOLOGICAL CONSTITUENTS PRESENT IN HUMAN BREAST MILK

MÔNICA CAMARGO SOPELETE1; BEATRIZ DE ABREU DOS SANTOS2; LUIZA ARAÚJO FREITAS2; ALINE PIRES DE OLIVEIRA3; JULIANA APORTA GASPAR3; MARÍLIA DA SILVA COELHO3; TAIS BITTENCOURT MAGALHÃES DE PAULO3; MIRNA TONUS3

1.Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, MG, Brasil. 2.Faculty of Medicine, Nursing course, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, MG, Brasil; 3.College of Education, Social communication: journalism, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, MG, Brasil .

The association between digital mobile telephony and Internet predicts major changes in human institutional relations, including education. Podcast is a media file that can be transmitted over the Internet, and can be accessed for download on mobile devices or not, such as phones, tablets and mp3 players. Blog is a combination of the words web and log, and consists of discussion or informational site published in posts on the world wide web. Podcast and blog are didactic tools that contribute to the teaching and learning regardless of time and space. They may also represent tools for scientific diffusion.  

INTRODUCTION

AIMS

Aiming to promote content on the role of immune system components present in human breast milk, for academics and for professionals of the biomedical area and encourage them to access articles published in this area, a multidisciplinary group of students and teachers created podcast episodes.

METHODS

1. Project staff - Federal University of Uberlândia: - University professors: Immunology and Digital Media (Journalism)- Graduation students: Nursing and Journalism

2. Literature review: - PubMed and Scielo- Articles focusing on immunologic components present in human breast milk

3. Analysis of voice quality: - Done with all professors and students- Criteria: understanding of content; text interpretation; transfer of information with clarity; rhythm; voice variations; convincing and, well finished sentences. - Assisted in the choice of host

4. Podcast:Vignettes:

- Human voice and music;- Introduction, opening and closing in all episodes;- Music available in public domain: www.jamendo.com

Audios:- Analysis of voice quality: all staff - Audio files: players - Hosting in an online audio distribution platform: SoundCloud- Signature via RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

5. Blog: - Text and audio posts- Hosting in an online text and audio distribution platform: blogger- Texts according to the new rules of grammar of the Portuguese language and bibliographical references- PDF file hosted in Google docs

6. Facebook fan page:- To share information on breastfeeding

CONCLUSION

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

RESULTS

Figure 1: Image of Jamendo (music sharing website), and the song "Ensarada“ by Tunacka, chosen to compose the vignette on ImunoCast.

Figure 2: Image of SoundCloud, online hosting platform for audio, especially the episode 13 of ImunoCast “A ciência diz” serie. It may be noted in the player, as well as track time, options to download and share the file.

Figure 3: Images of the two series of podcasts were hosted on SoundCloud and on the Imunocast blog (http://imunocastufu.blogspot.com.br): (1) "Imunologia de berço" is used as a resource to support teaching in classes for the undergraduate program in nursing and (2) "A ciência diz" is aimed at professionals and students in the area of biomedical sciences.

Figure 4: Image on the blog ImunoCast episode 13, "A ciência diz” serie. The player, the link to the PDF text, the authorship and type of copyright license are also shown.

Technical details in the preparation of audio, text and blog were built to facilitate the understanding of content by listeners/readers and were important to make them accessible and understandable, especially for professionals in areas of biomedical sciences.

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Figure 5: Image on the ImunoCast fanpage in Facebook. A fanpage was created to promote the project. In the first month, five episodes were published on the blog and had over 700 views.

Figure 6: Picture of the ImunoCast project members who participated in the 14 th Week of Breastfeeding in the UFU.

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