Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes

Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes

Start-up Event

Building a Practitioners’ SIG

Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes

The Project Bid

• Partnership between Chester and Hertfordshire• Pilot Phase (Jan/March) and Main Project Phase

(March/July)• Chester and Hertfordshire events (Feb and April)• Scope: learner and staff-generated podcasting

(audio and video)• All learning contexts; and assessment practice• Building ideas by Wiki• Project Management Group: Chester and

Hertfordshire• Steering Group: Chester and Hertfordshire;

HEA/JISC; Paul Bacsich (Critical Friend); ANO?

Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes

Project: Operational Overview

• Pathfinder Extension Project to July 2008• Initial investigation to identify sector practice• Preliminary report to HEA (early March)• Development, dissemination and networking events• For ‘novices’ and ‘more experienced’• Add value and enhance capacity and capability• Practical pedagogic outputs• Report on practice to HEA• Mechanisms for a self-sustaining SIG• Contribution to HEA ‘End of e-Learning Programme’

Conference

Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes

Today’s Programme

• Project Overview and practical arrangements• Showcasing Podcasting• Networking Opportunities• Shaping the SIG…• …what do current and emerging practitioners need?• …what has worked so far• How to become self-sustaining• Planning and design of future events• Intended outputs: ‘How to’ guides; Wiki Case Studies• ‘Developing the Guides’ and ‘Building the SIG Wiki’