Cocktails. Directory. Coxwain wikispace. Guide for Evaluating Podcasts. From Elearning Overview The use of Podcasting in Higher Education is growing rapidly. Is it a technology driven process or is it based on an actual evaluation of students' needs? To avoid a haphazard adoption, Faculties need a frame of reference if they want to find an answer to the question “Should we support podcasting?” Distributing iPods to students Duke University took the plunge already in 2004 by distributing iPods to 1,500 first year students. Here, at the University of Sydney, the eCommunication program at the Faculty of Arts, has, much more modestly, distributed iPods Video on loan to about a dozen postgraduate students during the second semester of 2006.
Mystery and Misconceptions There is still much mystery and, even amongst those who are aware of podcasting, there are still many misconceptions about its possible use so I felt it important to try and identify different characteristics of podcasting which would deserve attention in an evaluation. Possible Questions Planning Guide. Youth at risk - of learning the risks. Every summer, Sydney’s newspapers contain accounts of drownings at surf beaches or fishermen swept off rocks.
The hazards of the ocean inevitably result in the loss of irreplaceable lives. Yet the sense of tragedy is magnified if the person happens to drown while swimming between two red-and-yellow flags - the area patrolled by lifeguards. Conversely, those who swim outside the flags, while their deaths are no less tragic, are more likely to be viewed as somehow complicit in the disaster that befell them, a view summarised in the oft-heard phrase “they knew the risks”.
In extreme cases, we might feel no sympathy at all for those who are dragged out to sea from precarious rocky fishing-spots - we might shrug and say “they brought it on themselves”. What is going on here? Advertisement And what has any of this to do with young people navigating the overlapping years of formal education, career initiation and adulthood? Education/Technology - » Picnik: Web Based Photo Editing… Ballinagetskilled2006 » home.