How to Create Your Own Successful Podcast | PCMag My favorite podcast, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, from National Public Radio's WHYY in Philadelphia, has featured many well-known guests, from Hillary Clinton to comedy legend Mel Brooks. But what draws me in is Gross's warm rapport with her guests. It reminds me, as a journalist, to listen closely to those I interview and ask intelligent, relevant questions. It's a great time to experiment with this medium, since podcasts are drawing increasing attention from media companies. Looking to get into this expanding and potentially lucrative medium? What Is a Podcast? At its most basic, a podcast is a digital audio program or recording, similar to a radio or television show, that can be downloaded from the internet or made available to and accessed from various mobile devices. There are important distinctions, though. Types of Podcasts There are a number of formats you can choose for your podcast. Interview: Like the Fresh Air podcast, this is the most common format. How to Tell It's a Podcast
Over 1,000 Writing Prompts for Students Note: We have 300 new argumentative writing prompts to add to this list. Sign up for our free Learning Network newsletter. Receive new writing prompts in your inbox every week. Of all the resources we publish on The Learning Network, perhaps it’s our vast collection of writing prompts that is our most widely used resource for teaching and learning with The Times. We’ve published iterations of this post in the past — 200, 401 and even 650 prompts — but never before have we gathered all our prompts, for both personal and argument writing, into one categorized list. Admittedly, the list is huge.
"Pecha What?" Exploring Pecha Kucha as Formative Assessment - Royal Holloway Staff Intranet I designed and delivered a 3rd year undergraduate module titled Global Marketing that ran at the School of Management for the first time in the spring term 2016. The course hosted 206 students and comprised 2 consecutive lectures and 10 workshops each week. Two coursework assignments contributed to the final mark of a student. Pecha Kucha as Formative Assessment: I decided to use Pecha Kucha student presentations as an innovative and technology-enabled technique of providing students with formative assessment. Pecha Kucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is a highly visual and fast paced presentation format that uses Power Point as a facilitating software (Klentzin et al. 2010; Beyer et al. 2012). The Brief: The actual implementation of this teaching activity can be divided into 4 learning phases. 1. 2. 3. 4. Feedback: The analysis reveals six “learnings” that students achieved by preparing, giving, and receiving feedback on their Pecha Kucha presentation before handing in their written reports.
Teaching intelligence: how to take your classes online When the novel coronavirus first hit Singapore in January, universities were two to three weeks into a new semester. As the number of cases climbed, university administrators grappled with challenging questions of protocol and pedagogy. Today Covid-19 knocks on doors worldwide, and universities everywhere face unprecedented challenges. One of the strategies embraced by many universities has been to migrate classes online. For those of us who are accustomed to teaching face-to-face, this idea is unsettling, and I have had many email enquiries about how to make a swift transition to online teaching. Promote peer-to-peer learningMigrating lectures and even faculty-student interaction online is not that challenging. Fortunately, online platforms such as Zoom and the Minerva Project’s Forum offer mechanisms for small group conversation and student-to-student verbal and visual collaboration in addition to facilitating teacher-student dialogue. Can we design cheat-proof assessment?
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Do Laws That Ban Offensive Words Make the World a Better Place? Lawmakers in South Africa want to make hate speech a crime. Backers of the draft law say racist language can violate human rights and is not compatible with the nation’s values. Opponents say that criminalizing hate speech will erode freedom of expression and do little to heal the country’s racial wounds. Do laws that ban offensive words make the world a better place? In “Jail Time for Using South Africa’s Worst Racial Slur?” JOHANNESBURG — After thieves broke into her car, a white South African motorist lashed out at the responding black police officers. Students: Read the entire article, then tell us: — Do laws that ban offensive words make the world a better place? — Or, should the right to free speech trump our desire to end the use of hateful words? — South Africans aren’t the only ones who have considered banning an offensive word. — Which do you think is more effective in combating offensive language: government censorship or public education, or both?
12.11 Step nine: evaluate and innovate – Teaching in a Digital Age – Second Edition The last key ‘fundamental’ of quality teaching and learning in a digital age is evaluation and innovation: assessing what has been done, and then looking at ways to improve on it (for a more in-depth discussion of the issues involved in evaluating online learning, see Gunawardena et al., 2000) 12.11.1 Why evaluation is important For tenure and promotion, it is important if you are teaching to be able to provide evidence that the teaching has been successful. New tools and new approaches to teaching are constantly coming available. They provide the opportunity to experiment a little to see if the results are better, and if we do that, we need to evaluate the impact of using a new tool or course design. It’s what professionals do. 12.11.2 What to evaluate: summative In Step 1, I defined quality very narrowly: teaching methods that successfully help learners develop the knowledge and skills they will require in a digital age. The second criterion is to compare the grades. 12.11.5 Innovate 1.
Don't 'just Google it': 3 ways students can get the most from searching online Searching online has many educational benefits. For instance, one study found students who used advanced online search strategies also had higher grades at university. But spending more time online does not guarantee better online skills. Instead, a student’s ability to successfully search online increases with guidance and explicit instruction. Young people tend to assume they are already competent searchers. Their teachers and parents often assume this too. Read more: Most young Australians can’t identify fake news online Many teachers don’t explictly teach students how to search online. For six years, I studied how young Australians use search engines. Here are three things young people should keep in mind to get the full benefits of searching online. 1. Young people should explore, synthesise and question information on the internet, rather than just locating one thing and moving on. The parent writes this “answer” down and they begin the next (unrelated) topic – growing seeds. 2. 3.