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Podcasting the sciences – a practical overview Barsky, Eugene; Lindstrom, Kevin

Abstract

University science education has been undergoing great amount of change since the commercialization of Internet a decade ago. Mobile technologies in science education can encompass more than the proximal teaching and learning environment. Podcasting, for example, allows audio content from user-selected feeds to be automatically downloaded to one’s computer as it becomes available online, and then later transferred to a portable player for user’s consumption at a convenient time and place. Enjoying a phenomenal growth in mainstream society, podcasting are asynchronous and could be provided at a distance from a classroom. This paper reports a case study from the University of British Columbia that implemented podcasting for physics content. It presents the rationale for, technical details and step-by-step guide to creating podcasts in the sciences.

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Title
Podcasting the sciences – a practical overview
Creator
Barsky, Eugene; Lindstrom, Kevin
Publisher
ALA
Date Issued
2008-11
Description
University science education has been undergoing great amount of change since the commercialization of Internet a decade ago. Mobile technologies in science education can encompass more than the proximal teaching and learning environment. Podcasting, for example, allows audio content from user-selected feeds to be automatically downloaded to one’s computer as it becomes available online, and then later transferred to a portable player for user’s consumption at a convenient time and place. Enjoying a phenomenal growth in mainstream society, podcasting are asynchronous and could be provided at a distance from a classroom. This paper reports a case study from the University of British Columbia that implemented podcasting for physics content. It presents the rationale for, technical details and step-by-step guide to creating podcasts in the sciences.
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33714 bytes
Subject
Podcasting; Library; Web 2.0; Science and Engineering Library
Genre
Article
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-01-22
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0077891
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3848
Affiliation
Library, UBC
Citation
Barsky E., & Lindstrom K. Podcasting the Sciences: A Practical Overview. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2008.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Eugene Barsky and Kevin Lindstrom
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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