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“Part 2 on MLFTC’s IgnitED Labs with Dr. Sean Leahy, Director of Technology Initiatives, and Jodie Donner, Lead Technology Strategist and Head of IgnitED Labs. ”
This is the second of our two-part interview with Claire and Hannah from the Slice of PI podcast. We had so much to say in our interview they had to split it into two episodes (IgnitED Labs Interview Part 1).
For more information on the labs discussed, please head over to the IgnitED Labs website to see what we’ve been up to.
It was a privilege to present to the highly engaged faculty and staff colleagues in attendance on Friday morning for our talk on Promoting Agency and Inclusion through an International Podcast Project. We received lots of great questions and enjoyed the conversation on how this project can be adapted to many different disciplines and courses. It was also a good opportunity to discuss how the use of short-form audio recordings can be a valuable instructional tool that has high impact with low cost to produce. I enjoyed the opportunity to play a sample form our pilot episode of the International Podcast Project as well.
For details on the presentation and other talks featured at the 2017 Teaching Festival see the entire Teaching Festival Lineup.
Following the successful inaugural International Podcast Project, my fellow colleagues and I have compiled the top-voted student podcasts from the project into the pilot episode (ep.0) . This pilot podcast contains the peer-voted top two podcasts for each course that participated in the project. There were a total of six courses participating including two from the main campus in St. Louis, and one course from the Leiden campus. Geneva campus, Vienna campus, and Thailand campus.
I will share much more in the near future on the entire project details including an resources kit for anyone who would like to take this project and adapt it. In short this was an international cross-campus project in which the international campuses of Webster University Media Communications departments collaborated on a student podcast project.
Once all podcasts were created, they were uploaded to SoundCloud accounts and shared with a paired class from a different international campus. Students then voted and provided peer feedback on the other classes podcasts. Once the final voted list was completed, I compiled the podcasts into a single finished podcast episode for the International Podcast Project.
