Podcasting a Physics Lecture

McDonald, James E. R.

doi:doi:10.1119/1.2999066

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The Physics Teacher -- November 2008 -- Volume 46, Issue 8, pp. 490

Podcasting a Physics Lecture

James E. R. McDonald

University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

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The technology of podcasting, or creating audio or video files that can be subscribed to over the Internet, has grown in popularity over the past few years. Many educators have already begun realizing the potential of delivering such customized content, but most efforts have focused on lecture-style humanities courses or multimedia arts courses. At the University of Hartford, I have made audio recordings of physics lectures available as podcasts for four semesters. Despite the fact that physics is math-intensive and inherently visual, the students have found the podcasts to be very useful.

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physics education, educational aids, educational courses, video retrieval, audio systems, Internet, microphones

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01.30.Bb

Publications of lectures (advanced institutes, summer schools, etc.)
01.30.Xx

Publications in electronic media
01.50.H-

Computers in education

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Online Oct 2008

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0031-921X (print)

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American Association of Physics Teachers

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2999066

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While it is not the goal of this article to give instruction in the technical aspects of podcasting, some general information and links may be found at the author's University of Hartford website, http://www.cs.hartford.edu/~mcdonald.
Dave Jobbings, “Exploiting the Educational Potential of Podcasting,” Russell Educational Consultancy and Productions (April 2005) at: http://www.recap.ltd.uk/articles/podguide.html.
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, “When iPod goes collegiate,” Christian Science Monitor (19 April 2005).
Brock Read, “Lectures on the go,” Chron. High. Educ. (Oct. 28, 2005).
University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Podcasting at University of Wisconsin, Madison” at: http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/index.html.
Mikael Blaisdell, “Academic MP3s >> Is it time yet?” Campus Tech. (March 2006).
Apple website, “Podcasting in Education” at: http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/.
Cristina Silva, “Podcast craze hits classrooms,” Boston Globe (July 11, 2006).