Podcasting Expert Comes to CPCC Friday 3/30/2007

CPCC's Instructional Development and eLearning area and "THE Geek Fest" are proud to welcome technologist and podcasting guru, Rick Leinecker, to the Central campus Friday, March 30th!

Rick is doing innovative things with instructional technologies, media and podcasting at Rockingham Community College. We have invited him to visit us and share his wealth of knowledge and savvy ideas with the CPCC community. Learn about podcasting, how to create your own podcast, and how to integrate podcasts with your curriculum to enhance student success.

Date: Friday 3/30/2007
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: PD304

About Rick Leinecker

Software engineer by profession, Director of Programming and Online Services at COMPUTE magazine; Director of Technology at Intracorp, Inc; Senior Software Engineer at MCI's digital imaging division, Senior Software Engineer at Landmark Communications, Senior Software Engineer at Salem Communications, Assistant Professor at Rockingham Community College; author of 20 technical books and hundreds of technical articles; creator and programmer for dozens of software entertainment titles; international speaker for VSLive, the FBI, and Microsoft; consultant in the Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem area.

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Why Podcast? Some say we are not sure if this technology will continue to be relevant and useful.

Podcasting Pervades Our Culture: Barack Obama announced his candidacy via a webcast. Hillary Clinton used webcasting to talk about her candidacy, and there were so many people viewing it that the bandwidth of the provider wasn't sufficient. Most young people are on myspace and facebook where MP3s are very popular.
Our Society Is Focused On Access: Having content 24/7 is now becoming the defacto standard. We need to adapt to this expectation. Moving into this new context gives us new perspectives.
Personal Growth: Instructors can hear themselves and make corrections in their presentation.
Different Learning Styles: Help hold attention, more relevance, confidence in the process and program, satisfaction with the outcomes. We can provide all of these with podcasts.
Learning Models: Run through all six levels of Blum's taxonomy. Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis. You can address all levels of thinking with podcasting.
Instruction: Can present additional material that won't fit into the classroom time.
Collaboration: Take concepts from various disciplines and incorporate them into a podcasts. You can take advantage of interdisciplinary presentation without having to bring visitors into a classroom.
Pragmatic Concerns: Mitigate absences and review for students
Post Additional Resources: Make additional resources available.