This week, we were to develop a plan for a podcast series, then produce an initial podcast for that series. I am moving to a new position at a school that is rolling out iPads 1:1 for students. It seemed like a natural for me to create a podcast series that would focus on simple, effective ways for the teachers using iPads to learn tips to better integrate them into classroom process, student workflow and into the academic curriculum overall. So, I envision a weekly podcast series entitled "Easy Peasy iPads in the Classroom." The first week's podcast focuses on a basic component of classroom workflow, which is getting students work conveniently, and simply, from their iPad to the teacher so the work can be assessed. This episode uses Google Docs and Gmail as the focus for that student to teacher workflow.
Click on Easy Peasy iPads in the Classroom to download and listen to my podcast.
One big take away for me from this assignment is that, in hindsight, it would have been a much more effective result if this podcast was, instead, a multimedia presentation of some type. Verbalizing instructions about setting up labels and folders in Gmail, without any sort of visual cues, is a tough way to learn something. It would have been much more effective with a couple of simple screen shots to assist the learner in understanding where to click, what pop up or other information on the screen to expect. A few key screenshots would also make it easier for the learner to understand the overall order of tasks to accomplishing setting up the process correctly. Simply giving them visual reference points ("pages" in a presentation, for instance), that they could flip back and forth within would have made the learning process much easier. So, I believe the Message Design could have been further worked to truly see what I should have included (the visual components) before I created the audio-only version.
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