Podcasting Essentials: What you need to know to launch your own podcast

by Rhett McDaniel Have you ever listened to a podcast and been inspired to make one of your own? You can! Producing academic podcasts around your course topics is a great way to help your students learn. In addition, your podcast would be accessible to the nearly 118 million podcast listeners all over the world….

Posted by Rhett McDaniel on March 4, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Events, News, Podcasting, Resource, workshop

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Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media

In this workshop, participants will be invited to consider how they might pursue a more open pedagogy through the creation and sharing of digital media. Andy Wesolek, director of digital scholarship and scholarly communications at the Vanderbilt Libraries, will explore the practice of open pedagogy and the benefits it can bring to faculty and to…

Posted by shephs2 on January 24, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Digital Pedagogy, Events, News, Resource, Teaching Workshops, workshop

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Digital Presence: Academic Podcasting

Why start a podcast as an academic? In this “Digital Presence” panel, we will learn about three academic podcasts, each with a different mission and audience. Law professor Ed Cheng is the producer of Excited Utterance, a long-running podcast featuring interviews with scholars in his research area (evidence and proof). Kate Stuart produces the Beyond…

Posted by shephs2 on October 6, 2021 in Digital Commons, digital presence, Educational Technology, Events, Podcasting, Zoom

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Spotlight Event: Teaching with Wikipedia

Wikipedia is home to over 55 million articles. The website is a valuable source for information, but it also has systematic knowledge gaps, as well as biases toward historically privileged perspectives. Vanderbilt political scientists Brooke Ackerly and Kristin Michelitch have been working to correct these gaps and biases by engaging their students as Wikipedia contributors. Students are, in…

Posted by shephs2 on September 16, 2021 in CFT Event, Digital Commons, Events, Online Education

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