3. @topgold
I Like Enable Ireland.
Joined by Nadine and Quartz with VoiceOver.
Nadine’s first Audioboo.
4. This #ELSS13 presentation invites peer review to an evolving process of
audio journaling (audiologs) as part of critical reflection.
We know:
-- Reflective learning enhances personal development.
-- Audio journaling challenges creative students.
-- Our Bring Your Own Device World reduces one barrier to entry.
-- Shared audio sparks development of community artefacts.
@topgold
5. @topgold
Good Habits
Help You
Learn
-- Reflective learning achieves
greater results when integrated
with audio blogging.
-- Effective audiologs rarely fit a
universal timetable.
-- Reflective audio journaling
augments but does not reduce
the primacy of written work.
-- Spoken thoughts offer a 360
feedback loop.
Begin with self-directed
analysis for reflective learning.
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Reflection
Described
-- Thinking with a purpose.
-- Being critical but not being
negative.
-- Analysing how effective your
learning is.
-- Questioning an probing.
-- Making judgments.
-- Drawing conclusions.Reflective learning plays an
important role in learning and
personal development.
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Reflection
Enticements
-- Reflection complements
study.
-- When you reflect, you clarify
your thoughts.
-- Think out loud about difficult
assignments.
-- Use your audiolog to think
about how academic topics
relate to other areas of your
experience.
Some factors may entice
students to embrace reflective
audio journaling.
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Essential
Characteristics
of Audio Logs
-- The process should be quick.
-- They capture initial thoughts,
unformed opinion or personal
responses to events.
-- Themes emerge after several
dozen episodes.
-- When bundled, the thematic
collection can enhance an
ePortfolio.
-- Recordings should be in the
first person.
Several characteristics identify
an audiolog.
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We Trust the
Human
Voice.
"Levels of trust, commitment,
and satisfaction from users all
appear to be positively affected
by the use of the human voice in
social media.“
Doctoral research by Hyojung Park,
University Missouri.
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Identifiable
Characteristics
of Audio Logs
-- Explore events, don’t merely
list them.
-- Share eureka moments.
-- Expect feedback from an open
community.
-- Listen to related textual and
audio commentary.
-- Commit to a regular schedule.
-- Follow listeners to their main
hunting grounds.
Several characteristics identify
an audiolog.
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Audioboo is free.
You get three minutes
of recording with a basic
account.
I paid £60 to get 30
minutes of time for each
recording.
Audioboo allows an
unlimited number of
recordings.
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Getting
Started
-- Write down an honest
thought.
-- Forget about assessment.
-- Revisit earlier audio segments.
-- Listen to others.
-- Reflect about your past
actions, decisions and learning
events.
-- Know that getting into a
groove takes time.
Everyone can talk. But it takes
time to get your real voice.
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Look for the
Narrative.
-- Why did it happen?
-- Who was there?
-- When did it unfold?
-- Where were you?
-- How does it fit in?
-- What was said?
The segues are the glue.
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Where to
Create
Audio.
-- Comfortable corner.
-- Mindfulness session.
-- Immersive birdsong.
-- Tasting salt water spray.
-- Touching aromatic textures.
-- Feeling wood chips underfoot.
-- Holding a mug of coffee.
-- Plugged into the sound track
of your life.
People have their own creative
spaces.
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Grading the
Work
-- Are you collecting objective
and reflective data to make
sense of the experience?
-- Do you recognise the
recurrence of learning events?
-- Is your interpretation a logical
outcome of your observations?
-- Do you reflect on a concept
you learned in class or while
reading?
-- Are your reflective sessions
about the same length of time?
We grade the process of
reflection and not the content
in the reflective audiolog.
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Where
Reflective
Journaling Fits
-- Cognitive coaching
-- Emotional Literacy
-- Action Research
-- Adolescent Literacy
-- Standards-based instruction
-- Emergent Curriculum
-- ePortfolio
-- Constructivism
-- Formative Assessment
Learning the skills required in
effective reflection journaling
applies to the real world.
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Basic
Equipment
-- A small notebook.
-- Short outline of thoughts.
-- Rough sketches.
-- Smartphone with data
connection.
-- Last generation iTouch.
-- Unlocked smartphone with wifi.
-- Recording app.
-- Audioboo.
-- Soundcloud.
-- Voicebo.
-- Micbud with windshield.
Many students come
equipped.
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Helpful
Oases
-- LinkedIn Group “Let’s Talk Here”.
-- Study Skills Suggestions from Open
University.
-- DCU handout on reflective learning.
-- King, Keeping a Learning Journal,
2001.
-- The Audio Community on Google
Plus is bit.ly/audiog.
-- Listen to @documentally,
@topgold, @boydjane, @braillesnail
and their cross-talk.
-- Ira Glass and This American Life.
-- Radiolab.
-- Kristal Norton’s blog
It’s easy to find inspiration.
39. Let’s connect and share.
@topgold
Bernie.Goldbach AT LIT.ie
InsideView.ie
Editor's Notes
I blog at www.insideview.ie, talk at audioboo.fm/topgold and share videos at youtube.com/topgold including several supporting this presentation when I made it on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in Aungier Street, Dublin, Ireland.
We started an enhanced e-crit process in LSAD this year.
Through action agencies like Enable Ireland, we can enhance the accessibility of our learning materials.
Definition from wikipedia.
Students often have smartphones to complement their traditional journals.
Hanging Out , Messing Around , and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media by Mizuko Ito covers the idea.
Reflective audio journaling involves several factors. Social networking. Identity management. Creating content. Organising content. Repurposing content. Filtering content. Self presenting.
Ruth Maher on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
Annotate your reflections in a journal and talk about them in audio.
You can become an authority by articulating a position.
That’s @Documentally with @MyDolans in Limerick.
Audio blogging is a different approach to keeping a reflective journal.
There’s an emotive quality in voice that helps create the impression of trusted authority.
Audio blogging is a different approach to keeping a reflective journal.
We use Audioboo.fm to share stories and to connect with listeners.
We connect with lecturers in other third level institutions through Google Plus.
And some of the most meaningful audio commentary comes via direct audio message.
G+ offers very controlled private conversations.
Most people can talk when door-stepped.
More at http://audioboo.fm/boos/229779-out-of-water
Some of the stars show places where we made Audioboos.
More from Paul Hopkins at vipodcasting on Audioboo in an episode at http://audioboo.fm/boos/1363053-are-you-defined-by-your-accent-clairerandall
Shot of the brother’s Ford F-150.
Art journaling can spark major leaps in creative thought, especially snippets from http://kristalnorton.com/blog/
The best stories fold into one another and @sassycat38 is a master storyteller.
Most people can talk when door-stepped.
Everyone should know where they’re most creative. Time slots will vary.
Most people can talk when door-stepped.
Our social audio spills into a Google Plus Community.
We connect with lecturers in other third level institutions through Google Plus.
The photo is a screenshot snapped on my iTouch during a Google Hangout.
Skill sets from LinkedIn.
In many case, this proves BYOD is already in the classroom.
There are lots of folks talking. Christian Payne in the UK is @documentally. Jane Boyd in Canada is @boydjane. Amy Rowe, a Braille-reading Brit, is @braillesnail. Ira Glass is an award-winner public broadcaster.
I watch Junior Infants create audiologs.
Being discoverable enhances your online credibility.
I’m very findable. I blog and talk about education, technology and being a dad to a very creative couple of kids.