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Sara BThis article details the approach of one professor in a college literature course. However, the ideas are applicable to many kinds of classroom.
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Brandi CaldwellUsing podcasts in lit class
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Ms. Stern- about college course but lessons applicable and interesting reflection
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Barbara LindseyPeter Schmidt instructor, Swarthmore College
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This podcast project tied in very well to a literature course, because in addition to teaching students about particular works of fiction, the key
skill modeled when students quote and expand on each other's words is
that thinking about cultural works is a collaborative process that
happens in dialogue, not only in isolation. Cultural objects
(including novels) are not static; they circulate, they are events. We
may receive them privately, as when we read or work on a computer, but
the process is not complete until we take the next step, which is to
re-connect with others. We get ideas about interpretation from others,
improve them (we hope) on our own, then place these ideas back into the
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Each podcast assignment consisted of a "podcast pair" (two podcasts); students made a five-minute reading of a passage from a novel, coupled with a five-minute discussion of that passage: why the student chose it, what details were most important, what themes and issues the passage raised, and how the passage related to the rest of the novel. These podcasts were posted on a server and all students in the class were required to listen to selected podcasts on what they were reading before coming to class discussions.
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Rudy Garns"The course is a survey of important novels published by U.S. authors since World War II. Shared themes include war, peace, complex personal and family histories, U.S. state power, border-crossings, and the use of fiction to narrate crises in individual and national identities. Students learn to vary their interpretive techniques so as to appreciate tragedy vs. comedy, satire, and farce. This is one of a number of survey courses offered by Swarthmore's English Department designed to introduce students to a wide range of authors, historical contexts, and interpretive techniques." (Academic Commons)
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Julia Lesagetells specific assignments and how it went
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Nathan ReinDescription of a large-enrollment (46 students) American literature that incorporated student podcasting into the course. The professor had students choose five-minute excerpts from the primary texts and read them aloud, then record a five-minute commenta
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