Podcasts Session Format: Cyber Zed Shed Friday, March 13    4:00 PM - 4:20 PM     Session Number/Code: CZS Room:  Cyber Zed Shed Theater Presenter(s): Clarence  Maybee MLIS Information Literacy Librarian, Colgate University  Program Description: Colgate University's Collaboration for Enhanced Learning (CEL) group pairs librarians with information technologists to work with faculty to embed appropriate technology into course curriculum. This session describes a collaboration between Ray Nardelli, Manager of Digital Media, Clarence Maybee, Information Literacy Librarian, and Colgate professor Tyrell Haberkorn to develop a semester-long podcasting project for the students in an Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies course. Team members developed assignments and activities designed to teach students' new media skills while extending student knowledge of course content. Each student recorded an audio essay and edited it using Audacity audio editing software (audacity.sourceforge.net) for a podcast series focusing on silenced or marginalized conflicts. With student permission, the recordings were uploaded to iTunes allowing students to share their views of a selected conflict with listeners outside the classroom. The expectations of the three collaborators were far exceeded as they watched the enthusiasm and efforts of the students working to craft podcasts - addressing questions of purpose, structure, and use of evidence to communicate persuasively in a new medium. Students recognized that this project took them beyond regurgitating facts to sharing their own points-of-view!