College 2.0 is designed to look more closely at what young people hope to get out of college and what the experience actually provides. To gain greater insight into these questions, we will examine many of the challenges currently facing higher education in the United States including widespread concern about the costs of higher education, the difficulties associated with expanding accessibility, worries about the quality of education being provided, and the impact of technology, distance learning, and MOOCs on traditional institutions of higher education.
-Professor Abe Feuerstein
Project Description: Learning to create a podcast is an opportunity for you to reach beyond typical college writing assignments to address a broader audience. In today’s tech driven society, it is important to be able to be a critical consumer of media and one of the best ways to develop your skills in this area is to gain experience as a media producer. I like this assignment because it encourages your creativity, your ability to work together in groups, and helps you to understand the significant effort that must be invested when one wants to communicate ideas clearly. By becoming podcast authors, my hope is that you will come to see podcasts as a unique and compelling form of communication, and see yourself as a producers of media as well as a consumers.
Course: College 2.0(FOUN)
Instructor: Professor of Education, Abe Feuerstein
Project: 7-10 minute podcast
Students: 14
Semester: Fall 2014
Duration of Assignment: Entire Semester, 15 weeks
Technology: Zoom Recorder Kits, Whisper Audio Booth, iShowU, Audacity, WordPress
Class Assignment Blog: http://culturalgeography.blogs.bucknell.edu/
Additional Class Blog: http://podcastproduction.blogs.bucknell.edu/
Podcast Assessment
Podcast Rubric
College 2.0. Some of the questions that will guide the development of the course include the following:
- Why is higher education important for students as individuals and as members of society?
- Who gets into college and where do they go?
- Why does college cost so much?
- How important are college rankings? Academic Assessment? Accreditation?
- What are students learning?
- How does students’ social life support or hinder institutional goals?
- How has technology begun to change the nature of higher education?
- How might college look in the future?
Skills Learned:
- critical thinking
- digital literacy
- media literacy
- group collaboration
- interviewing
- communication
College 2.0: Scaffolded Semester Calendar
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Part 1: Analysis |
No grade — everyone completed this in class.
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Part 2: Pitch |
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Part 3: Production Plan with Annotated Bibliography |
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Part 4: Summary of Interviews |
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Part 5: Script with Quotes |
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Part 6: Draft Podcast Due for Peer Review |
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Part 7: Final Podcast and Reflection |
___/33 Group Grade on Finished Podcast ___/10 Assessment by Peers Comments: ___/3 Final Reflection on Podcast |
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Score |
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