additional resources on podcasting

About Podcasting in Education

• Educause, an association of educators that seeks to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, has resources about podcasting in higher education including their brief, “Seven Things You Should Know About Podcasting.”
• Stanford on iTunes. Stanford University has made a number of campus events, including concerts and lectures available to the public as podcasts. Linking to this site allows you to enter the Stanford area of Apple’s iTunes Music Store if you have iTunes installed on your computer.
• Duke University’s Digital Initiative site features a summary report on their freshman iPod distribution program and descriptions of courses utilizing podcasting and iPods. 
• Purdue University began offering a number of its lectures as “Boilercasts” available to the general public in the fall of 2005. 
• University of Missouri released a white paper on Podcasting and Vodcasting which explains the technology and discusses implications for its use in higher education. 
• Elliot Masie’s Podcast on How to Podcast.  Masie, an international expert on e-learning, has created a podcast about how to podcast which includes how to incorporate phone interviews.

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• DoIT’s Academic Technology ePedagogy series featured a presentation on podcasting on October 21, 2005. Richard Hoops of the Aquatic Life Sciences Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about the EarthWatch radio program which is now available as a podcast.  Alan Wolf of the DoIT discusses tools and resources for creating and receiving podcasts.

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• Learning Circuits, an online resource offered by the American Society for Training and Development featured an article, “Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning” by Eva Kaplan-Leiserson that offers some valuable insights into implications of podcasting for learning. 

 

Using copyrighted materials in podcasts

Instructors who receive an Adaptation award for podcasting will be utilizing an area of the Apple iTunes Music Store to deliver podcast files to students.  Students will access the files in the iTunes Music Store via a link from the course Learn@UW site.  Logging into Learn@UW involves an authentication step that will limit access to registered students.  Once they access them, students can download the podcasted files. 

If your podcast contains content that should not circulate beyond registered students, such as copyrighted material created by others, you should explain to students that these downloaded files should not be shared with others outside the course.

In addition, if you are considering inclusion of copyrighted audio works by others in your podcast, you should: 

•  seek permission from the owner(s) of the work(s) or
•  determine if the use of the work(s) you are planning fits the following four criteria for educational "fair use:”
  1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
  2. The nature of the copyrighted work;
  3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
  4. The effect of the use upon the potential market value of the copyrighted work

The following resources provide more detailed explanations and information about fair use of copyrighted materials:

1. The United States Copyright Office
2. The University of Minnesota’s Copyright Information and Education site, which includes an online “Copyright Decision Map” and a “Fair Use Analysis Tool” that can help you make more informed decisions.
3. Bound By Law? (Tales from the Public Domain)
   Scholars at the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain have created a highly readable comic book that covers many issues involved in fair use.

Updated: February 21st, 2007

 

Copyrighting your podcasts

Thinking about copyrighting your podcast? You may want to license it through the United States Copyright Office or the Creative Commons organization.

1. The United States Copyright Office, offers information about provisions of US copyright laws and serves as a registry for licensing copyrights for individual works.
2. The Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that offers licenses that protect the rights of the owner of original works while encouraging some uses of them by others

 

Music and other audio for podcasts

A short musical signature at the beginning and end of your podcast adds interest and helps your students recognize your podcast. However, using excerpts of copyrighted music in this way might not be considered fair use since it might not be deemed essential to the instructional purpose of the podcast. If you want to include music for this purpose in your podcast, consider the sources below. 

The resources listed may also have audio files of historical speeches and proceedings that may be relevant to the instructional purpose of your podcast.

1. Some of the music and other sound files displayed online in the Library of Congress’ American Memories collection are copyright-free.  Please see the general guidelines the US Copyright Office has provided about use of materials at the Library of Congress. 
2. The Creative Commons group hosts collections of audio materials.  Some of these, which include music, sounds, and Supreme Court proceedings, are licensed under the Attribution-Share Alike license, which allows many types of reuse, as long as the original artist is attributed.
3. Create your own music (or have a student create it) using music recording software like Sony Acid Music Studio for Windows or Apple’s GarageBand for Macintosh, both available from the DoIT Tech Store.