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This session will be an informal panel on webcasting which will use the webstream associated with an open digital storytelling course (DS106) at Univ. of Mary Washington as an example of the power of open web radio to inspire experimentation, foster creativity, establish community, and provide a platform for informal learning and collaboration.
DS106 participants use the course radio station to showcase their audio assignments but anyone interested is welcome to upload audio files that will stream on ds106radio. An ever-growing number of us have also been experimenting with live broadcasts which have proven to be a kind of a community bonding experience, not to mention a ton of fun. Live programming on DS106 radio ranges from brief field reports (including, most notably, Scott Lo's compelling status reports after the massive earthquake in Japan to multi-participant guitar jam sessions to conference presentations to themed sets of songs interspersed with commentary to free-form radio mayhem. Live broadcasts have given the handful of DS106Radio faithful a way of "playing radio" and have proven a tremendously powerful tool for learning, experimenting with, and pushing the limits of the medium.
This informal and likely to be raucous panel will feature some of the most frequent contributors to DS106Radio: Jim Groom, Grant Potter, Zack Dowell, Giulia Forsythe, Alan Levine, D'Arcy Norman, Mikhail Gershovich, Jason Toal, Brian Lamb and GNA Garcia. Participants will discuss some of the technical aspects of DS106Radio but will focus primarily on the ways in which the webstream and its context within a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) has enabled a formation of a community (aided by fervent Tweeting) and all manner of experimentation. The panel will likely feature audio clips of past broadcasts, (if we're lucky) a live call from Scott Lo in Japan, and will itself likely be broadcast live over DS106Radio.
SPEAKERS' BIOS
Mikhail Gershovich is the Director of the Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College, CUNY. He has given lots of talks on film, new media, and teaching with blogs. Most of them were not boring. http://thisevilempire.com
Jim Groom is an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington. He is the mastermind behind the DS106 MOOC and is not really a Reverend. Ok, kind of. http://bavatuesdays.com
Alan Levine, aka Cogdog, is a pioneer of Digital Storytelling and is currently unemployed (by choice) planning an epic summer road trip of photography and visiting people in his network. http://cogdogblog.com
Giulia Forsythe works as the Special Projects Facilitator for the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Educational Technologies at Brock University in St.Catharines, Ontario. http://gforsythe.ca/
Scott Lo is an educator and audio enthusiast based in Tokyo. He tells everyone he meets that his Tokyo Calling Podcast is Japan's first podcast. http://tokyocalling.org
D'Arcy Norman is an educational technology consultant and researcher, working in the Teaching & Learning Centre at the University of Calgary. He is a grad student, studying the effect of software design and pedagogical affordances on communities of learning. http://darcynorman.net
Brian Lamb is an Emerging Technologies Discoordinator, CTLT UBC, Vancouver, Canada. http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/ and http://abject.ca
Jason Toal is an educational technologist at SFU and mashes mad beats on #ds106radio - http://jasontoal.ca/
Grant Potter works with the UNBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Technology researching and developing educational technologies. He is an aspiring bootstrappist, hacker of gadgets, maker of noise, stomper of terra, and blogger at http://networkeffects.ca
GNA Garcia intends to finish her PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut whenever she gets around to it. She is currently, and happily unemployed. She is a gypsy rogue scholar who loves to tell stories—her own and those of other folks—to whomever will listen. http://gypsyroguescholar.tumblr.com and http://gnagarcia.wordpress.com/
Zack Dowell is an Instructional Design and Development Coordinator at Folsom Lake College. When he’s not doing that, he’s circuit bending, making noise, or gardening organically, sometimes all on the same day. http://www.noiseprofessor.org/
