past event
Podcast Creation Essentials: How to Leverage Podcasting in Education
January & February 2025
Join us at LDDI’s Studio B Discovery Lab for an insightful exploration of podcasting in education. Learn about the impactful role of podcasts in teaching and learning, including benefits such as increased engagement, as well as important considerations for educators looking to integrate podcasts into their curriculums.
Discover cutting-edge tools like Descript for easy editing and Spotify for hosting and analytics, enhancing your podcast production. We’ll also cover microphone selection and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve audio quality and ensure a professional sound.
This presentation will also provide practical strategies for podcast success, including structuring your content effectively, preparing thoughtful questions, and employing storytelling techniques to maximize impact.
How It Works: This presentation is available on demand as a field trip experience at Studio B Discovery Lab. Faculty of Education instructors can book a session and bring their students for an engaging, hands-on learning opportunity. Faculty of Education instructors, faculty, and staff are also welcome to book a visit to experience the presentation individually or with a group.
For booking contact us at lddi.educ@ubc.ca
Location: Studio B Discovery Lab – Scarfe 1009
Facilitators: LDDI Team
Podcasting as Creative Pedagogy
Tuesday, March 11 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join us for a panel discussion that showcases creative and emerging uses of podcasting for teaching and learning. Designed for faculty, staff and students, this panel will explore how to leverage podcasting to enhance multimodality, accessibility, student engagement and connection to land and place. At the same time, it will unveil the creative and technical process of podcast production, including low-tech recording, editing, and sharing strategies and opportunities for collaboration.
Panelists: Dr. Robert VanWynsberghe, Dr. Iris Berger & Dr. Daniel Cox
Location: Online (Zoom)
Creativity, Play & Spontaneity for Educators
Tuesday, April 1 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Being creative and integrating play into university teaching can feel like too much work, chaotic, and even inappropriate: after all, what’s so playful about teaching Dewey, Deleuze, or Derrida? And, where is there even space in the curriculum?
Yet, not everything in teaching needs to be preplanned, prepped, predicted and predictable. Spontaneity can further safety in the classroom. And play in teaching can even be a way of challenging the neoliberal and colonial structures in which we work.
In this interactive, participatory workshop, Erica Mohan and Jude Walker (EDST) will show how creativity, play and spontaneity is an attitude we can adopt in our teaching rather than something to add onto our already packed syllabi. They will share their own experiences and introduce participants to activities they have used in their classes, from games to role-plays to improv and artistic playful engagements, all of which support risk-taking, make teaching and learning more fun and further the learning of both teachers and students.
This workshop welcomes faculty members, instructors, TAs and graduate students — anyone who teaches adults in some way — who are interested in exploring how creativity, play and spontaneity can improve their pedagogy and bring more joy to their teaching.
Presenters: Erica Mohan & Jude Walker
Location: Neville Scarfe, Room 1007