#InternationalPodcastDay 

https://internationalpodcastday.com/ 

International Podcast Day™ is September 30th and is an international celebration of the power of podcasts!  The celebration is a great opportunity to connect with fellow podcasters, podcast listeners, podcast enthusiasts, and leaders in the podcasting industry.  Help spread the word by telling your friends, sharing the celebration on your podcasts and social media feeds, and using #InternationalPodcastDay.  There are several ways to get involved and plenty to benefit from by taking part in International Podcast Day.  See our suggestions below.  But first, we must all “Start The Conversation” and share the power of podcasts!

Get Involved with International Podcast Day by:

• Use #InternationalPodcastDay to engage with others worldwide talking about the event
• Grab your mic and camera, ask someone about their favorite podcasts. Share the response on social media!
• Join in numerous events in your region and around the world
• Promote by posting the official banner image on your website.
• Play the International Podcast Day audio or video promo on your show
• Change your social media image to the International Podcast Day logo
• Explain to someone what a podcast is and get them hooked
• Share your favorite podcast with someone (coworker, friend, teammate)
• Send feedback to your favorite podcasters and tell them thank you
• Provide a rating and review in Apple Podcasts or other platforms
• Subscribe to a new show and talk about it using #InternationalPodcastDay
• Not a podcaster? Become one! (or think about it)

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The BreakDrink Genome Project 

Jeff told Laura he recently completed a DNA test. Curiosity about personal history, and really the genetic results are what they chat about in episode no. 18. Besides learning about Texas citizenship (apparently that is a thing), Jeff unpacks his DNA results he received from his test o’ spit.

Here are a couple of common DNA companies we shared:

• Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/
• 23andMe: https://www.23andme.com/
• There are SO many more, so you decide which DNA test is the best

Key ideas, notes, articles and interesting reads on the topic, we may have referred to during this episode:

• PBS: Finding Your Roots
• Following Your DNA Trail 
• More African Americans are Learning their Roots with Genetic Testing
• A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry
• NIH: The Human Genome Project
• The Mullingar Music School http://mullingarmusicschool.ie/ 
• Muiderslot: http://www.muiderslot.nl/en/ (Muiden castle in NLD)

@BreakDrink Podcast Shout Outs:

• Twice Removed https://gimletmedia.com/twiceremoved/
• Revisionist History http://revisionisthistory.com/ 
• Mogul https://gimletmedia.com/mogul/ 
• Homecoming https://gimletmedia.com/homecoming/ + The Lost Coast (free iBook) that parallels this podcast narrative (we cannot vouch for it, yet).

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FUN with Stats

In higher ed and academia we recognize that imposter syndrome is definitely a thing, but this can be tackled by doing the work, learning, and continuing to DO THE THINGS. One of the things we are working on and learning about these days are STATS! That is, examining statistics in research methods we are reading about in empirical literature while we consider develop our own research design. Just because you have a terminal degree (PhD, EdD or MFA), you should not terminate your research methods learning! In this episode we chat about stats, research design, data analysis, and how we’re still learning about stats. We also think doing the work, critically looking at research methods and meaning, and applying these sounds statistical methods into practice is a PROCESS ... it takes time and effort. Keep at it! You can do it!

A few platforms we mentioned for data analysis:

• R Studio https://www.rstudio.com/ + Cookbook for R
• SAS OnDemand for Academics https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/on-demand-for-academics.html
• Python https://www.python.org/
• SPSS https://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/spss/

The thing about correlation ... is not causation:

• Values of the Pearson R Correlation 
• What a p-value tells you about statistical data
• What’s a t-test?
• Power and Sample Size calculator
• Inference for Means: Comparing Two Independent Samples
• Designing Clinical Research - Sample Size Calculators

We chat about our graduate prep in statistics (psssst... we learn more by doing), here are a few courses of formal study we experiences:

• Intro (Basic) to Statistics: Survey Development & Instrumentation
• Research Design
• Multiple Regression
• Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) - nested data
• Multivariate Analysis
• Ethnographic Methods
• Netnography & Virtual Ethnography
• Big Data & Data Analysis 
• Latent Semantic Analysis (text mining)

@BreakDrink Stats Recommendations:

• Discovering Statistics (Formerly Statistics Hell) from Andy Field
• I Heart Stats: Learning to Love Statistics (Sociology) MOOC edx via NotreDameX
• Statistics and probability via Khan Academy 
• Probability and Statistics - Self Paced Online Course via Stanford U
• Data Analysis & Statistics via edX MOOC platform
• Statistics and R for the Life Sciences via HarvardX
• Online Advanced Analytics in Higher Ed Grad Cert via ASU
• Data, Analytics, and Learning edX MOOC via UTArlingtonX
• Data Analysis & Presentation Skills via PwC Coursera (try for free)

@BreakDrinK Reads:

Research Design, 3rd Edition - Creswell 

Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Design - Creswell & Plano Clark

Constructing Grounded Theory - Charmaz

Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research, 2nd - LeCompte & Schensul

Netnography: Redefined - Kozinets

Hamilton: The Revolution (audiobook)

Good Enough Now by Jessica Pettitt

@BreakDrink Podcast Listens/Watches

It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders -- 2x/week; There’s a week in review on Fridays with the “best thing that’s happened to you this week” feature from listeners who call in to share. So good!

Sincerely, X is created by the TED producers & Audible; These talks are anonymously shared -- it’s about the ideas and experiences, rather the personal or personality.  

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Back To School Goals 2017
In listening to fellow podcaster, @Katie__Linder’s reflections and questions on You’ve Got This, Episode 59: Preparing for a New Season, we were reminded that we have not taken any time out of our own schedule to think about our own #BackToSchool goals. We both like to set goals before the academic “new year” starts, but this year August was a bit much for both. The start of the school year took over -- so for episode no. 16 we're setting some goals now. 

In this @BreakDrink episode no. 15, we sit down with the questions posed from the #ygtpodcast. Listen to our own we started reflecting on what we’ve accomplished over the summer and we began thinking about the goals we want to reach (or score) ahead. You get why we’re casting a wide net with this futbol/soccer metaphor when you listen to our responses. 

If you’re thinking of setting some #BackToSchool goals -- it’s not too late. Here are a few questions to think about before you sit down to start planning the next school year, academic semester, or the end of 2017: 

1. How did the summer go? What are some things you really enjoyed? What went well the past few months?  
2. What is something that did not go as well or you were able to get to over summer, that you want to in the coming months?  What did you regret not prioritizing?
3. What are you most looking forward to about this new school year or academic semester? What is it that you're looking forward to in the next few months? 
4. Is there anything coming up in this academic year/semester you might be nervous about? Is there something you’ve been avoiding doing or thinking about because you don’t know how it will go?
5. How can you prepare yourself for this upcoming school year/semester, both for the good things that are happening and the things you’re not so sure about? 

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Harvey Relief with @ProfPeaton

As rain continues and flood damage impacts Texas after Hurricane Harvey, Jeff and Laura decide to share a few ways to offer relief and support for those in need. We appreciate the love and concern a number of you have expressed for our well-being, but we are a-okay. Our fellow Texans to the southeast are under water and they could really use your help. For this episode, we will talk to Paul Eaton who is in the midst of some flooding in Conroe, TX and share few ways you can donate to Harvey (and avoid being scammed), if you are so inclined.

There are a number of ways to get and offer help for Harvey. If you know people who are directly affected by Hurricane Harvey, FEMA recommends visiting www.nvoad.org/how-to-help/ Additionally, DisasterAssistance.gov includes a link to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s step-by-step guide to filing a flood claim, a map to locate the nearest FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers and instructions on how to apply for assistance. If you have questions about the help FEMA offers or the application process, call 1-800-621-FEMA (1-800-621-3362) or submit your query online. Or better yet, Find an open shelter near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362). You can also use the FEMA mobile app.

Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, are currently taking in residents from the flood and hurricane zones. This means the state of Texas needs your help to support these small towns who have moved into these shelters. Additional donations for various relief needs can be met by visiting the following websites -- and if you know of others, please tweet or comment where others can help: 

• Greater Houston Community Fund, specifically the Hurricane Harvey Relief fund, set up by the Mayor Sylvester Turner 
• Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County
• Portlight assists people with disabilities who have medical needs or require shelter as a result of Hurricane Harvey. 
• Houston Food Bank and the Food Bank of Corpus Christi
• Texas Diaper Bank need urgently need donations: http://www.texasdiaperbank.org/ 
• The Homeless Period Project of Austin distributes tampons, pads and other period-related items to those displaced by the storm.
• American Red is collecting donations for Hurricane Harvey: Disaster Relief
• Carter BloodCare covers hospitals in North, Central and East Texas. To donate, call 877-571-1000 or text DONATE4LIFE to 444-999.
• The United Way of Greater Houston flood relief fund to help with immediate & minor home repair. Visit their website to donate or text UWFLOOD to 41444.
• Airbnb has activated their Disaster Response Program where you can volunteer your place to stay for those who were evacuated from their homes & they will waive their fees
• Organizations Focused on People of Color for Harvey Relief/Support
• The L.G.B.T.Q. Disaster Relief Fund to help with recovery and those in need
• JJ Watt fund: https://www.youcaring.com/victimsofhurricaneharvey-915053 
• If you or anyone you know is in a crisis and you’re concerned about their mental well-being, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or text HOME to 741741 (https://afsp.org/)
• For Animal Lovers - the SPCA of Texas needs assistance: https://spca.org/give 
  • SPCA of Texas is in need of donations & support to help evacuated fur friends, including 123 cats from The Cattery shelter from Corpus Christi 
  • GreaterGood.org mutt foundation
• An amazing grassroots, user-generated list of resources in an open Google doc for community support/outreach: Hurricane Relief Efforts
• And a few more ways to help, donate, volunteer, and contribute to those who need aid.
• Call for suggestions to supporting Harvey Relief shared on the Student Affairs Pro Fb page.
• NPR lists a few ways to help those impacted by Harvey as well.
• Note from Department of Homeland Security: Special Announcement: How to Help Disaster Survivors in Texas 
• UPDATE: List Of Charities And Steps To Donate As Harvey Relief Grows
• Want to volunteer to help with Harvey relief? Here’s how you can get involved.

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What’s the PURPOSE of The Higher Ed Podcast Project? 

In this BONUS Pod No. 2 episode, @JeffJackson and @LauraPasquini, are joined by research collaborators @Katie__Linder and @JaimieLHoffman to discuss The Higher Ed Research Project. We know there is a growing number of podcasts being created and listened to support the professional learning and development of our higher ed peers.

Why Are We Exploring Podcasts in Higher Ed?

• To recognize and show value for the higher ed podcast community [We listen to a lot of podcasts ... and produce some of our own.]
• To highlight the growing number of podcasts that are relevant for learning, professional development, and then some in higher education
• To understand and explore the “State of Higher Ed Podcasts” - the empirical literature and why podcasts are emerging in the field 
• To conduct a meta-analysis of podcasting in higher ed: topics, hosts, delivery mechanisms, target audience, purpose, production, topics, etc.
• To share this media resource to other higher ed colleagues who might not know this wealth of professional development resources, e.g. create a repository of podcasts in higher ed, write op-ed pieces, blog, and podcast about podcasts (meta)

Let’s DEFINE what we mean by “PODCAST” for this project:

For research purposes, our definition of a podcast includes:

• the podcast content is created and shared to support professional development, learning, and/or information distribution
• the podcast has a target audience might include graduate learners (e.g. masters or doctoral researchers), professional school students (e.g. social work, medicine, etc.), staff/administration, and/or faculty in higher education
• the podcast is an audio and/or video format that can be subscribed, downloaded, and/or streamed from an electronic device (e.g. computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile)
• the podcast is a program, show, broadcast, and/or episodes with a specific purpose or topic focused on the higher education domain
• the podcast includes original content development intention: it was designed for a podcast, e.g.
• we are not including a recorded college/university lecture, conference panel/presentation, professional learning webinars, recorded meeting, etc. (unless it was edited to fit into a podcast)
  the podcast can be active or inactive 

What podcasts are you listening to or hosting/producing for higher ed professional learning and development? Please help us CURATE this list of podcasts that helps enhance the work you do in post-secondary education:

http://bit.ly/higheredpodcasts 

What about the archived podcasts? Are people still pod-listening to these? Questions/Issues:

• Changes in jobs/work/life = change in ability to podcast host/produce
• Institutional support or the culture of support on campus is low
• Professional development resource (“free”)
• Community engagement - “I am just one” on my campus
• Sponsorship -- both fiscal or just endorsed
• If there’s an archive of podcasts, are they still being used? What are their download rates?
• Are people actively producing content? Or actively promoting audio content on social media?

How will we research podcasts in higher ed? We’re still working this one out, but here’s what we’re thinking so far for research methodology: 

• Survey to gain a broad perspective/understanding of podcasts; open & closed questions
• Semi-structured interviews - podcast producers/hosts and listeners
• Content analysis of extant data - topics, transcripts, show notes, etc.
• Descriptive statistics for the state of podcasts 
• Are higher ed practitioners and faculty aware there are higher ed podcasts?
• How can we openly share our findings and resources we are gathering about higher ed podcasts to support P.D. & learning for our colleagues?

WHO is the sample population or how would we target this research for potential research outlets for publication?

• Students and learners in graduate programs and professional schools-- i.e. medical journal or healthcare related use for teaching & learning
• Professional development: faculty/academic development, practitioner learning, and training
• Student Affairs & Student Services/Support
• Teaching & Learning 
• Research and writing development

@BreakDrink Podcast Shoutouts

• Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, who also added to our open Google doc and addition to the Creative Commons column! Thanks so much, Bonni!
• You’ve Got This Podcast with Katie Linder: https://ygtpodcast.com/ share Q&A #2: Podcasting Basics Show Notes | Transcript | and Q&A #3: Podcasting Production Steps Show Notes | Transcript | + Splice for editing
• The Freelance - RJ McCollam reads the newsletter on the podcast; earlier version was more open Q&A
• The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast - The Student Affairs Collective
• BlogTalkRadio @BreakDrink [Archives 2010-2013] *tear*

Major Podcast Accessibility Props to @Katie__Linder for making her podcasts, You Got This & Anatomy of a Book, accessible transcripts+show notes (+ instructor’s guides on @RIA_podcast).

#Charlottesville 

In episode no. 14, Jeff and Laura take a minute to pause and discuss what’s been happening in this week’s recent events in Charlottesville, VA after a violent rally/protest over the taking down of the confederate statue of General Robert E. Lee. We are still forming our thoughts, but we do think it is a critical time to open up the dialogue about social justice/racial issues embedded within this protest, the messaging and response to the event, and what’s been happening since #Charlottesville in the United States of America. 

We are not finished processing, but we’ve been reading and listening to a lot of different voices -- so we thought we’d share a few recommended resources for you read, listen to, and more to help you engage and continue the conversation with those around you.

@BreakDrink Recommended LISTEN (Episodes rec’d + the whole podcast itself)

Politically Reactive - Charlottesville: Why did this happen and how do we move forward?

Rough Translation - Brazil in Black and White

It’s Been A Minute - Charlottesville and White People - Why Sam Sanders Only Quotes White People

Code Switch - Charlottesville

Sincerely, X - Episode 5: Equality Executive - We need to recognize “Unconscious Bias” in our social issues - gender, race, and more! 

Pod Save America - “Denouncing Nazis is so fucking easy.” with former @BreakDrink guest Julissa Arce 

@BreakDrink Episode no. 2 with Julissa Arce 

@BreakDrink Recommended READS

#CharlottesvilleCurriculum hashtag

Making Sense of Charlottesville: A Reader’s Guide

History of Robert E. Lee [History Channel does our fact check.]

The Charlottesville Syllabus - UVa Graduate Coalition

Beyond Ignorance via the Librarians on IHE

@ACPA says #ThisIsUs vs. NASPA Says #ThisIsNotUs (with many comments)

 A Critical Perspective : On Mentoring and Education in the Wake of Charlottesville

Resources for Educators to Use is the Wake of Charlottesville via Anya Kamenetz

Why Universities Won’t Punish Students at Rallies

#Charlottesville, the Christian Response, and Your Church's Call - Ed Stetzer

Charlottesville Violence Sparks New Worries About Safety During Campus Protests (#WhiteLivesMatter) <= How is this a thing??

McSweeny’s: AS YOUR DOCTOR, I AM PROTESTING THE REMOVAL OF YOUR TUMOR BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO ERASE YOUR MEDICAL HISTORY

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Tacos & Email
There are two pressing issues we discuss in this episode: tacos & email. There is an abundance of both. Take a listen to episode no. 13 as we talk about managing your digital self/data in email and more, and how to get the most out of the myriad of taco options in Texas.

Laura recently read 120 Tacos You Must Eat Before You Die and she is thinking about where her data living in the email realm thanks to the Note To Self podcast episode on leaving yahoo and changing email platforms. Both Laura and Jeff declare their love for tacos, soft shells, and jalapenos -- and their shared distaste for dealing with email, of course. Taco tally for number of times per week we each eat tacos:

• Laura: 2
• Jeff: 6 (a lot)

Talking about Tacos:

• Tex Mex definition/origin
• New Mexico Hatch Chiles are delicious, but different from TX
• Soft Tacos (corn or flour) are da bomb! Why is there a case for hard-shell tacos?
• Street Tacos are where it is at for both
• Rise of the Food Truck (history)
• Laura’s bucket list goal for breakfast tacos in the Big D
• Apparently Puffy Tacos are the Unofficial Food Mascot in San Antonio
• Cheers to the bean and cheese tacos!
• Butter flour tortillas + Cayenne pepper tortillas

In thinking about email, Jeff and Laura chat about the platforms and spaces they use for this type of computer-mediated communication channel. The score for email accounts we each have total: 

• Jeff: 5 
• Laura: 12

Clearly Laura is looking to bring down this number and perhaps do another digital clean-up 2.0. We talk a bit about email; however, there are greater stakes at hand as technology companies merge or takeover other entities in the tech world. What happens to those terms of service (TOS) you first agreed to when the company changes ownership? What are the possibilities for your information and data with this new owner? Will you stay with a platform or app if these TOS go against your personal privacy issues?

• Visualized acquisitions by the Big Five tech companies since 1985
• What do you gain/risk with these “free” emails? E.g. Is Gmail a risk? They have stopped scanning your email and selling targeted ads (apparently)
• Oath isn’t just a terrible name — it’s going to be a nightmare ad-tracking machine
• Yahoo Mail and Tumblr and Flickr: What Happens Now? Via NYT
• A Way to Own Your Social-Media Data
• Tumblr’s Unclear Future Shows that There’s No Money in Internet Culture
• Switching to encrypted emails, e.g. ProtonMail
• Jeff will judge your Hotmail/AOL email account. #TBT What Your Email Domain Says About You
• “To Do” List we’ve tried and use: Any.do, OmniFocus, and Todoist
• Have you thought about migrating to a new social media platform?
• Decluttering Your Digital Life
• How to Start Purging Your Digital Life
• How to delete your digital life
• Delayed PSA: Livejournal accounts and data are living on servers in Russia
• How to Download and Archive your Social Media Memories via Wired
• How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds via NYT
• On a creepy side of archiving: How to Save Your Digital Soul via MIT Technology Review
• Domain of One’s Own started at UMW http://umw.domains/ 
• Reclaim Hosting https://reclaimhosting.com/ 

We have made an oath, that is a promise that we will start to clean up our digital lives and archive content posted on social media and other sites we don’t own NOW. We’ll let you know how it goes and y’all need to hold us to it. We will do a check-in and update down the road to some of our own archiving solutions and strategies to reclaim our life online.

@BreakDrink Shout Out

Reply All Episode No. 100: Friends and Blasphemers discuss the LiveJournal takeover from Russia & then some.

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Can You Read Audio?

In episode no. 12, Laura breaks from her #ShutUpAndWrite session to talk with Jeff about audio books vs. print books. Is the medium the message? Does it matter? We reference audiobooks and how we listen or “read” and what it means to read with audiobooks. 

FYI: What is #ShutUpAndWrite, you ask? Scholarly time to get some research and writing done. But it does not have to be done in isolation.

Have you read _____. If it was an audio book what would you say? Did you read it? Or consume it, if you were listening to it? A few interesting reads...

• Does Listening Count as Reading?
• Is Listening to Audiobooks Really the Same as Reading?
• As Far As Your Brain Is Concerned, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’
• Science say reading actual books is good h/t @profpeaton
• Is listening to a book ‘cheating?’

Does how we take in knowledge and information, reading or listening, matter?

• The rise of “Speed Listening”
• Is speed reading actually possible?
• Apple is going to let podcast creators — and advertisers — see what listeners actually like
• Apple podcasts new analytics (formerly known as iTunes)
• We listen to audiobooks on: Overdrive and Audible

We give a hat tip to BreakDrink episode no. 8 where we talk about our love of library and getting back to reading you want to do. Much of our own reading experiences come from what we started to read and what genres we are drawn to. P.s. Laura welcomes a sci-fi book recommendation to dip into this genre.

How does narration or audio version of a book impact what we hear? 

We discussed listening to certain authors and how they impact our “reading” as we listen. One example is listening to Chuck Klosterman on an interview with Bill Simmons before listening to his audiobooks. But not ALL of his books were narrated by him, like his new book: What if We Were Wrong with the narration by a British female reader.  This threw off Jeff who already knew his voice. Laura thinks he should have bought the analog (print) format. Another example of storytelling and the delivery of the story that we love is done by David Sedaris. We listen, read, and hear him live -- the way he expresses himself in his short, satirical tales are brilliant. Here’s the FitBit article I mentioned published in the New Yorker called “Stepping Out.” Sorry JJ, you will have to actually read this one, but it’s worth it.

@BreakDrink Reading List

Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

Subterranean - James Rollins

No is Not Enough - Naomi Klein

Alexander Hamilton - Rob Chernow

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Death by Meeting - Patrick Lencioni

What If We Were Wrong - Chuck Klosterman

Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris

@BreakDrink Podcast Listens

NPR Wow in the World - a podcast for curious kids & their grown-ups; 2x per week

The Turnaround - Jesse Thorne flips the script to interview the interviewers; a few thoughts from Laura’s blog on tips and tricks for interviewing (research or podcasting)

.future - podcast from Gimlet and Microsoft; topics around technology and society for what lies ahead 

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Pondering Podcast Research in Higher Ed with @JaimieLHoffman

Have you heard people talking about podcasts lately? No wonder why. If you check the streams, there are now LOADS OF PODCASTS! What podcasts are being produced for and in higher education? What podcasts are YOU listening to or are you using to help you with your work in higher education? What podcasts help with your professional development in higher ed?

Please help us ADD TO THIS LIST of podcasts with podcasts you listen to for professional development in higher ed: http://bit.ly/higheredpodcasts

DEFINITION: What’s a podcast? Our definition for research purposes include...

• The content is shared to support professional and lifelong learning within the field of higher ed
• A produced show that is episodic that in someway; these are intended to be a shared live, as a media file (audio/video), and can be subscribed via a platform or streaming service
• These episodes/shows/broadcasts have a specific purpose (and perhaps a target audience) 
  • Inclusion: Original content intention -- it was intended to be a podcast and not another purpose; this could be a LIVE show that is later shared as a podcast
  • Exclusion: recorded college/university lecture, conference panel, conference presentation, or professional webinar (if not intended)
• Do archived podcasts count?: Maybe. If it’s not actively produced podcast, is it being used? Are episodes still being downloaded & listened to by you? Then yes -- please share!

PURPOSE: Why Are We Exploring Podcasts in Higher Ed?

1. Highlight Podcasts Relevant to Higher Ed Faculty & Professionals - for learning, professional development, and then some.
2. What’s the State of Higher Ed Podcasts [Empirical Literature Review from 2009 onward]?
3. What’s the state of podcasting and resources we could share with higher education colleagues? To create professional learning & PD repository of podcasts in higher ed
4. How and Why are There an Increasing Number of Podcasts Emerging in Higher Ed? [Study]
5. Provide Learning & Professional Development (PD) Resources for Higher Ed Colleagues - op-ed, i.e. podcasts (meta), blogs, and more!
6. Meta-analysis of podcasting in higher ed: topics, hosts, delivery mechanisms, target audience, purposes, topics, etc.

FOCUS: WHO is examining podcasting in higher ed? And HOW are they studying post-secondary podcasts? Let’s search the literature!

This could include teaching, researching, writing, discipline-specific, instructional design, study skills, student affairs, etc. Here is what we learned by searching the Scopus database for “podcast*” with the following terms “higher ed*”+“train*”+“learn*”+”professional develop*”+”profession*”+”teach*” to find 115 total articles which we’re sifting through what has been written from 2005-present. [All of this distributed work is being shared collectively in a Google spreadsheet, Dropbox, and perhaps later we’ll move the relevant literature into Mendeley]. In general, here are a few things we are sifting out of the literature so far and the notes we shared in our discussion:

• Supplement to a formal class or formal learning experience in K-12 and Higher Education; systematic literature review up to 2008 (Hew, 2009)
• Higher gain of knowledge from a podcast vs. a traditional textbook, findings from a randomized controlled trial (Back et al., 2017)
• Students authoring and producing podcasts as a form of assessment and learning in courses (Dale & Povey, 2009)
• Indie podcasters and independent podcasting trends (Markman, 2012)
• The rise of emergency medicine and critical care blogs and podcasts (2002-2013) could be one paper like this to show a broad perspective in higher ed (Cadogan et al., 2014) 
• Case based examples of using podcasts as open access resources for social work education (Fronek et al., 2016); Survey of learners perceptions of the podcast, but looking more at the professional development perspective; benefits, barriers, and content analysis.
• Automatic transcription for a Web 2.0 service to search for podcasts (Ogata et al., 2007)
• General shout out to healthcare professions for augmenting learning with podcasts, including: nursing, medicine, dental, physiotherapists, etc. 

Ponderings for A Podcast Study

Whatever happened to iTunes U?

iTunes is now re-branded as Apple Podcasts. 

5 Reasons Why You Should Transcribe Your Podcast via @3playmedia 

-Podcasts help provide listeners with multiple ways to engage with your content for learning and professional development +  a transcript from the audio/video recording and/or show notes available.

-It would be great to transcribe some podcasts for a content analysis and review AND give the podcasters transcripts to SHARE with their listeners. #WinWin

-Transcription services (shop & compare) + Trint.com subscriptions+pricing; Other transcription services we use, or perhaps mention: Transcript Divas, Rev, & Scribie 

-Audio quality varies on podcasts: Is this due to technical issues? How could transcripts help this audio quality or add to the media format? Would you follow-up to read the notes if your podcast offered it?

-Quality of podcasts has improved or can improve: There ARE “dog years” in podcasting and technology. It was only 4 years ago, but to Jeff it feels like 7-10 years.

-Conversations are the most engaging on podcasts. {HERE! HERE!}

Research Question Brainstorm: What Do We Want to Know about Podcasts?

• What are the benefits of this informal learning for PD experiences among higher ed peers?
• What is the motivation or goals for:
  • Host: Why do you produce, create, or develop podcasts for higher ed? How do you determine success for learning or listening of your podcast? 
  • Listener: Why do you listen to podcasts? How do you use podcasts for your professional development or learning?
• Do you have other engagements with podcasts beyond the listening/audio medium? E.g. reading transcripts, show notes, or on the social web or in an online community?
• Has there been an action item you have taken after listening to a particular podcast? E.g. read a book, foun...