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Enhancing Writing Classes with Podcasting: The Five Canons and Student Engagement

This paper investigates the integration of podcasting into Computers and Writing classrooms, exploring its potential to transform traditional writing instruction. It discusses podcasting as a modern form of literacy, aligning with the Five Canons of rhetoric—Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery. By embracing podcasting, educators can foster creativity, enhance student engagement, and provide diverse avenues for expression. The work emphasizes the need for contextual understanding and thoughtful audience engagement, ultimately leading to improved writing skills and deeper connections to course material.

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Enhancing Writing Classes with Podcasting: The Five Canons and Student Engagement

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  1. The Five Canons, Audience, & Earbuds: Adding Podcasting to the Computers & Writing Classroom Jennifer L. Bowie ▪ Assistant Professor ▪ Georgia State University Computers & Writing 2008 ▪ May 25, 2008 ▪ UGA @ Athens, GA

  2. Overview • Podcasting 101? • Considering podcasting in the C&W classroom • Rethinking the old in new ways • Integrating podcasting into C&W classrooms • Conclusions

  3. Podcasting 101 • Podcast: iPod + broadcast • Digital media files distributed over the internet • RSS feeds: subscriptions and delivery • Often played on portable media players • Not just for iPods • Time-shifted & location-shifted • Started as grassroots/independent now with many companies & organizations • Increasing popularity

  4. Podcasting 101: Popularity • In 2007 13% of US population has listened to a podcast

  5. Considering podcasting in the C&W classroom • Another form of “writing” and media • Part of technological literacy • Another form our students may need to master • Old/new form of writing and rhetoric • Traditional form (think Greeks) • Current “popular” from (presentations, speeches, …) • Digital with “universal” access • “Better” knowledge distribution model • Lessons learned may help other forms

  6. Rethinking the old in new ways: The 5 canons • Invention: "discovering the best available means of persuasion” (Aristotle) • What to say? • What topoi?Take testimony for example • Arrangement: the order of discourse • Is there a genre/subgenre? • If so, what is the genre? • Music before? After? • Which point first? • Intro? Outro? • Style: the artful expression of ideas appropriate to one’s purpose How will it be said? • Ethos & pathos become key • Things to consider: Dictation, accents, jargon, word choices, expression, speed

  7. Rethinking the old in new ways: The 5 canons • Memory: “treasury of things invented” (Ad Herennium), Recall of topoi often drawing on kairos and grounded in audience and circumstances • Scripted podcasts: may delve into memory • Unscripted podcasts: just like the good ‘ol ancient days • Delivery: public publication/presentation of discourse. How it is said: presentation of argument with effective gestures, tone, words, movement, and images • Oral roots in new ways: • Editing • Sound levels • Voice modulation • Music • Visuals & album art • Performance • More “traditional” print/web based concerns • Transcripts/ text forms of the content • Websites and associated “places” for the podcasts

  8. Rethinking the old in new ways:Audience, purpose, context, tone • Audience: • Their voice makes it more personal and increases their investment • Words, accents, music, length, …, and overall message more deeply considered • Better audience “visualization” • Purpose: • Often becomes more than “just another paper I have to write” • Can portray in “more” ways: music, tone, word choice, speed,… • Easily leads them into the next step • Context: • Suddenly user/listener/reader/ context matters • Will they be at their computer? Driving? Running? Cooking? Folding laundry? • Considers what matters and works for the user’s context • Tone: Tone now means something

  9. Integrating podcasting into C&W classrooms: • Option from list of various media • Class weekly review • Regular individual podcast • Student selected topics (related or not) • News • Class review/reflection • Provided topics • Research papers • New approaches to old genres • Media & message comparisons • Professor response • Peer review

  10. Conclusions • Fits into the goals of a C&W classroom • Provides new ways for students to consider, rethink, understand, and apply old concepts • Easy to incorporate • Leads to improved writing and investment

  11. Thank you! • Jennifer L. Bowie jbowie@gsu.edu • Professional website: http://www.rhetcomp.gsu.edu/~jbowie/ • Screen Space Podcast & Blog: http://www.screenspace.org/ • Presentation slides & handouts: http://www.rhetcomp.gsu.edu/~jbowie/presentation/ • Image: Digital Media Galaxy http://www.digitalmediagalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/podcast.jpg

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