There is a very short video describing the "making of" the podcast and the transcript.
Podcast Transcript
It turns out I'm not getting any participants. The first thing that occurred is that I had to go through the research accountability department at our district and found out that it would take about three weeks for that to get approved. Well that would really kind of make it very difficult for me to stay on task and continue our assignment necessary for the class. So I figure well there's a lot of different avanues out there so I will touch on other staff that work with students that are not in the Fairbanks North Star Burough School District. That being said, I'm not bitter and I'm not upset about that because I do believe that research and accountability should weigh heavily on what we do. They need to make sure that the research isn't…well let me just say in a positive manner that it is it's effective and it's not going to inhibit anything that is going on in the classroom and its ethical. So that's fair, but what's happening is I'm not really getting any participants really anywhere that I'm looking I put the word out through some through emails and groups and I heard interest offhand but when it comes down to it, I think there's a certain shyness. They might feel a bit of pensiveness. They simply really don't want to reach out on this and I could possibly understand. It could be they are finding information they need via the internet and YouTube which has millions of these tutorials.
So it might just be the whole concept of a quick screencast tutorial is great by design but not necessary because the wheels already have been invented. It's already been done so I'm not really afraid to use this as my research and maybe I can follow up and say “I'm hearing you”. Maybe the information that you need is already out there readily available and answers your question. Why email me and feel you're putting me out when it's already been done and I can truly understand that. I might feel the same way if I was on the other side. So this is kind of what I'm looking at. This is where I'm at. I have not made a screen cast. I have (made some) for a couple teachers but not within the research because there was no survey. There is no data collected. I just did it because they asked me to. It was good practice so it always good practice and mean yes of course is humbling but I understand it as well and makes perfect sense. Okay, so where do I go from here? Well, I’m going to continue trying. I figure I still have a little bit of time and might have to cut redesign some of my timeframe on getting this done but I believe that's okay and I'll keep an open mind and to know that this is a part of the research this is not just, “oh man, I messed up I must have written this wrong” and I could definitely look at this is a means of writing this better the next time. So when I redo the research program, how can I be more explicit in designing something like this to where I get results of people feel more comfortable. Being more open and I think having better directions I think it was a little confusing maybe when I was explaining how it would start and I think that's that happened because I didn't fully understand as well I had a concept but the delivery was always pretty hazy my head. That's probably because this is all new. I didn't have a classroom that I was used to so for seven years I had a classroom so this my first year I don't have a classroom teaching teachers or modeling for them and seeing how that goes. it is been wonderful and I really truly enjoy it but there's much that I don't fully understand about that the nuances of being an instructional technology teacher. It's fascinating and it's humbling and it's frustrating and it's definitely a learning experience. I’m going to continue trying. I got the website on my teaching website make my district website that built and I need to put better links I need to get the word out and let people know this is a research project. I would love participants I want to know how effective this is. Maybe if I if I have it better presented I suppose I would get more participants but even if I don't these have to be results. There has to be something there that I can really take from all of us and go… “Screencast is a great idea, now how can I get the ones that are already built and already well-developed out to the teacher quickly and show them how to use screencasts so they're effective and I think that could be a wonderful outcome to all of this so that's what I'm hoping to take away from it and I hope that I could present it in a way that make sense in the whole final project and of course at this time I'm going to straight up ask if there's anyone listening to this and is willing to take the survey, go to my website at: www.thelearningcube.weebly.com and also if you have any suggestions on how I can kind of present this and incorporate this into my final project, I would love that so really thanks for listening to this podcast.
The rest is unedited to so you can see how effective (or how ineffective) using the microphone function on the iPad’s keyboard can be.
I put it in iTunes I do have to converted into MP3 for really read it which is not too terrible parts so when I fully enjoyed this because somehow I I think differently right talk this is not scripted this is just me talking it when I right I get the difference does it seemsa different voice so I don't do this all the time but sometimes for this and I seem to get little bit more reflective that's why I'm not talking rather than typing so so he's coming at eight minutes nine minutes you're pretty close I don't want to lose you or talk too much so tastelessly and I'll see you next week