Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab 
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Educators often struggle to find timely, focused on-demand professional development that meets their unique learning needs. These needs might be content area information that helps them to build their knowledge with current information, or maybe it is hyperlocalized information that helps them to understand their position in a larger educational organization. Maybe it is helping educators join a larger community or they might need to learn how to share the amazing practices they engage in with their learners. On a similar note, professional development coordinators, coaches, and administrators may struggle to help educators meet these needs at crucial points throughout their careers.
Educational podcasts can help to fill these gaps in many educator's professional development and help them to connect with a larger community. Podcasts acts as a learning tool for millions worldwide and educators can use podcasts as a method for on-demand PD. Educators, as long as they are empowered by their coaches and administrators, can seek out choice-based learning opportunities that can be explored on the go, in chunks, and as part of other responsibilities.
Educators can also explore podcasts as creators, ready to share their classrooms with audiences around the world. By planning, recording, editing, and sharing a podcast with their community, educators can help to bring their visions for education to a larger audience and offer solutions to their communities, either locally or globally. Administrators and coaches can help support by sharing and connecting educators with the tools they need to create their podcasts.
In this session, educators will explore some tried and tested ways of sharing podcasts with their local communities to find the best fit for their professional development. These methods will include exploration of searching and finding episodes that meet the professional development needs of a variety of educators, curating and collecting podcast episodes into guides for educators to make a portable PD experience, and some best practices for sharing curated podcast lists with other educators.
We will also explore some best practices for creating an educator podcast with the listener in mind. Educators will learn some best practices for backward design in podcasts, how to write engaging questions, how to navigate interviews and conversations to meet learning goals, and how to share podcasts at a range of price points. The presenters will also share several examples of how professional development goals were met through podcasting with local educators in their communities (Southern California and Utah).
5 min - Introduction / Sharing Resources
10 min - Introduction to podcasting as a professional development tool
10 min - Curating and sharing podcasts for personalized professional learning (making playlists, strands, and sharing them for educators)
5 min - Personalized models for using podcasts as professional development at school
15 min - Creating a hyperlocalized PD podcast for educators (considerations for planning, recording, editing, and sharing podcasts)
10 min - Examples of hyperlocalized PD podcasts in action from local communities
5 min - Q&A / Sharing Resources
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Goldman, Thomas. The Impact of Podcasts in Education Thomas Goldman. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023.
Kiernan, Martin A., et al. “The Power of Podcasts: Exploring the Endless Possibilities of Audio Education and Information in Medicine, Healthcare Epidemiology, and Antimicrobial Stewardship.” PubMed Central (PMC), Cambridge University Press, 31 Dec. 2022, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265733/.
Lynch, Matthew. “Teachers Are Using Podcasts for Professional Development - .” The Tech Edvocate, 27 Sept. 2023, www.thetechedvocate.org/teachers-are-using-podcasts-for-professional-development/.
Moore, Thomas. “Pedagogy, Podcasts, and Politics: What Role Does Podcasting Have in Planning Education? - Thomas Moore, 2022.” Sage Journals, SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 4 July 2022, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0739456X221106327.
Shamburg, Christopher, et al. “Podcast Listening and Informal Learning.” The Qualitative Report, July 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2023.5862.
“Storytelling Saves the World.” Storytelling Saves the World, www.storytellingsavestheworld.com/. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023.
“The Edge.” Buzzsprout, istetheedge.buzzsprout.com/1983109. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023.
UCET Podcast with Kiera Beddes on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ucet-podcast-with-kiera-beddes/id1539752646. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023.
“UEN Homeroom.” UEN Homeroom, uen-homeroom.simplecast.com/. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023.
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