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Academic Podcasting

The Impact of Academic Podcasting: Emerging Technologies in the Foreign Language Classroom:

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion University began podcasting in the Fall semester of 2006 as part of a project supported by a University Faculty Innovator Grant.  This initial grant allowed faculty to begin to adapt podcasting technology for instructional purposes.  This pilot project laid the foundation for a larger, follow-up project, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)- Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI).  The NEH grant allowed more faculty members in the Foreign Language Department to develop podcasts and to use them for a variety of instructional purposes in different language courses, including:

  • reinforce class content,
  • improve pronunciation,
  • build vocabulary, and
  • improve oral and aural skills.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - Digital Humanities Initiative  http://www.neh.gov/

Academic podcasting technology is now integrated into the beginning to advanced language, literature and culture courses in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and English (World Literature). 

FL&L Podcasting Courses

Fall 2008:

  1. FREN 102 - Beginning French II
  2. FREN 366 - Business French (Language & Culture) 
  3. FREN 437 - 19th Century French Literature
  4. SPAN 495 - Latin American Digital Poetics

Spring 2008:

  1. FLET 100 - Understanding World Literature
  2. FREN 496/596 - Engagement Lit. & Film
  3. FREN 102 - Beginning French II
  4. GER 450/550 - German Satires & Parodies
  5. SPAN 320 - Spanish Civilization
  6. SPAN 449/549 - Contemporary Spanish-American Drama

Fall 2007:

  1. FLET 100 - Understanding World Literature
  2. FREN 333 - French Literary Forms, Poetry
  3. FREN 407/507 - Advanced Grammar & Syntax
  4. GER 380 - Lit. Sturm und Drang Jugendstil
  5. JAPN 311 - Advanced Japanese Language & Culture
  6. SPAN 311 - Speaking & Listening
  7. SPAN 495/595 - Sex & Religion
  8. SPAN 496/596 - Digital Latin American Poetics

Spring 2007:

  1. ITAL 102 - Beginning French II
  2. FREN 495/595 - French Phonetics
Fall 2006:
  1. ITAL 101 - Beginning Italian I
  2. JAPN 311 - Advanced Japanese Language & Culture
  3. SPAN 311- Speaking & Listening
  4. FREN 495/595 - Literature of Quebec & French Canada

iTunes

  • How to Download iTunes & Working in iTunes
  • How to access ODU courses on iTunes