Sakai Podcasting

The Sakai Podcasting tool is terrific. Easy to use, it provides a powerful way of reaching digital natives where they live: on their cell phones and other kinds of personal digital assistants.

In my courses, I use the Sakai Podcast tool to announce new videos as I add them to the course. Key to my instructional strategy is just-in-time video that students can view to have my lectures onscreen just when you need them. I create these videos with Camtasia Studio and use the zoom feature to "help learners attend to important elements of the lesson" (Clark & Mayer, 2008, p. 38). By balancing content across visual and auditory channels, I observe Mayer's (2001) modality principle, and by organizing the videos into small clips, I follow the segmenting principle (Clark & Mayer, 2008, p. 183).

Reference

Mayer, R.E. Multimedia Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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