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Pondering about podcasting

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A couple of months back I chaired a session at Jisc’s Connect More event on podcasting. The podcasting session was delivered by Mark Childs from Durham with support with a recorded segment by Puiyin Wong from Birmingham.

The initial discussion before the presentation made me go back and look at when I started publishing my elearning stuff podcast. This was back in March 2008, enabled and inspired by the LSN’s MoLeNET programme. The first few episodes were mainly me speaking, but wasn’t long before I was recording panel discussions talking about stuff about e-learning.

However I had been listening to podcasts for a few years before that. I discovered podcasting when a webpage I had created about wireless zero configuration was discussed as part of an US radio tech podcast. The host of that show had a range of podcasts, and I started listening to them. Those podcasts did influence the format and structure of my podcasting recordings.

When I changed jobs and roles in 2013 I didn’t have the time and resources to record new episodes of the podcast. I did a few more episodes over the years following. However my usual panellists also changed jobs, roles, or even retired.

The last time I published a podcast was way back in September 2018, which was when I was at the ALT Conference in Manchester.

I did think I might be able to reboot the podcast when covid struck the UK, but even then I didn’t really have the time and importantly the space to do it.

Since then I have talked about rebooting, but haven’t yet made the leap to actually make some new recordings.

Is that going to change? Well probably not, but never say never.

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Reflecting on podcasting – Weeknote #324 – 16th May 2025

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This week I chaired two session at Jisc’s Connect More event, one on emerging technologies and the other on podcasting.

The podcasting session was delivered by Mark Childs from Durham with support with a recorded segment by Puiyin Wong from Birmingham.

The initial discussion before the presentation made me go back and look at when I started publishing my elearning stuff podcast. This was back in March 2008. I discovered podcasting when a webpage I had created about wireless zero configuration was discussed as part of an US radio tech podcast. The host of that show had a range of podcasts, and I started listening to them. Reminded me of the complexity of my original podcast workflow from 2011.

The other session I chaired at Connect More was about emerging technologies. I was reminded that emerging technologies are always emerging. The challenge that the sector faces isn’t necessarily about understanding which technologies are emerging, but how institutions can set the foundations to more quickly and easily take advantages of the affordances of emerging technologies.

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Did some quick and dirty research into the LLE for an internal colleague in Jisc. The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) will transform the post-18 student finance system to create a single funding system. An overview of LLE from UK Government.

This has implications for student mobility across the UK as students will be able to move and transfer between institutions. Also students will be able to take a single module or part of a course. In addition the government are expecting new and smaller providers to deliver a range of level 4 and 5 programmes.

Spent time working on the UUK Collaboration project, in the main researching, developing writing business case 3.

I was in Bristol for our Lead at Jisc Celebration, a leadership programme I completed this year.

Had an internal meeting to discuss future plans for the collaboration work.