Columbus State University Podcasting Projects
Journeys of Teaching Season 4.5
Teaching candidates from Dr. Gierhart's Elementary Education science teaching methods course published podcasting assignments on the Journeys of Teaching Podcast feed. The candidates share stories of their K-12 science education experiences and how they draw upon them to design and implement intentional, engaging science instruction with their current and future students.
Journeys of Teaching Season 3.5
Students from Dr. Gierhart's Elementary Education science teaching methods and middle grades/secondary technology courses published podcasting assignments on the Journeys of Teaching Podcast feed. Many are focused on digitally-mediated and networked engagement in authentic, interest-based participatory cultures.
A Search for Common Ground
In the fall 2021 semester, Dr. Kristie Smith, working with Professor Erica Warren taught EDCI 6158, a graduate level trends and issues offering. Seeking to facilitate students’ authentic, principled, and critical considerations of trending topics for the middle grades and secondary educational contexts, Smith and Warren facilitated regular conversational exchanges to include students’ production of podcast episodes that shared their critical reflections and lived experiences around issues explored in the course. The episodes shared on this site were created by students in 6158. Ja’Nyah Jefferson’s episode addresses the topic of Civics Education. The episode that is co-created by Andrea Whittlesey-Glaze and Jalin Murphy is about Testing and Accountability.
Journeys of Teaching
In Journeys of Teaching, Dr. Aaron R. Gierhart explores the narratives of different educators and how their experiences in and across their lives and careers inform their pedagogy and teaching approaches.
Refugee: A Podcast
Refugee: A Podcast was the result of two courses at CSU. Students in "Refugee in World History" and "Sociology of Refugees" explored how refugee studies and recorded their reflections, which were then compiled for the podcast.
The Stocking Strangler: A Columbus Nightmare
True crime meets the college classroom in this exploration of one of the most notorious serial killers in Georgia's history.
Journeys of Teaching Season 2.5
Students from Dr. Gierhart's Elementary Education science teaching methods and middle grades/secondary technology courses as well as Dr. VanValkenburgh's middle grades science teaching methods course published podcasting assignments on the Journeys of Teaching Podcast feed.