Grant, this is really cool work. Yesterday as I was at work and had Radio DS106 looping in the background I thought about how this audio experiment was becoming a powerful tool for your learning community to develop their social presences – a way for the learners to project something of their own into the courses, ala Anderson, Garrison and Archer’s Community of Inquiry model.

And then I began to think about how this radio model could be a great way for an educator to become a curator of content. I mean, how much great audio subject matter could an instructor gather about their field and have loop 24/7 for students to listen to in the bg while they work – set the learning mood and atmosphere. Say, for example, you’ve got a course on something, like history of the labour movement. Why not have a curated instructor list of songs about unions or labour that students could tap into when working on projects at home – something playing in the background as a way to get them in the mood and perhaps reinforce themes.

And then I thought one step further and have students curate the collection – find, identify and submit their own pieces to the collection, as part of their learning process.

or, or maybe have them find a spoken word piece from the course content that resonated with them and set it to music, mash it up, submit it and have the students create original work..in English take a poem and recontectualize it and use music to reinforce the them – or completely reinterpret it. ee cummings auto-tuned.

My point with my comment rambling is that you’ve got my head swimming with possibilities in a most wonderful way. The old radio geek in me thinks this kicks serious butt…cool on so many levels.