The podcast that i created was focused on the topic ” “what benefits and limitations are involved in using digital media to facilitate student learning and engagement?” I chose this topic because i felt that i could personally relate to it. In terms of strategy, i thought that before anything, a script would need to be made. In doing so i sourced scholarly sources to use in the podcast and aside from that i decided to throw in my own personal experience. I did this just to make it easier for listeners to relate to, as apposed to taking the points from a scholarly source and really delving into that. After making the script, I then needed to find a platform to record on. This needed a little researching online and I came across a platform called Podbean. This allowed me to record, add music and special effects all from an app. I connected my Airpods to my phone to help with microphone quality.
In terms of my reading, i gained two valid points that i wasn’t necessarily thinking of before. This in turn, helped me to bring the discussion to a different level and talking about the points i garnered by doing research/reading. When using my sources in the actual podcast, I simply just mentioned the author or author’s names and then followed up by reading out the point that they had made in their writings. After this I tried to go through their points and what my take on it all was.
None of my own actual content was used during the making of this podcast. The intro and outro music that can be heard was used from the particular platform that i used. They were samples that the platform has stated are free and for public use. If you pay to subscribe to their platinum membership, you can have access to more samples and effects.
The biggest challenge I had was converting the podcast that had been recorded on my phone, to an acceptable format and uploading it on soundcloud on my laptop. Luckily i realized that when i saved the podcast on the Podbean app on my phone, it was actually saved on their online server. This meant that i could go onto their website and once i had logged in, i could access the very same podcast that i had recorded on my phone. Once this was done i just had to save the file and upload it to soudcloud. The other biggest challenge was to not sound nervous. In this instance it was the case of ‘fake it until you make it’. I have seen and heard many podcasts before and reprogramming my mind in a way so that I believed i had done this many times before (even though i hadn’t) was the biggest help in ensuring my tone, voice and confidence was where they all needed to be.
This link is the link to the Podcast
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