Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Understanding Podcasts

Teaching with Smartboard by Sladkey and Miller
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In this podcast, it begins with a theme of the holidays. This podcast included holiday music and graphics. The episode I watched,episode 67, is the annual holiday edition. In order to make a podcast, you must think about audio recordings, visuals, and what information is being presented and how. It is also important to let people know where they can find more information about a subject too. Both men created an entertaining way how to educate people about Smartboards. They included written instructions, pictures, and auditory instructions.



KidCast:Learning and Teaching with Podcast
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"Active Listening to Improve Your Show" by Dan Schmit
Episode 57


The narrator opens with music and an introduction to his podcast. This podcast was only audio. Schmit also gives a website to visit as another resource for a competition he is involved with. He explained that a podcast is like a show and have different episodes. Some of these can done by students. There are several types of educational podcast. One type is an inquiry podcast that answers a question through investigation. Another is a point of view editorial podcast. This type of podcast is persuasive to the audience and can be about political issues.



EdTechTalk
Cammy Bean interviews Robert Squires

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What I noticed about this podcast right away is the fact that all of the participants were from different states. One lady was from Florida, while the other was from Montana. This really showed me the possibilities there are with podcast creation. This podcast involved a lot of discussion as far as how it was formatted. This podcast also did not involve visuals. The creators planned ahead, had questions reader for the interviewee, and knew what they were going to talk about beforehand. This tells me that a lot of planning goes into the creation of a podcast.



This Week in Photography

126: Race in Photography- Don't Blink!
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This podcast opened with the sounds of a camera going off. This immediately drew me into the topic. The topic at hand was whether or not face detection is racist. The facial recognitions may think that Asians are blinking and that dark skinned tones weren't picked up. Interestingly enough, the company, Sony, is an Asian company. The problem with this new technology that was being discussed is that it wasn't tested well enough before being released to the public. I also noticed that is was the first podcast that had a sponsor.

1 comment:

  1. Good job Spring. Hopefully now you have a better idea of what to do for your own podcast. You will create a script and PRACTICE before recording. Keep up the good work.

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