I have submitted a few files to the File upload areas of Yahoo discussion group Podcasting ELT.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasting_elt/
[I hope it's OK for participants to do that, I couldn't see where else to put them.]
1. In the Files area, Week 2, I put a copy of the document I gave to my class, when I introduced the idea of doing a podcast, a rough draft for setting up a student podcast project:
BardwellRoadPodcastProject.pdf
We also listened to my introductory podcast (which really was little more than a trial of my ability to publish a podcast):
http://bardwellroad.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-01-11T13_49_18-08_00
2. In the Files area, Week 3, I put a copy of the document I gave my students today, a small class of 7 students, about possible aims and suggestions for student podcasts.
BardwellRoadPodcastEpisode2.pdf
I also got each of them to agree to be the show’s producer for one episode, and they chose a date, one show a week for the next 6 weeks or so.
[I'm so anxious to get the thing up and running, and for it to be well received and useful and used...]
3. Also in the Files area, but back to week 2, something on preparation for recording a podcast, specifically, the use of notes or an outline to speak from, like teleprompts that TV newsreaders and so on use.
I think I learned from the MacCast podcast (over 100 episodes so far) that Adam Christianson, the podcaster, prepares an onscreen outliner software program during his “prep” for each episode, and I remembered I had a free copy of “OmniOutliner” (for Mac OS X, version 2) on my laptop. It works pretty well.
I have uploaded 2 html files which show the online outline “teleprompt” I used while recording the first and second episodes of the Bardwell Road Centre podcast:
BardwellRoadPodcast0001outline.html
BardwellRoadPodcast0002outline.html
Hope these files/ideas/thoughts can be of use to others.
3 responses so far ↓
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Graham Stanley
// Jan 19, 2006 at 12:40 am
This is great Geoff – I haven’t had the chance to check the actual files out, but appreciate you doing this – it’s just the kind of involvement we were hoping for.
Cheers
Graham
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SergeiG
// Jan 19, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Thanks Geoff for the files you posted. That’s what I ‘ve been looking for!
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Graham Stanley
// Jan 19, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I’ve now had a chance to look at your files, Geoff. Great work, and a great resource for us – the outliner is a very good idea, and one I’ve tried when recording podcasts.
I asked students recording audio reports for my podcast Theme Tourism to actually write scripts before recording, but then the idea was very different from the kind of podcasts you’ve been doing.
I have found that I often need to write scripts of what I’m going to say. I do this becasue I feel happier about it, and waste less time than if I try to speak ad-hoc. I suppose it’s because I really like writing, and have grown so used to formulating my thoughts through blogging and writing comments on other people’s blogs. My guess is that this is just me, and I should get used to podcasting from notes. It’s all just practice I suppose, and will be the same for our students.