Podcast

Let me start off by saying my podcast was terrible, absolutely down right awful. I apologize that you had to listen to it. I don’t know if it was because I was in the lab on campus trying not to disturb others but it was awful. Ok Now I can talk about podcasting.

This was not the first time I recorded audio for something. I was a radio station DJ so I had to record promos, PSAs, and commercials. Believe it or not I was a rapper, even I still do not believe that, and played drums in a band, and has spent time in recording studios. Even with all that experience in recording this was the first time that I have recorded a podcast. Using garage band was easy. I enjoyed putting the podcast together even though it sounds so terrible in the end. I was able to edit with relative ease and from the sound of the final product should have spent some time enhancing my voice and the podcast.

Podcast is something that I will be able to use as a production major. I will use it if I worked for a radio station to record show content and place the entire show online or just promotional clips. I will be able to use it in television to record the newscast and post online. I will also be able to use the video podcast to show the entire television news program. Podcasting will be a tool that will be a part of my life and my career.

Podcast seems like an interesting education tool. Considering Apple makes their product for the cool effect. It is really creative that many teachers and schools have tapped into the effect that Apple was creating to reach their students. Many times traditional schools are not interested in change the way they educated children because they believe the old way of sitting at a desk and writing on a blackboard works. I do not knock the traditional way of educating children, there is absolutely a place for that, but with the evolution of technology I think it is irresponsible for educators to not want to adapt to the way children of today learn. What Duke did with passing out iPods to their freshmen class in 2004 was a great way to use the resource of a new technology. I certainly hope that is a practice they have continued and other school will begin to make it a requirement to use in educating the children of this world.

With my podcast sounding so bad, I chose a video of recording a podcast in garage band.

Podcasting in GarageBand from Matt Guest on Vimeo.