Summary:

The Podcast Project asks students to develop a podcast episode, which is audio content designed for asynchronous online dissemination. Podcast episodes should be approximately 5 minutes long and in .mp3 format. Their subject should be an aspect of the local environment. (It may be helpful to pursue the same general topic covered in the Local Mapping Project.) Podcast episodes may include talk, multiple hosts, music, interviews, sound effects, jingles, etc., but the majority of the episode's content should be original. (This means that students can't, for example, make an episode that contains only unoriginal music.) The class will cover how to use Audacity to create podcast episodes (although other hardware and software may be used).

Student Examples:

• Portcast

Resources:

• Our jingle (remember that your podcast must start with this)
• Audacity download
• Audacity Portable download
• Audacity workshop
• Podcast Alley
• Podcast Directory
• ccMixter

Deliverables:

1. Example Analysis (10% of project grade)
2. Podcast Jingle (engagement assignment, bonus points)
3. Podcast (60% of project grade)
4. Materials Analysis (15% of project grade)
5. Postmortem (15% of project grade)