Summary:

The Podcast Project asks students to develop a podcast episode, which is audio content designed for asynchronous online distribution. Podcast episodes should be approximately 5–10 minutes long and 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.) All podcasts must incorporate some audio other than a host speaking. Podcast episodes may include talk, multiple hosts, music, interviews, sound effects, jingles, etc., but the majority of the episode's content should be original, and it must avoid infringing upon intellectual property laws. Students will use Anchor to produce their podcast episodes.

Example Podcasts:

Many other examples may be found through internet searches or on indexes such as Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Student Podcasts:

Resources:

NPR's Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students
Audacity (and Audacity portable)
- Audacity user's manual
- Audacity tutorials
Audition
- Creating podcasts using Audition tutorial
- Create your own podcast Audition how-to
- Audition tutorials
ccMixter (background music)
Freesound (sound effects)

Deliverables:

Practice Podcast Analysis (5 pts.)
Podcast Episode Proposal (10 pts.)
Podcast Episode (25 pts.)
Materials Analysis (10 pts.)
Postmortem (5 pts.)