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 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, and it must avoid infringing upon intellectual property laws. (This means that students can't, for example, make an episode that contains only unoriginal music.) All podcasts must incorporate some form of external audio. The class will cover how to create podcasts using Audacity (although other tools may be used). Students also will design corresponding websites to host their podcast episodes. These websites will offer an embedded audio player for each episode and a functional rss feed to syndicate the podcast. The websites will be developed through the Blogger platform. Example Podcasts:
Many other examples may be found through internet searches or on indexes such as iTunes and Stitcher. Resources:
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