Finals Week – Final Pitch

The final projects:

• MCDM
• Explore Seattle

Reminder: Catalyst peer review and final essay

Week 10 – Wrapping Up

Agenda

• We’ll give one another feedback on personal podcast and final draft personal podcast documentation. [I’m happy to review your personal podcast in advance – the earlier the better!]
• We’ll talk about show notes and more about promotion
• We’ll give one another feedback on final draft group project documentation (if it’s ready)
• Course gradesheet/points assessment (note: all assignments to date are “points/no points” — ie, was the assignment completed or not)

week 8 – distribution

- How do we get listeners?
- Technologies: iTunes, ZuneMarketplace

Week 7

podcasts and the social media ecosystem

• Housekeeping
• Group projects
• What Is The Social Media Ecosystem?
• Blog Usability

Week 6 – legalities

• Ethics, copyright and other laws
• Podcast profiles
• Technologies: Creative Commons
• Personal podcasts: first cut
• Group project: feedback

2009 Projects

Here are the project pages where you will post comments (feedback) on each team proposal. Feedback should be completed by class next week!

• MCDM
• Seattle

Each person will review the other team proposal!  The criteria follow:

• Title
• Overall concept viability
• Implementation feasibility
• Format matches audience
• Promotion plan

Week 5

organizational podcasts: planning fundamentals

:: Guest Lecture, Jyotsna Natarajan, Amazon

Digital Sound Effects

Need more sound effects for your podcast? Here’s a pretty extensive library. All sounds are royalty free but there is a fee to download them.

Digital Sound Effects

ScribeFire

This is a test of ScribeFire – a FF extension. Link to CCN story.

Week 4

telling the story

:: Guest Lecture: Peg Achterman, journalist (on interviewing)

- Genre, soundtrack, and developing the pitch
- Draft personal podcast ideas
- Technologies: ScribeFire, GarageBand, royalty-free music
- Group project – team time