week 5 – organizational podcasts: planning fundamentals

:: Guest Lecture: Jyotsna Natarajan, Amazon
- Planning the show to meet organization needs
- Technologies: WetPaint, GoogleDocs

Week 4: Telling The Story

A story is an issue that is expressed in human events.
- from Sound In The Story, Poynter

Agenda:

• Guest Speaker – Peg Achterman – Interviewing Tips (handout)
• Discussion, featured podcasts, posts
• Discussion, featured blogs
• Discussion, class podroll/blogroll
• Discussion, determine due date for draft group project proposal (1-9 May)
• Lab – share preliminary audio
• Group time

Podcast Adventures: Microphone Madness

In Vaun’s second podcast, he tests six different sound recorder/microphone combinations for podcasting.

Download MP3 or listen on Vaun’s site

Week 3 : Producing Your First “Podcast”

Agenda

- Examples
- Writing for the ear
- CODECs and compression
- Groups
- Practice editing with Audacity

Adventures In Podcasting

Vaun’s inaugural vodcast on GoogleVideo:

Week 2 : Oral Storytelling

Agenda:

• (Oral) Story Telling (ppt, uStream1, uStream2, Vaun’s Vodcast)
• Writing for the Ear
• Discuss/pitch possible projects
• Technologies: RSS, Bloglines/GoogleReader, WordPress, iTunes

Week 1 : Introduction

Tonight’s Agenda:

- Who are we and why are we in this class?
- What is podcasting? What are social media technologies? What’s the impact on businesses and organizations?
- Technologies: RSS, Bloglines, WordPress