Creating my first podcast: A reflection on applying this experience with students

I created a podcast for the first time. I wrote about the first part of this in a blog for this workshop: Learning podcasting by doing.

The second part was the editing process.  I used GarageBand to edit because that is what I had on my computer. If I couldn’t figure something out, it was easy to find a YouTube tutorial with a decent answer.

In the future, I would be more conversational with the scripted part (the part I read). I think that teaching students to write conversationally will be a huge part of the lesson for my own students.

Scott Collins shared lots of resources on this: Five takeaways from teaching podcasting. I also found it challenging to edit clips together so that the volume didn’t jump around. It looked like Adobe Audition was a bit better for this kind of sound editing.

I also learned that transitions, in general, are hard. I think you have to do this and do it and do it some more to train the brain to think in a way that tells a story for the ear.

It was really fun capturing environmental sound clips to edit in and I always enjoy hearing real voices instead of just reading a quote.

There is something really special about the intimacy of podcasts.

—Kelly Johnson