Podcast

The first step I took toward creating my podcast was coming up with a topic. Initially, I thought it would be easy since so much of business education consists of technology, but then I realized it's not so easy to explain something about a program without being able to exactly point it out. I ended up deciding to do a podcast on the new Microsoft Office programs. Primarily focusing on just exploring the new layout of Microsoft Word. I wrote out my entire script, then realized that I hadn't yet even thought about how to record it. Since the initial instructions mentioned Audacity, I decided to try it out. I found it to be very user freindly and didn't have any problems with the program. My problem was primarily with me. I really aimed toward recording the entire script in one single shot, but ended up doing at least 30 recordings. Finally, I thought I would give it a shot one last time and made it most of the way though. I ended up deleting all the previous recordings and just using the last one. I guess after rehearsing those 30 times in addition to prior run throughs I had gotten a lot better at it. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to have two people speaking in the podcast or not, but I don't have anyone else around to help me with that. It is evident though, that two people could easily participate in the podcast I created.

In order to save my podcast and prepare it for posting, I exported it as a WAV document and downloaded a WAV MP3 converter. This was very easy to do once I found a decent converter to download. I did publish my podcast to podbean.com.

If you listen to my podcast, you may have noticed that it ends by saying to move on to Podcast #2. I have not created a second podcast, but I would like to. I think this is an amazing way introduce this type of material. I want to record several podcasts to eventually be used in my future classroom. Of course, by the time I have my own classroom to teach, I will have to start all over because WORD 2010 or something like that will probably be out and be completely different. The one thing that could possibly be considered a downfall (but at the same time a good thing) about teaching technology, is that sometimes the teacher is learning with the students. It's so hard to stay ahead of things. I know that I will continually be learning new things and will be teaching new things each year. I just hope I am able to teach a few business courses as well to hopefully keep me grounded with some consistant material. I can't wait to make more podcasts for my classes. Maybe I can create one for my clinical classes that I observe. I'll have to see if that would be possible.

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