News from TICER: David Free on Podcasting
It's already been a year since Jenny and I presented at the TICER Institute at the University of Tilburg in Holland. This year, I was glad to see coverage of David free's hands on workshop on podcasting and videocasting at Rob Coers' blog:
As a pioneer David had a bunch of great tips:
For instance, if you record an audiopodcast it is tempting to write down the complete story, but in the end you will find that listening to that can be very boring. Instead, write an outline and talk yourself from one point to the other in a natural way. The inevitable "uhhh's" and silences can be wiped out easily with the right software.
Listening to your own voice recording, can be pretty scary. But don't let that stop you from creating your podcast, because other people are used to your voice and most of your listeners don't even know you. If it's really bad, you might find a collegue who does the speaking for you :-)
Always keep in mind who your listeners or viewers are. Are you aiming at students, or is your message only relevant to staff?
Adding background music will spice up your recording. Use freely available music like available at CCMixter
Keep it short! Before you know it, you have made a recording of 5 minutes. But all is depending on how interesting your content is and how "entertaining" the speaker brings the message
It might be a good idea to promote an acitivity or service in an interviewing style. Although the participants were not so eager about this example, where Google Scholar is suddenly able to talk, it can be refreshing to hear more than one person speaking
Make pod/vodcasting sustainable in your organization. If the know-how and the enthousiasm is with one person, the risk of "collapsing" of the service is present, when this person changes jobs.
I had an incredible time at the TICER Summer School and it looks as though the folks this year did as well. Thanks for posting, Rob!