This semester all EDM310 students of Dr. John Strange of the University of Alabama compiled a podcast. We teamed up in groups of three to four of our peers and given a topic. We had no practice run, so as soon as the recording started there was no room for error. Which in this case is implausible. You learn from experience and mistakes. Furthermore none of the students had attempted a podcast before.
In light of it all, things turned out a little better than I had anticipated. The structure was a little unsound as was the dialogue, but not bad. Many of the students sounded like robots, due to reading from a script. Some of the information was hard to follow and out of context. Although as I said things like this take practice and more preparation.
I believe that a few practice sessions prior to the actual podcast will aid tremendously. Having the students even recorded in conversation and played back to them to hint at improvements will influence the final outcome substantially. Make them feel more at ease, and make sure they know the information very well so that instead of reading from a script things could be more improv spur of the moment conversation. With all things said I think all the podcasts were pretty darn good for the first time!
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