Josephine’s Online Technology Journal

Evaluate your finished podcast against your own design specifications

After looking back at my design specification from my ‘Design’ journal, I don’t think I fully followed all of them. My design specifications were to include a music in my background, speak slowly and clearly, make it 3-7 minutes, add some sound effects, and try making it sound entertaining and interesting. The only thing that I followed was to make my podcast length 4 minutes long. I could not add any songs or sound effects- because I could not find any appropriate songs to add. On the day I was recording after school; the lab was really noisy. People kept on talking and signing. Due to the time restrictions- I was in a rush- and ended up reading my script quickly.

Evaluate your finished podcast against my design specifications (recorded and published)

The design specification that Ms. Wilson wrote is similar to mine. Her’s reads: i will include music in my background, i will speak slowly and clearly, my podcast will be 20 minutes long, and i will include an interview with… As mentioned earlier, my podcast does not follow any of them. Her time restriction is up to 20 minutes- while mine is from 3-7 minutes long. I guess i did speak clearly but very quickly at most of the times when reading.

Evaluate your work at each stage of the project (A, B, C, D)

I must say that working on ‘investigation’, criterion A of this project was the most annoying part. I spent after school listening to various podcasts and researching ways to publish podcasts. It wasn’t until I noticed that all the things that I wrote in my podcast changed. Even my final investigation was deleted! So many things were getting erased or either altered. (Learner blog did get on my nerves). Getting back to the point, Mrs. Wilson did read what I wrote and therefore I did not have that much of a big problem. I did answer everything that the assignment asked for- and kept all the bibliographies of each site.

Moving on to criterion B; I believe I answered everything that the assignment asked me to do. I tried to make it as detailed as possible. Researching different ways of publishing podcast was a little bit annoying yet somehow hard for me. I don’t have a quick access to the Internet at home. So I decided to save time by working on researching during class and answer all the questions at home. My design got deleted along with my investigation in the beginning. Luckily, I had everything saved onto my network and did not encounter that much of a big catastrophe as last time.

I then made a time-line/ plan of what I did and what I will be doing. I was required to write down all the dates, times, steps, materials and resources. Thinking of what I did for each class was somewhat easy. Planning what to do for each class made me think hard. I tried to follow all of my plans. Indeed, I did follow all of them- except for one time, on February 20^th. I was supposed to record for 20 minutes during class but I couldn’t. Each person was given the time to record for each class- and i decided to do mine during class on Friday. I couldn’t record on this day as well, because I did not have all my researches ready!

Although I didn’t follow all of my criterion C plan; i did actually Then on February 25^th to 26^th, I was able to finish recording my podcast. On the 25^th, I was able to record the first part of my script after school. However, there were other people in the room who kept on talking (making some background noises). I was able to finish my podcast the next morning. I published the podcast during class- right after I finished recording it. I followed all the instructions for criterion D. I had my friends to comment on my podcast.

Test the podcast according to your plans under INVESTIGATION above

The tests for a good podcast for me was: how long is it, how well the person talks (slowly, clearly and energetically), and what it is about. It’s a little difficult for me to test my podcast since it’s actually mine (HEHE). My podcast is short and simple. It doesn’t drag that long for the audience to hear it. Although there isn’t any sound effects or background music to make it more interesting- it helps the listener to concentrate better. I did talk quickly, however if they read along with the script- it will be easier. Because my podcast is an explanation about each blood type-thorough concentration would be good.

Record the results of your tests

Enkhzaya said…

Well,,,your podcast was very interesting..but you were speaking SUPER fast……

12:53 AM  

Anonymous said…

very interesting Jo! i didn’t know that..wow! Good job yo! if possible can you make another podcast like this? bet it would be interesting and cool.

12:54 AM  

Anonymous said…

it’s SUPER dUPER gooiooood
i can’t believe you made it really nicely!
good job, jo!
from saihknaa

Once again, in order to hear my podcast, go to: www.bloodtypesjo.mypodcastcom

In order to listen to my podcast, you can just click on:

http://bloodtypesjo.mypodcast.com

 Possible topics for my podcast:

• comedy

• life in Mongolia

• life in Korea

• information about our school ISU

• about myself

• jokes from joke books

• book reading

• comments about songs and video clips

• instructions of cooking

• travel guide to Mongolia

• interview with someone special

• horoscopes

• blood types

My intended audience for this podcast is simple ANYONE who is willing to listen to my audio from the beginning ’till the end- without skipping anything in the middle. Mrs. Wilson, our IT teacher will definitely be one of my audiences- as well as our grade 10s. Any netizens online serfing for any one of these podcast subject is my audience as well!

Steps of recording and publishing my podcast

First step
1. Record my podcast in “Audacity” program
-Get a microphone ready
-Open up “Audacity” program
-Start recording (Click on the red circle button)
-once you’re done recording, click on stop (brownish green square button)
-name it by clicking on the “Audio Track” on the left side. (click on “Name” under it)
2. save it under a MP3 file
-go to files => Export as MP3
-save it under a file in which you’ll remember where you’ve saved it!
3. Make a podcast site with MyPodcast

Second Step
www.garagepodcast.com
This site enables you to upload your own podcast. After you record your audio in podcast in audacity, you can export it as a mp3. Then from the site, you can obviously import it as the same file- and then post it.

Third Step
iTunes
Basically, the first step of publishing a podcast is to record your audio in some kind of program. The best one I would like to recommend is to record it in ‘audacity’ program. Once your done, go to iTunes. You need a membership if you want to upload a podcast. However, it requires payment. Then you can link from iTunes directly to podcast as an import file. Next, go to music store for customer service page. Follow the instructions for adding a podcast to the catalogue.
<http://101.findexcellent.com/26/record-edit-publish-and-let-your-podcast>

Fourth Step
Ourmedia.org
Upload your podcast if you don’t have a website or an FTP server. This site allows you upload a podcast for free. You can upload a file in any size. This is an advantage- since you wouldn’t have to worry about the limit of the file size. However, be ware that the speed publishing would take quite a while!

Fifth Step
Recording the podcast without using the Internet. This can be done so by calling a certain radio station. You can read off what you want to say through the phone and they can record it- and publish it for you. I got this information from Mrs. Wilson. There are 3 different sites that you can publish your podcast through phones: gabcast.com and voice2pod.com. These two sites enables you to record any sort of audio. The next site instructables.com requires you to research how to record an audio. The steps are the following.

1. Gather supplies: 2 phones (in order to capture 2 of the interviews), a phone audio recording device (for example, the Quick Tap from JK audio), a laptop, audio recording software, audioBlogging/Podcasting hosting device.

2. Connect inbound Audio: with 2 phone devices, use a device called “Quick Tap” from JK Audio to tie these phone lines into one audio cable that plugs into the laptop.

3. Launc hAudio software:

Now you need to launch whatever software you will be using to record the audio on your computer. use Sonic Foundry but there are a number of packages available for little cost. This application will not only capture the audio but will allow you adjust the recording volume and other variables that will allow you to produce better quality audio.

If possible, normalize (usually a common feature in this kind of software) the audio, this will smooth out the difference between loud and quite parts of the recording. Then you save audio as wav file (this preserves the original in a high quality format). Finally, you convert wav file to MP3 file (try to include ID3 meta data). This is done because MP3 files are so much smaller than wav files and are easier to dowload.

5. The Learning Feeds (www.learningfeedsd.com) is the one that has set up to handle all of the podcasting. When you publish something from the AudioBlog site- this iw where it lands. Use the “View Source” command in your browser and copy the relevant pieces out of it and past e them into the Learning Wiki.

6. After the audio shows on the blog, add it to the Learning Wiki (www.learningwiki.com)

One chosen method

I decided to follow my first step of publishing the podcast. It seems as if I’m more familiar with the steps. If I need to work on this at home, I can easily work on it without any problems. Although it does require an access to Internet in order to publish it- hopefully, I will manage it without getting into any trouble.

Design specifications

• I will include music in my background

• I will speak slowly and clearly

• My podcast will be 3 to 7 minutes long

• I will add some sound effects

• I will try to make it entertaining and interesting- instead of dragging/ or making it sound boring

Did you know that there are 6,652,417,853 people living on this earth (World POPClock Projection)? All of these people are either blood type A, B, O or AB. They all have different characters, personalities, and reactions when they encounter all sorts of situations. Let me tell you 11 different facts about each blood type. Try to figure which one most likely suits you! Don’t take it too seriously, though. It’s stereotype if you do. Bear in mind that it’s not always true! Let’s first have a look at blood type A.

1.       If you are a blood type A, then you are extremely neat. You’d still be cleaning your room, even when you have a math quiz coming up the next morning. 2.       You are patient and caring. Although you are tired and sick yourself; you’d be thinking about your sick friend first.