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I May Be Nuts, But…
October 29, 2007 | |
..some 6th Grade boys approached me last month with the idea of starting a lunchtime blogging and podcasting club. After procrastinating as long as humanly possible, I finally agreed.
We had our first meeting today, and while I was thrilled to see that 12 kids showed up, I was somewhat disappointed that none of them were girls. In any event, the boys were eager to get started recording podcasts today and I had to pull back the reins a bit as we had some decisions to make. Were we blogging and podcasting or just podcasting? Was this a blog about life at school or about life in general? Was the target audience the whole world or just the MCDS community? Would each podcast episode have several segments, or would each group/topic do a separate podcast? How would we preserve the students’ anonymity?
In any event, I asked the kids how many of them had already blogged or podcasted outside of school. About 5 hands went up. The subject matter on their blogs ranged from movies to music to skiing. They divided themselves into 3 groups of 4 and got to work right away, and their emphases will be Music, Humor and Movies. This has the potential to be pretty cool.
Our home will be: http://www.mcdsblogs.org/blogclub and I’ll be sure to post updates on our progress.
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I ran a live webcasting club last year, along with helping the newspaper with the few podcasts they produced. We started all of those activities with a study in what quality media is. We listened to good podcasts and bad ones. We critiqued, studies how to produce good audio, how to edit, how to tell a convincing story, how to have multiple speakers, etc. A lot went into the before-production study.
They did get rolling pretty well though. Here are some episodes if you’re interested in hearing them. Probably won’t be too interesting since they’re about our community, but you can see where they got:
http://ourmedia.org/user/56193
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