By: Diane Cline

Diane Cline — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:50:17 +0000

Podcasts session, afternoon, with Christine.
PODCASTS : A growth field! Skills students can learn! Public History for museums, libraries; branded podcasts.
New Books and History Podcast ; Back Story Radio; Radio Public; Stitcher
DH and Public History
Group participants are interested in learning about:
How to set it up – what equipment? Decide if everyone is going to be in one room? Do you always have the same people? Do you have a lot of different people as guests (who won’t buy equipment)?
Buy your own equipment or find a studio you can use. Universities sometimes have a set up – sometimes the Comm Dept has a radio station, you could rent out time. Check out mics from library. Best set up all in room is studio , or get a digital recorder with mic, or a mixer if more than one person and mics for each person. Or your closet! Transom.org good research. Zencastr connect like Skype with your guest. Use USB mic – Blue Yeti
Doing them – who is it for? Why are you doing it – that leads to format. Airmedia.org #AIRsters AIRdaily
Need to measure who is listening somehow. Lots of commuters, doing laundry, exercising. Where they don’t want a visual thing.
Why not video? Need to think this through. YouTube – you can put up onw still image and have it be all sound. Alternatively, use SoundCloud set to private, and it’s free — (talk to Holly Dugan!)
Teaching with them – where do they get the equipment, how do they turn it in?
For class where quality is less important, it can be simple: Record it together around one phone, can upload through BlackBoard! (for an audience of one: the professor)
AUDACITY (older) has its pros and cons
All podcasts need higher quality audio to be competitive today.

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