Podcasting

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 Hello, my dear readers!💖

Today we are going to talk about podcasting. 

The terms "ipod" and "broadcasting" combine to generate the word "podcast." You are free to discuss whatever subject you like on your podcast. It is an audio digital file. It can be used for entertainment as well as education.

This week we were assigned to make a podcast for our Instructional Technologies and Material Design course. Our teacher gave us three options. First one was creating a vox-pop, second one was improving the world and the third one was a sound-rich story. Vox-pop's are supposed to be two minutes or below. My friend Nisa Elmas and I decided to make a vox-pop since it was a pair work and it took our attention. She also has a blog which I think has a very attractive design and interesting blog writes. If you are interested you can click here  to visit her blog. 

For this podcast we interviewed ten people in our ELT department. Our question was: If you could stop aging at a certain age and live the rest of your life at that age, what age would you choose? We have found out that majority of the people want to stay in their teens or childhood period because they think being a child is fun. Few people said they want to stay in their adolescence period, above at the age of twenty. The minimum age that was chosen to stay was 6, and the maximum was 40. 

We actually didn't had a hard time finding our interviewers/friends. We asked them if they could paricipate in our podcast and thankfully none of them returned us. I really had fun during the whole creating process. It was nice to hear different and interesting answers to our question. The only part I had difficulty was combining the voice records and the music.

If I became a teacher one day, I would definitely want my students to experience podcasting, as well. I don't think podcasting has any disadvantages I can think of. But if we were to talk its advantages I think it may improve students both listening and creativity. It may also have a good influence in their speaking skills. 

You can listen our podcast by clicking here.

That was all for today. 

I hope you enjoy reading!

xoxo, Yağmur


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