Podcasting 101

This week was definitely a little crazy thinking about all the things we looked at in class. I felt like I was being pumped full of information on new multimedia forms of expression. While a little overwhelmed, I really did enjoy all the new things I'm learning.

To respond to one of the readings, I thought Podcasting 101 was the most encouraging and informative on how to actually successfully write and record a podcast. I was confident in things like gliffy and screen-cast-o-matic but an actual podcast? It was a truly daunting task.

The author states that podcasts are a form of expression where you can cross traditional boundaries. Its free, its easily accessible and an interesting way to express your creativity. It sounded easy enough in the article.

Coming up with the topic was the easy part, all I had to do was pick something I liked and I wanted to talk about for five minutes. I thought the time limit was a joke and I thought my podcast was going to be at least 10 minutes long. I was so enthusiastic and pumped up for my topic that I felt supercharged and overconfident in this podcast. My topic, dance, is something that I've lived and learned since middle school. I was seriously so so so so naiive.

When it came down to the actual part of writing the script. I realized I'm so boring! My script at first sounded so proper and didn't have any personality. Its probably because I'm supposed to write academically and proper for all my classes that I was stuck in this boring rut. So I changed it up a bit, added a bit of my own flavor and it turned out better. But, the best script was the one I didn't write but the one that flowed naturally from my lips.

Podcasting is not so easy. Writing a script for a ten minute podcast? *SCOFF How could I have been so stupid. But, it did teach me a lot about how we are so gifted. People are able to really connect to others simply by voice and that takes some talent! Through a simple string of words and letters, humans are able to communicate their passions and there's real beauty in that.