In today’s blog, my team and I did a podcast that talks about one of Howard Rheingold’s literacies: Participation. Participation is an important aspect because in order for us to excel in the media field we must be active participants. This podcast really brought out what participation is and I really enjoyed doing it with my group. It wasn’t really tough to do because everything felt natural in my opinion. We chatted for close to about seven minutes and it was by far the most entertaining experience I have had all year. This was a great way to enjoy talking with friends and learning more about them. Sounds weird saying that but it actually makes a whole lot of sense. We planned out what we wanted to talk about and we did not want to script anything so the experience would be completely authentic.
In making this podcast, I learned how to be authentic in the content that I get to create. I found it fun to manipulate the sound clips we used to make our podcast sound good and look good. We made sure everyone in the group was loose and could talk all day about the topic at hand. Had we planned out what we wanted to say, I think it would not have been authentic. We also had to do our job of getting sound clips from my group members respective sports.
I can apply my learning from this podcast to any future podcasts that I may want to do one day. I learned that being authentic is what truly matters when you are doing something like making a podcast. You want the listener to feel as if they are truly understanding what you are saying. I think knowing how to edit and make podcasts will help my market value go up and it will make me more valuable to future employers.
Football is dope 