My Enhanced Podcast

Here follows my enhanced podcast assessment. Although it may not bring one to tears, likes James’, I generally liked my first attempt at podcasting. It was refreshing to combine photo and audio files into something other people could briefly view on the Internet.

Recording audio was fairly easy and fun. I was able to record, attach, and edit my narrative to my exact specifications. My attempt at humor was also successful (people laughing equals success). Initially I tried to include James’ actual voice, but the audio file he sent me was not loud enough, or I could not make it loud enough. The selection and inclusion of background music was good. I wanted to fade out the music to one of the songs, but instead of trying to figure out how to do that, I settled for the abrupt ending of the song. This problem will be remedied for the next project.

My visual choices were less rewarding. First, all the photos I collected from the Internet came out blurry. Second, I could not use the Ken Burns effect. I did try to set up my enhanced podcast on iMovie, but the file became gigantic, and I lost all my progress. Still, I am looking forward to working with iMovie again. In terms of transferring files and editing, I had no problems.

Overall, I displayed an understanding of the lessons we read in iLife ’06, and I can see how this technology can be very useful in the secondary English classroom.