Today in Mr. Rivers' class, we continued our talk about podcasts. First, we looked over our schedule for our reading and podcast due dates and then we started doing podcasts of our own. We set up our desk clumps as podcast recording stations using Vocaroo, an online voice recorder. Our objective in our preliminary podcast was to discuss the introduction to the film, Wall-E, and the book we're reading, Ready Player One, in order to form a unifying idea between the two mediums. My podcast group consisted of four members, Annie Monroe, Lauren Mitchell, Michael Loh and myself. Very nervously and somewhat regretfully we started the recorder and began our discussion. Michael Loh started us off with a brief introduction in which we stated our names and he explained what we would be discussing. The unifying idea we implemented into our discussion was setting so we started by posing a question on setting. The question was, "What suggests that the place where the narrator lives is not an ideal place?" to which Lauren responded with great detail by introducing evidence from the book. As our discussion ensued, we dove deeper into the important aspects of a effective podcast by posing new questions, and branching off of those questions to further develop the conversation. Each new question, for the most part, led to some conversation and piecing it all together added a bit more clarity by taking a broad view. Upon completing our relatively brief podcast, we reflected on what we could improve and we all agreed that we need to conduct the conversation more personably. We found that having the computers right in front of us made us sound more scripted in our discussion, however, if we set them off to the side and focused, rather, on the task at hand we might produce a better flow. Overall, today's podcast work helped fade out some of the questions we had about how to design, present, and conduct our podcasts.
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