Podcasting

What happens on this Podcasting workshop for schools & young people?

In this workshop Our facilitator will give an introduction to podcasting and give the students a chance to plan and pitch a mock show. They will learn about terminology used on the radio, what a podcast is, different jobs available in the radio industry, how to use and record with a portable microphone, make a voxpop recording as a group and finally come up with a mock show idea and present it back to the group.

The final presentation will be done in the style of dragons den where they pitch their idea to me and I choose whether to invest. This also builds employability skills of how to pitch ideas. If the workshop is delivered over a full day and your school/organisation are able to provide laptops' an extra audio editing session can be added on. In this session they will learn the basics of how to slice and reorder audio in the programme Reaper. They will also learn about bed music and how to download and add music to a piece of audio.

What areas does this Podcasting workshop cover on the national curriculum?

• Prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
• Develop students spoken language.
• Develop vocabulary actively.
• Competent in the art of speaking and listening, making formal presentations.
  Summarising and organising material, and supporting ideas and arguments with any necessary factual detail.
• Considering how their writing reflects the audiences and purposes for which it was intended.
• Giving short speeches and presentations, expressing their own ideas and keeping to the point.
• Working effectively in groups of different sizes and taking on required roles, including leading and managing discussions, involving others productively, reviewing and summarising, and contributing to meeting goals/deadlines.
• Listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform, and challenging courteously when necessary.
• Planning for different purposes and audiences, including selecting and organising information and ideas effectively and persuasively.
• Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
• Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world

If audio editing workshop is added on:

• Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies,
  analytically to solve problems are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of
  information and communication technology.
• Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications.
• Develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and
  information technology.
• Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills

What will young people get from this Podcasting workshop for schools & young people?

- A recording of them all answering a question as a voxpop, which will be sent to them once edited.
- An understanding of how to plan and record a podcast.
- An overview of jobs available in the Radio industry.
- Skill of being able to use a portable zoom mic.
- Learning how to plan a business pitch.
- More confidence in coming up with creative ideas.
- Experience in teamwork

What do young people say about this podcasting workshop for schools & young people?

A participant built up her confidence and said: “I would actually love to make my own podcast about personal development or confidence building”.

“It was a unique experience, full of opportunities to learn new skills and meet new people. I finished it feeling more confident in my abilities”

What sizes does this Podcasting workshop for schools & young people come in?

• Full workshop that is outlined would take 3 hours.
• Can make the workshop 2 hours without the mock show section.
• Can also do a half day by adding in more team building exercises.
• Can do a full day, in the afternoon they would learn how to edit audio, this would need laptops to be provided and free editing software downloaded

How many young people can this Podcasting workshop for schools & young people accommodate?

Workshop would be for 4-15 people. Could deliver it to 20 with a co-facilitator. The workshop can be done in the morning and afternoon with 2 different groups.

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