Podcasting: The Benefits of Audio Design

DHSI Design Podcast: Why Podcast?

Despite the growing reliance on visual mediums of new media, podcasting presents an accessible method of sharing information. Digital audio content hosted online through podcasts are easy to upload, distribute and download, meaning that anyone with a computer, microphone and editing software can make podcasts.

Working in Garageband

User-friendly software audio software, in this case we used Garageband, allows people without a high level of knowledge in audio editing to construct professional-sounding podcasts without the use of a studio, professional equipment or a trained audio technician. Opening up the field of audio production, scholarly work can be discussed, shared and promoted by using podcasts effectively.

Podcast Master Track

Using Garageband, separate audio tracks can be recorded then edited on their own. Each individual track is contained within the master track, which can then be mixed down into a single file. Theme music, stingers, and effects break up the vocal narrative of the podcast, creating a format that is listener friendly as well.

Final Mixdown of Podcast Track

Because of the ease with which podcasts can be created thousands upon thousands exist, often making it difficult to produce a piece that is distinguishable from the vast audio minefield of available podcasts. By using social media resources, such as blogger, tumblr, twitter or facebook individual podcasts can be promoted and shared across online networks, allowing podcasts to gain listeners.

Podcast: The Benefits of Mobile Learning

Here's a small audio file advertising the benefits of podcasting and social networking for today's classrooms. For anybody involved in distance- and language learning, just to give two examples, digital tools are priceless.

As somebody involved in Slavic Studies, I can vouch for the fact that my own field has much to gain here. Russia has the world’s most engaged social-networking audience. Russians use networking sites at a rate far above the world average, spending close to 7 hours per month on them (rather than the international average of 3.7 hours), and viewing over 1,300 members’ pages over the same period, rather than the usual 525. This is where language matters to our students and their studies, long after the school day has ended.

Following the successful use of SMS, mobile email, mobile discussion boards, and handheld messengers in SLA tasks, we can see that convenience has a direct and positive influence on student participation and gain. To care more, consequently, means to achieve more – in patterns of intersubjective meaning.

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