In my podcast, I have sectioned and divided it into four parts. It begins and ends with delicately upbeat music that I made myself on Garage Band. The podcast then goes onto my introduction where I outline what I am going to talk about in my podcast but I also give an overview of the topic that I am going to cover . Moreover, I then address the limitations and disadvantages that arise with digital media becoming a big part of students life. Subsequently I speak about the benefits in the next part, I then conclude by summarising the topic and then trailing off to the music I began with.
I commenced researching my topic by going through the lecture resources and study notes surrounding the content of week 10. This allowed me to get a further understanding and building on what I already learnt in class. In class, we focused on sexting and cyberbullying and how common it is in educational institutes. Thus, in my podcast I wanted to touch on that and how it arises when digital media is involved therefore I incorporate it into my podcast as a limitation and disadvantage. For my benefits part of my podcasts, this is where I decided that I wanted to incorporate two scholarly sources as expert opinions to assist in my arguments. I have included expert opinions from Sara Eskridge who is an Adjunct Professor of History Randolph-Macon College Ashland, VA and Carla Dawson Digital Marketing Professor at the Catholic University of Cordoba. They assert how in order for digital media to benefit students and their learning, the educational institutes must adapt and imbed digital media in their teaching in order to assist the students and their learning styles and the endless possibilities that digital media can create for their classes and learning.
I thoroughly enjoyed; scripting, recording, editing and uploading my podcast as it allows me to be creative in my learning and therefore I wanted to create my own music.I created my own music rather than using some of Creative commons licensed source material within my podcast. As I have already stated, my podcast begins and ends with delicately upbeat music that I made myself on “GarageBand” (an application on an Apple Mac) which I hope gets the listeners excited about what they are about to listen to. The music is a combination of Cuban Timber Tonga and a techno beat then fading out with upbeat electric piano which together reflects a sound that I would reflect and relate to myself – upbeat but not the most flamboyant person in the room.
To be honest, I found that the hardest part for me was finding appropriate scholarly quotes and articles that suited my podcast. They either didn’t really flow with the topic as a whole or weren’t appropriate about what I was talking about in that section. However, the longer I searched the more appropriate and fitting my two quotes were it just took time and I learnt that I just had to put in extra effort which I was happy to put in. I also found the editing of the podcast difficult as I had never edited something like the podcast before so therefore although it was challenging, I did learn how to work it for the podcast and times to come.
Center for Social Impact Communication. 2019. How Social Media is Reshaping Today’s Education System – Center for Social Impact Communication. [ONLINE] Available at: csic.georgetown.edu/magazine/social…ucation-system/. [Accessed 27 May 2019].
Preville, P., 2018. How Digital Textbooks Make Learning More Impactful. 1st ed. America: Topthat.
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