{"id":1173,"date":"2012-04-23T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:26:36","slug":"perfect-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/04\/23\/perfect-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Podcasting Special Interest Group last week (<a href=\"http:\/\/ppp.chester.ac.uk\/index.php?title=Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">MEL SIG<\/a>). One of the things which I took away from the event was that podcasts do not need to be perfect before being released to our learners.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve all been in a situation where we create a recording (audio only or a screencast) and worry about editing it to make it perfect. Obviously in certain situations we may need to do this, but there are also some (hidden) merits of releasing a &#8216;rough and ready&#8217; recording to students. <\/p>\n<p>From one of the presentations at the event, it was found that students preferred a non-polished recording as the surroundings\/background was familiar to them. Also, because the recording wasn&#8217;t scripted, it was more authentic and real.<\/p>\n<p>So, next time you think about creating a podcast or screencast and are put off by making it professional, don&#8217;t be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Podcasting Special Interest Group last week (MEL SIG). One of the things which I took away from the event was that podcasts do not need to be perfect before being released to our learners. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve all been in a situation where we create a recording (audio only or a screencast)<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/04\/23\/perfect-podcasts\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61,65,97,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-camtasia","category-podcasting","category-screen-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}