The podcast assignment is definitely my favourite so far and has already been very useful to my younger sister surprisingly, but more about that later. From the assignment brief I chose to cover a topic that interests me; German. It was only after I had helped my sister to prepare for her Leaving Certificate German Oral exam that I decided to do my podcast on German for the Leaving Certificate oral examination. I laid out the structure of my podcast in accordance with the structure I had used when studying for my own Leaving Certificate as I thought this would be most useful for a student listening to the podcast. Typing up my script took much longer than I had expected as I tried to incorporate interesting vocabulary and topics which would hopefully gain students more marks. I timed myself before I recorded the podcast and it was a tad long so more editing was needed before the final recording. I decided to record the test podcast on my laptop as I don’t own my own audio recorder.
I also found a few different free downloadable audio editing programmes which were interesting to play around. It’s becoming easier to recognise user friendly software without having to use the programmes much. Unfortunately my favourite audio editing programme that I found was only a 14day trial. Sound Pad Recorder and Wave Pad Sound editor are available at:
http://www.nch.com.au/recordpad/index.html For some reason I thought Audacity would be difficult to use but when it came around to actually recording my final podcast there was no major hiccoughs with Audacity.
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