DLB: 3/29/17

Today, March 29th, was our final day of our podcasts. River’s instructed us that we could and should go over our normal recording time, that way we could summarize and expand upon larger themes in our podcasts. We then spent the next 15 to 20 minutes preparing our pre-production pages for our podcast, as well as deciding which song to use as our intro. We decided to go with the Mighty Jungle, as it was funny even though it didn’t really relate to our podcast. This week, our final podcast was about O Brother Where Art Thou, and our book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. As a group, this was our favorite movie so far, as it was fun and different. The whole movie dealt with myths from the south.There were a lot of musical themes in it, like when they performed A Man of Constant Sorrow, or when the Sirens lured the boys and drugged them.  We tried to incorporate our book more this time, and just have fun with our podcast, as it was our final one. We also tried to connect through poems, considering our book is a book of poems, and the movie is based off of Homer’s poem, The Odyssey. We’ve felt like our podcasts were fun but awkward. All that matters is that we had fun and accomplished our goals. If we did this again, I’d say we really need to work on being natural. Knowing the phone is there and knowing that it is graded made it a more stressful situation, rather than a natural conversation.
This podcast unit was both a helpful and useful one. Podcasting is on the rise for many as a serious profession. This could open up students to the idea of pursuing podcasting as a career, or just get them to improve on their speaking skills.