Podcast Evaluations -- 2/26/19

Today in class we evaluated our own podcasts that we recorded on Friday and later we reviewed the podcast of another group of peers. To evaluate our own podcasts, we went onto Google Classroom and wrote a stream of consciousness while listening. The punctuation and sentence structure of this stream of consciousness were unimportant. What was important was that we evaluate how we met the goals from the pre-production worksheet and considered how we could improve for our next podcast this upcoming Friday.

I mainly focused on how I met my individual goals during the podcast. As an example, here is an excerpt of my stream of consciousness reflection:
"Good transition into talking about James Franco as a comedian, maybe I should have explained why I have such a distaste for his style? I'm glad we put a clip of Seth Rogan's laugh. Good analysis of theme in the movie, I could have brought up a more specific scene. Also I liked that I talked about how the characters actions showed the detrimental effects of marijuana use, even though the movie was supposed to cater towards stoners. Chloe arriving in the middle of it made it more exciting. The conversation starts to flow a lot better with three people and we discussed more specific details in the scenes."

After we finished listening and writing about our own podcast, we listened to the podcast from another group (and it could be from period 3 or 5). I would recommend listening to a podcast about a movie you have seen so that it is easier to follow because you are to write a paragraph evaluating their podcast on the blog. After listening, we posted a one paragraph analysis of their podcast. It included what we thought the best choices were, critiques, and what we look forward to for their podcast in the future.

Making podcasts is something that is new to many of us, but I think it is an exciting challenge. Because of our dependence on our phones, our social skills have deteriorated in many ways, making our generation terrible conversationalists at times. Podcasting is about discussing, analyzing, and questioning a topic that you are interested in. Therefore, by recording ourselves having intellectual conversations can translate into developing our ability to connect with other people by building our social skills.