Design, Develop, Create

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Podcasting - tips

The podcast will be live, not prerecorded. There will only be one take. We are very keen on balanced contributions from all participants. The moderator / host's role is to invite everyone to talk, to move the conversation along and gently redirect it if needed. 

The podcast host act as chief questioner/host/producer/director/audio engineer, cook and bottle washer. 

The guests role is to read any needed material in advance and collaborate with each other to make for lively panel discussion. Everyone should have something to say about everything. The panel concept is for a discussion of ideas not a presentation of the papers. 

We provide a running order / show notes. The order of questions (and indicated responses) are merely a starting point. The show notes / running order is to be used as a guide rather than a tight script and the show itself should take its own course. The structure of the running order is intended to shape rather than control a panel discussion. 

Usually there will be no need for guests to read aloud word-for-word scripted responses. However it is a good thing for guests to prepare in advance by writing out ideas, prepare bullet points or mind maps. If discussing a publication have a copy to hand with your own highlights or underlines. Regardless of whether we have a chance to read a prepared speech or not, the activity of preparing readies the mind and enables us to engage nimbly with the flow of a discussion. 

The first class of AY 2020: Sep 22 MIS41020 in room E101