Podcast
Podcast
Podcast
Podcasts are like mini documentaries and could take the form of audio or audio/ video. They are based on news, events, or history, and use elements of direct observation, research, interviews, and documentation.
Learning to podcast strengthens media and communication skills and allows young people to connect with people affected by environmental issues in their community as well as with people who have in-depth environmental knowledge.
Podcasts can either be audio-only podcast or video. There are four different formats your podcast might take:
Solo Podcast
In a Solo Podcast a single host delivers the content, which offers a flexible format for time management but requires strong storytelling skills to keep the audience engaged.
Multi-Host Podcast
A Multi-Host Podcast is a discussion between two or more students or experts to offer contrasting viewpoints or create a conversation about an issue.
Interview Podcast
An Interview Podcast features interviews with experts, activists, or community members affected by environmental issues or participating in a featured project.
Narrative Podcast
A Narrative Podcast is a documentary storytelling style podcast with a non-fictional or fictional environmental theme told by a narrator.
Criteria
No matter what format your Podcast takes, there are some criteria to follow:
- Your Podcast should have a title of no more than 140 characters.
- Any quotes, facts, statistics and scientific information used must be from real and credible sources.
- Sources and resources must be cited in a References List.
- Approximately 70% of the podcast should be made up of students’ own original voice recording and audio. If external audio is used (music, sounds effects, soundbites), the source must be cited in your References List.
- Your podcast should be a fair and truthful representation of reality, and the sound or recording should not be altered.
- Address historical, economic, social, or political implications of your chosen topic with an environmental focus, and should show the link between local and global issues.
- Identify a relevant and feasible solutions to an environmental issue.
- The podcast is original in subject and/or scope. The student has picked a challenging and/or creative topic or has depicted a topic in a different and/or creative wa
- Participants should engage in fieldwork, research or interviews outside of their school grounds or home education setting.
