The Pod Class

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The Pod Class is a weekly lesson in audio storytelling featuring the COM 271 podcasting class at Purdue University and hosted by the professor, Toni DeAztlan Smith. Each week we will bring you lessons from the class, discuss teaching audio storytelling, and hear from students about their own work. If you're interested in learning podcasting or in teaching it - this is the pod for you!

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Episode #4 Field Audio Fiasco 04.03.2022 20:08

Some weeks, you realize that the lesson didn't go as planned and you need to re-adjust. In this episode, we discuss how to pivot for students when they are not as prepared as you thought they would be. Our guest is De'keva Tindal, host of the Savvy SciTech podcast.

Office Hours w/ Ava and Kyle 25.02.2022 5:41

How did I end up teaching Podcasting? You might be surprised.

Episode #3 Storytelling, Pizza, and Wine 25.02.2022 18:59

Is anyone else a huge fan of Ira Glass? I was introduced to This American Life as an undergraduate and now, I am passing along the love of narrative storytelling to my students. We also talk to Ava and Kyle - students in this semester's podcasting class, about their approach to storytelling for their podcasts. One is about wine and the other is about pizza. 

BONUS: Office Hours w/ Dub Jellison 18.02.2022 4:21

How do professors really feel about "bad" students?

Episode #2 Purpose of previews & advice from another student podcaster 18.02.2022 25:29

In this episode we take a listen to the class' preview episodes from last week. We also talk to Dub Jellison, a senior at Purdue University and host of The Dub Jellison Podcast about his podcasting journey and hear his advice to my students.

Episode #1 Pitching the Pod 11.02.2022 8:50

In this first preview episode, you'll hear students pitch their podcast idea and the professor explains what a pitch needs to be successful.

#603 Voice Talk 12:17

Our podcasting voice, our regular voice, our voice that we use with our grandma, the voice we use with our pets. We have all these different versions of ourselves that you can hear in the way we use our voice. But weirdly, it's also the thing that we dislike about ourselves. We hate hearing our own voice. And so that is a topic I like to explore with my students because the fact of the matter...