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VoxPopping
Breakout Round 5 of ULearn07 with Ewan McIntosh - Making your Podcasting more Pro.
(Audio of the actual workshop session to be posted later).
In about 20 minutes our group (me, Marnie & Dawn) produced this voxpop. What’s a voxpop? I hear you ask. Well up until today I’d never heard of it either but man it was a lot of fun! I can so imagine my students doing this!
A Voxpop in television terms is a segment of a programme when members of the public
are asked for their opinions on an issue. …
Ian Peacock is probably the world’s best voxpopper! ( learnt that today). Our challenge was to go out and make our very own voxpop in 20 minutes, during which we had to try to interview Tony Ryan, interrupt a workshop session and interview some participants (thanks for letting us interrupt your session!) and interview someone from the CORE education team. (aka Derek Wenmoth)
We worked in 3’s for several reasons.
Person 1: To hold the laptop and press record
Person 2: To be the interviewer
Person 3: To be the “no-one’s going to bump into us” person (I kid you not) / polite “shhhhh please” person
We interviewed, recorded, and edited our voxpop using Audacity. Ewan had spent the first 15-20 minutes of the workshop introducing us to Podcasting in general, giving us some URLs to look at later and he showed us the three most important tools in audacity and how to use them. (see my notes here). The only thing we did not manage to do in the time frame was to import the audio. I spent about 10 minutes looking for audio on SoundSnap, importing it and adjusting it at the start and finish – honest!
We managed to earn a 1GB flashdrive from Enterprise in Education for our effort. It’s not a perfect voxpop by any means, but it was an awful lot of fun creating it from start to finish. Hats off to my two partners, Marnie and Dawn – you girls were great! Here’s our voxpop! Enjoy and just imagine what our students could do with this idea!
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October 6th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Hi there,
I’ve just been at ULearn too and my heads in a spin. Thanks for sharing what you did in your breakout with Ewan – I’ve downloaded Audacity and I’m ready to play. One of the best things about ULearn was finding out about all this cool stuff that I didn’t realise was out there. I’ve had a blog for my family stuff for ages and didn’t realise that so many NZ educators had blogs. I’ve just started a second blog to think through and document my learning, ideas, etc as I try to make sense of all this and infuse it into my classroom. I think I’m going to be a regular visitor now that I know that your blog ( and others) are out there.
October 6th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Thanks for posting it Chrissy! I had fun making it with you and can’t wait to do it with the kids. Happy teaching, great getting to know you!
October 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for the post. I REALLY wanted to go to this workshop of Ewan’s unfortunately I was presenting myself at the same time
But now I get to live vicariously through your experiences.
October 6th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Awesome post Chrissy- I was going to post about our workshop- I think I will just link to my podcast and your post now!!
October 7th, 2007 at 11:30 am
OK so now I know what Voxpopping is. I might try this for a podcast in the near future. I have to go now and get to grips a little with what is going to happen on Monday!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:23 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Chrissy, very cool! I like the way you did that. How did you record the audio on the fly like that? What did you use?
October 10th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Jane, Marnie, Nigel, Allanah -glad this post was useful! It really was a whole heap of fun and so easy!
Chris – we used a mac notebook’s built in mic, had audacity open and recorded it straight into there. (One person carried the laptop and pressed record & stop). I’ve got a Sony Digital Voice Recorder that my students will be using to do this rather than carrying around a laptop. I think an ipod recorder would do the trick too.