My first podcast
I finished the podcast for HigherEdBlogCon today. It clocks in at twenty-one minutes and change; it started at twenty-three, but I went through and killed a lot of dead air.
Podcasting is sorta fun, if you can stand the sound of your own voice. I can, but only just barely; where did those horrendous Porky Pig sibilants come from? Maybe I should see an orthodontist. I’ll give myself props for speaking with a decent flow, though (and no, I did not just read my paper, because who wants to hear that?). The original recording was done in fits and starts, but I got all twenty-odd minutes of the talk in well under an hour. I only had to clean up a couple of fluffs (left a couple in; I’m only human), and I only cut one sentence out of the entire ’cast as being pointless.
It took me a bit of time to get the hang of GarageBand, but once I (with the able help of a colleague) sussed out what the controls were and what the cursor-changes meant, it wasn’t too bad.
While mileage does vary, I won’t be giving up blogging for podcasting any time soon. It took me hideous amounts of time to edit twenty decent minutes of talk, and that was with a paper prepared already. Plus, the paper is only eight pages long—at a minute or so of reading-time per page, you do the math. Auditory learners will just have to pass me right on by, I fear.
Yeah, so it’ll be at HEBC sometime the week of April 10 April 13, which seems somehow fitting even though it’s not Friday. When I see it go up, I’ll self-archive it too, of course.