030 Podcasting in Education and The Skill of Listening

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Show 030 Quick-Guide

• The mighty Heather Ordover is our last guest co-host for She Podcasts for 2014.
• Remember when we did the Hollywood thing? Ya, that did happen.
• Be part of She Podcasts! Take action ASAP send in your feedback.
• We give you the scoop on what went down with the public hearing by the EFF on 12/17/2014 that presented to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a key claim to invalidate of a patent used by notorious patent troll Personal Audio to shake down podcasters.
• We have an idea of what season 2 for Serial should be…hmmmmmm.
• We do in fact have a conversation about patent law. Ya.
• Diving deep into a massively popular genre in podcasting Education.
• Why does a teacher decide to podcast about literature?
• The incredible culture of “being read to.”
• When children ask to read Shakespeare and redesigning a curriculum to teach to the joke.
• A Tale of Two Cities. It’s awesome.
• The audio brain vs the reading brain.
• And we do chat about the bias of reading-reading and “reading” and audio book.
• How Elsie reads now.
• Cognative Anchoring is revealed! Amazing stuff people.
• The room to expand your mind in all of the different podcast is there.
• Why and how what you listen to dictates how you move and grow in the world.
• It’s time to find a podcast that will help you break patterns. Go do it.
• And then there is Chop Bard and how it expands your brain. Or at least we geek out about it.
• A bit of Twelfth Night discussion.
• What is the distinction between podcasts and procasts?
• Audio quality may or may not deter new podcast listeners from stepping into more podcasts.
• There really are podcast seasons, not for your podcast, but for podcasters.
• Podcast numbers can be many things and only one aspect needs to be a commodity aka selling sponsorship
• A devoted fanbase does not signify money/sponsorship - if we subscribe to the existing media models.
• A devoted fanbase does not mean that they WILL buy when you have something to sell.
• Choose to go where your audience is - agree?
• Where are the women from She Podcasts Facebook group coming from?
• Community feedback can be super terrifying.
• Sometimes feedback can very much teach you exactly what matters to your audience.

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Participate in our end of the year episode!!!! This is what you need to do:

1. Record a piece of audio
2. Start your recording with: Hi, I’m < insert your name > from < your podcast name > over at < your website >
3. Answer these 3 questions:
   1. What is your hardware and software
   2. What are the biggest lessons that you learned this year about podcasting?
   3. What is one piece of advice that you would give a newbie podcaster, just starting out?
4. Email your audio piece to [e-mail] OR use WeTransfer by December 24, 2014!!!

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Links mentioned by Jess and Elsie!

• CraftLit
• Heather Ordover
• EFF to Challenge Podcasting Patent Before USPTO
• Sarah Koenig on The Colbert Report
• Chop Bard
• Soundsoap
• Adobe Audition
• Downloads, listens, listeners and about those podcast numbers

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