Category - Internet/Media
Topic - Podcasting
Issue - A review of some podcasts created by teens
Tiptoid -
In our Multimedia Productions program we were planning to prepare and produce podcasts to post on our school website. Our Multimedia teacher wanted us to find out more about this topic before we got started on our own podcast project. So we did some research.
We found an article in the Wall Street Journal called “Kid Casts.” The article reviewed podcasts some teens have uploaded on to their websites. The topics of the podcasts were very different, so we learned that podcasts offer a way to let teens share their common interests with other people, using the internet.
Podcasts also give teens the chance to record their innermost thoughts and feelings. They are not just digital diaries, however. For example, one girl started an internet radio show called EmoGirlTalk www.emogirl.com. She plays all of her favorite music, which attracts bloggers of all ages. Each week she posts hour long podcasts of “emo” music (this means, emotionally charged punk), produced by independent bands, and she talks about them. She has even interviewed some band members. Her father helps her, and she even has corporate sponsors!
Podcasts like this one are popping up all the time on the internet. And now that we see some of the possibilities of this intriguing medium, we are ready to make our own podcast to post on our school website. This is exciting!
Glossary -
podcast - a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers
Find Out More -
"Kid Casts," The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2006.
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June 2007