Today's our last normal school day before exams. These 3 weeks have been ridiculous. So much stuff dumped you when you have EXAMS TO STUDY FOR. "HEY! YOU GOT EXAMZ?!?!? COOL. HERE ARE SOME PROJECTS TO HELP YOU STUDY!!!!" Woe is me. :( Luckily I'll be done with KAS for good once school ends. THEN OFF TO CALIFORNIA! Yay!
I really should be posting show notes.
I'll get to that.
Eventually.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
3 weeks
3 weeks of school left. School ends at the 24th. Yay! But the next 3 weeks are going to be hell. :(
Monday, April 23, 2007
Science Fair is May 1st
A classmate of mine, Basim, and I, have been working together on our experiment with solar cells. We're trying to see what color of light will make a solar cell output the most energy. It took AGES to find a color filter for our experiment, and once we did, we finished our experiment quickly. I really hope we can get like first, second, or third place. I was 5th place, honorable mention, last year. :D
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Engage Listener Tips
These are my tips I typed while I was listening to a podcast where Stacy Bonds gave tips on how to engage listeners to a podcast.
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People are engaged in a certain way while listening.
Audio is personal.
Audio is visual.
They listen while they're busy and thinking.
They listen with expectations.
Good audio engages people, inspires and entertains. Can inform also.
Build in breaks using rhythm.
You want them to create pictures in their head that are relevant to the audio.
Create pauses so the listeners can catch up.
Tone you use creates a message. Ex: "Mmmmmmm.mmm...mm...but you didn't answer my question."
Good audio entertains no matter what. Bad or Good news, entertaining.
People start thinking when they listen to a podcast because of the way it was put together and said.
Some podcasts "dump you right into the moment".
Listeners use format elements to listen to a podcast.
Say the name of your podcast, the number of your podcast, an audio, which creates an identity of your podcast, and the intro should reinforce the tone of the show.
Don't pick music that has words in it where you're talking over it.
People want to listen to the rhythm of the music. You don't want something that competes with you.
Have a regular segment. Every podcast, you can do something where people look forward to every podcast.
You can build a promo based on the regular segment.
You can have a tease in the beginning, teasing what's going to come up in the podcast.
Save announcements later for the show. You want to draw in the listeners in the beginning of the show.
You want to guide people in. You want to start off the show with something interesting.
Have a good build up.
If you have no format elements, listeners will start getting tired of the podcast.
When you're editing an interview, you want to have 1/3rd your voice and 2/3rds the interviewee's voice. They'll start to think the interviewee is talking for too long.
Pacing is very important and you can edit to create pacing.
A close is also good. Thank your listeners.
You can put an audio at the end of the show, which creates the identity of the podcast.
Have credits. It'll make it more professional.
You can some up with something that's just "normal" and it can evolve to something that's unique.
You want to edit so your podcast is more entertaining.
People want to know who and why a person is being interviewed.
You want to interview about a subject that's interesting. If it's not interesting to you, it most likely won't be interesting to the listeners, so don't bother.
When you reach the part what's happening now, the details, the listeners should be engaged now.
Also you can engage your listeners by saying "I'm not sure the listeners will agree with that. Lets see what they have to say"
By saying "How do you feel about this?", "What's in stake?", you bring up open ended questions. You can get a lot more out of the interviewee.
Putting music between segments is good so listeners can digest what they just listened to.
The length of a podcast depends on what the podcast is about and who the target listeners are.
__________________________________
People are engaged in a certain way while listening.
Audio is personal.
Audio is visual.
They listen while they're busy and thinking.
They listen with expectations.
Good audio engages people, inspires and entertains. Can inform also.
Build in breaks using rhythm.
You want them to create pictures in their head that are relevant to the audio.
Create pauses so the listeners can catch up.
Tone you use creates a message. Ex: "Mmmmmmm.mmm...mm...but you didn't answer my question."
Good audio entertains no matter what. Bad or Good news, entertaining.
People start thinking when they listen to a podcast because of the way it was put together and said.
Some podcasts "dump you right into the moment".
Listeners use format elements to listen to a podcast.
Say the name of your podcast, the number of your podcast, an audio, which creates an identity of your podcast, and the intro should reinforce the tone of the show.
Don't pick music that has words in it where you're talking over it.
People want to listen to the rhythm of the music. You don't want something that competes with you.
Have a regular segment. Every podcast, you can do something where people look forward to every podcast.
You can build a promo based on the regular segment.
You can have a tease in the beginning, teasing what's going to come up in the podcast.
Save announcements later for the show. You want to draw in the listeners in the beginning of the show.
You want to guide people in. You want to start off the show with something interesting.
Have a good build up.
If you have no format elements, listeners will start getting tired of the podcast.
When you're editing an interview, you want to have 1/3rd your voice and 2/3rds the interviewee's voice. They'll start to think the interviewee is talking for too long.
Pacing is very important and you can edit to create pacing.
A close is also good. Thank your listeners.
You can put an audio at the end of the show, which creates the identity of the podcast.
Have credits. It'll make it more professional.
You can some up with something that's just "normal" and it can evolve to something that's unique.
You want to edit so your podcast is more entertaining.
People want to know who and why a person is being interviewed.
You want to interview about a subject that's interesting. If it's not interesting to you, it most likely won't be interesting to the listeners, so don't bother.
When you reach the part what's happening now, the details, the listeners should be engaged now.
Also you can engage your listeners by saying "I'm not sure the listeners will agree with that. Lets see what they have to say"
By saying "How do you feel about this?", "What's in stake?", you bring up open ended questions. You can get a lot more out of the interviewee.
Putting music between segments is good so listeners can digest what they just listened to.
The length of a podcast depends on what the podcast is about and who the target listeners are.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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