PODCASTING The Strangest Story Ever- A Traumatic Proposal

Hello to all of you again!

Today, I will be talking about my Educational Technologies course Podcasting task! It was my first podcasting experience like blogging. The task was writing a story involving at least 5 of the selected words by the instructor and by adding some sound effects like walking, coughing, etc. making this story a podcast. It sounded fun to me so I chose this one out of the four options. Creating a post on podcasting was also a part of the task so here I am, creating a post on PODCASTING!

First, I created many stories involving the selected words but most of them weren't good enough to create a podcast. I struggled a lot at this phase but in the end, I came up with a story idea summarizing all stories I created before. I wrote it down and practiced it to be able to vocalize it fluently. Then I searched for some sound effects to add to my podcast. I retrieved all my additional sound effects from www.freesound.org if you want to check. Then, I tried to vocalize it fluently and add the sound effects immediately after I read the related word. It was really hard for me but I think I managed it well. Then, I edited my podcast, and voilà.

I liked this task and I would assign this task to my students because it can be used as a tool in many ways. For example, I thought that it would be great to create a peer task involving making a podcast about giving and asking directions within the words post office, library, hospital, supermarket, and school. It may be hard to add the sound effects but other than that it is an effective tool to practice some phrases and become more fluent.

Here is my podcast; The Strangest Story Ever- A Traumatic Proposal. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to contact me if you have any ideas, questions, and comments.

Rabia Yüksel · The strangest story ever- a traumatic proposal

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