Digital Media Specialist
Guide Info
This guide was made to help students in the Media Literacy course through the process of creating their podcast assignment.
The goals for this podcast are:
- To highlight a person or people with marginalized gender identity in media in a way that hasn’t been previously done
- To use the potential reach of a podcast to shed light on how media have historically stereotyped gender marginalized people and to make your audience more media literate
- To figure out who the audience of your podcast would be and how best to reach them with the product you produce
- To use the power of sound to entertain and to inform
The purposes of this assignment are:
- To identify “found” audio materials and use them thoughtfully and creatively
- To learn how audio editing can alter the meanings of media messages
- To work collaboratively in a group
- The tasks for this assignment are:
- To identify relevant materials for your podcast
- To develop a production schedule
- To create your podcast
- To write a reflection paper on the experience