Podcasting Stars!

Our podcast was a very interesting experience. We chose to interview Janis Krums, the Twitter poster of the first breaking Hudson River plane crash picture. He lives in Sarasota, FL. We conducted the interview via Skype.

Our first dilemma was finding a way to record our conversation. We could not find a program that would adequately record both sides of our conversation. Skype does not have a recording feature. So, we brainstormed to record each side separately on Audacity. We had Janis download Audacity and the proper applications to send us his recorded side of our Podcast. He was very patient as we struggled with our computer issues!

The interview went well, for students rather than professional reporters. Janis made a really interesting interview and I am so glad we chose to do our Podcast with him. I hope that people outside of our class will hear our interview too, because he really is an interesting guy. After he exported his recorded side of the interview as an mp3, he sent that to us. We cut the two recorded sides together, and began to edit all of our mistakes.

I was very surprised with the clarity of the recording, considering we did the interview through Skype. Listening to the edited interview, you can not tell that we did the interview over Skype, or that we recorded both sides separately. I am so glad it worked out perfectly!

These programs continue to impress me the more I learn of them. It is amazing that we are able to interview Janis all the way in Sarasota, FL, and then send it to him to listen to. We are very happy, and very impressed with our finished product!