Podcast Challenge
Handouts in class:
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AP Lang from 2022-23
ALL SUBMISSIONS
AP Lang from 2021-22=
School Based Instagrams: Quirky or Dangerous
Parody of True Crime Podcastopen.spotify.com/show/42qHu0CS2srXen5G5jOoEj (funny/scary)
2022 ALL submissions
AP Lang from 2020-21=
Florida Frights = soundcloud.com/matt-monroe-678593489/podcast-breakdown-12-florida-frights
The Hometown Killer - Aileen Wournos
The Next Ted Bundy: Mr Rohol?
2021 ALL submissions
AP Lang from 2019-2020=
I would encourage you to see if you can best the AP Lang kids which had good ones about Gen Z vs boomers https://soundcloud.com/user-346913209-168682759/podcast-project
OR veganism https://soundcloud.com/nathan-lacerna/veganism-debate
or exotic pet ownership https://soundcloud.com/sophia-z-685117319/sb1414
or (NPR HONORABLE MENTION) a short 5 minute one about Florida Man https://soundcloud.com/user-380506655/whats-the-deal-with-florida-man-student-podcast-challenge
2020 ALL Submissions
ALL SUBMISSIONS
AP Lang from 2021-22=
School Based Instagrams: Quirky or Dangerous
Parody of True Crime Podcastopen.spotify.com/show/42qHu0CS2srXen5G5jOoEj (funny/scary)
2022 ALL submissions
AP Lang from 2020-21=
Florida Frights = soundcloud.com/matt-monroe-678593489/podcast-breakdown-12-florida-frights
The Hometown Killer - Aileen Wournos
The Next Ted Bundy: Mr Rohol?
2021 ALL submissions
AP Lang from 2019-2020=
I would encourage you to see if you can best the AP Lang kids which had good ones about Gen Z vs boomers https://soundcloud.com/user-346913209-168682759/podcast-project
OR veganism https://soundcloud.com/nathan-lacerna/veganism-debate
or exotic pet ownership https://soundcloud.com/sophia-z-685117319/sb1414
or (NPR HONORABLE MENTION) a short 5 minute one about Florida Man https://soundcloud.com/user-380506655/whats-the-deal-with-florida-man-student-podcast-challenge
2020 ALL Submissions
NPR Student Podcast Challenge HOMEPAGE (winning 2021 podcasts on this page; contest rules HERE)
Check the episodes on the actual podcast for NPR's Student Podcast Challenge
Listen to 2020 main winners and the list of all the finalist episodes
The audio/podcast of the 2 winners from the 2019 contest (& 8 other student podcasts they liked)
Starting a Podcast Guide for Students
Lessons on how to do podcasts by NY Times
Another set of intro tips when starting a podcast
Questions to ask before you pick your podcast/episode topic
Curriculum Guide for Educators
Prompts (from NPR) - You can create your podcast entry in any class or extracurricular group, on any topic. If it helps, here are some suggestions:
Audacity (for Mac/PC) ... [to download Audacity on a school laptop search in Windows bar "Company Portal" then search for it and install)
can consider WeVideo or Adobe Spark (Audacity tutorials & Audacity Beginners video tutorials) (Audacity's actual user manual & their quick help guide)
How to edit audio in Audacity video
Other examples of free online audio editing software that can be used on Windows or Google devices include Soundtrap (free for 14 days, then premium) and Beautiful Audio Editor.
UPLOAD REQUIREMENTS FOR SOUNDCLOUD
Which audio file types are best to record podcasts in
Yeti mic owner's manual (see pg 4 for recording modes) HERE
Recording tip: you can try to use the Online Piano for recordings
Recording tips: How to build a pillow fort
Recording tips: Training your voice before recording a podcast
Recording tips: Checklist before doing a field interview
Audio Editing Terms & Producer's handbook to audio mixing & Tips on recording active/real-world sounds
Submission/Upload steps/directions (& how to use Soundcloud) ... I (the teacher) have to do the final steps
Check the episodes on the actual podcast for NPR's Student Podcast Challenge
Listen to 2020 main winners and the list of all the finalist episodes
The audio/podcast of the 2 winners from the 2019 contest (& 8 other student podcasts they liked)
Starting a Podcast Guide for Students
Lessons on how to do podcasts by NY Times
Another set of intro tips when starting a podcast
Questions to ask before you pick your podcast/episode topic
Curriculum Guide for Educators
Prompts (from NPR) - You can create your podcast entry in any class or extracurricular group, on any topic. If it helps, here are some suggestions:
- Tell us a story about your school or community: about something that happened there — recently or in the past — that your audience should know about.
- What is a moment in history that all students should learn about?
- Show us both sides of a debate about an issue that's important to you.
- What do you want to change about the world? What's a big change that you want to make in the future?
- Explain something to us that kids understand and grown-ups don't.
Audacity (for Mac/PC) ... [to download Audacity on a school laptop search in Windows bar "Company Portal" then search for it and install)
can consider WeVideo or Adobe Spark (Audacity tutorials & Audacity Beginners video tutorials) (Audacity's actual user manual & their quick help guide)
How to edit audio in Audacity video
Other examples of free online audio editing software that can be used on Windows or Google devices include Soundtrap (free for 14 days, then premium) and Beautiful Audio Editor.
UPLOAD REQUIREMENTS FOR SOUNDCLOUD
Which audio file types are best to record podcasts in
Yeti mic owner's manual (see pg 4 for recording modes) HERE
Recording tip: you can try to use the Online Piano for recordings
Recording tips: How to build a pillow fort
Recording tips: Training your voice before recording a podcast
Recording tips: Checklist before doing a field interview
Audio Editing Terms & Producer's handbook to audio mixing & Tips on recording active/real-world sounds
Submission/Upload steps/directions (& how to use Soundcloud) ... I (the teacher) have to do the final steps
Day 1 stuff:
ep 1+2 of Student Podcast Challenge podcast 2+12min
The audio/podcast of the 2 winners from the 2019 contest
Intro samples:
Hidden Brain min 0-2.30
Serial podcast season1ep1 min 0-1.20?
The Dollop (comedy) min 0-1
HOW TO START A PODCAST (WITH EXAMPLES) ... FROM NPR
The Daily (2nd Amendment) min0-1?
Setup storytelling (or backstory/dateline) samples & Quality storytelling:
Hidden Brain (same episode as above) min 3.10-3.40? (about warnings we don't pay attention to... aka global warming)
A Different Window (a personal portrait of blindness) 7min
Other format options:
Tater tots example min0-2? & tales from Walmart parking lot & a word a day podcast (kerfuffle)
Outro (credits/acknowledgements) samples:
99% invisible min 39.10 to end
Samples of Commercials:
A sample teacher's podcast class' Soundcloud Page
ep 1+2 of Student Podcast Challenge podcast 2+12min
The audio/podcast of the 2 winners from the 2019 contest
Intro samples:
Hidden Brain min 0-2.30
Serial podcast season1ep1 min 0-1.20?
The Dollop (comedy) min 0-1
HOW TO START A PODCAST (WITH EXAMPLES) ... FROM NPR
The Daily (2nd Amendment) min0-1?
Setup storytelling (or backstory/dateline) samples & Quality storytelling:
Hidden Brain (same episode as above) min 3.10-3.40? (about warnings we don't pay attention to... aka global warming)
A Different Window (a personal portrait of blindness) 7min
Other format options:
Tater tots example min0-2? & tales from Walmart parking lot & a word a day podcast (kerfuffle)
Outro (credits/acknowledgements) samples:
99% invisible min 39.10 to end
Samples of Commercials:
A sample teacher's podcast class' Soundcloud Page
Podcast useful episode suggestions:
1 Radiolab: Colors
2 Radiolab: Out of Sight (on imagination, blindness, etc
3 RadioLab: Post No Evil
4 Radiolab: The Skull (storytelling, artifacts, knowledge of the past)
5 Radiolab: The Buried Bodies Cases (legal conventions, ethics, etc)
6 Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma
7 Radiolab: Translation
8 Radiolab: More or Less Human (60min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2OU4uT1U0
9 Sleepwalkers: The Watchmen (about AI and digital surveillance)
10 Uncivil podcast: The Assets (a podcast correcting the historical record about slavery; this one about big insurance companies who saw human life as a commodity)
11 Open Questions podcast: Can Helping Strangers Make Up for Past Injustices? (on how to operationalize a process for reparations)
12 Pessimists Archive: Coffee (episode 9)
13 Pessimists Archive: Recorded Music (scroll down to episode 3)
14 Pessimist Archive: The Novel (scroll to Episode 14)
15 Pessimist Archive: Teddy Bears
16 Pessimists Archive: Electricity (43 min) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pessimists-archive-podcast/e/54030934 (Creek grads are the voice actors)
17 Revisionist History: Hallelujah (mostly about music and form tied to that song)
18 Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox (deals with Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, artistic mockery of reality)
19 1A podcast: The Great Unknown with Marcus Du Satoy (big nat sci questions, free will)
20 Ted Radio Hour: The Unknown Brain
21 NPR'S Hidden Brain: One Head, Two Brains
22 NPR'S Hidden Brain: Vegetable Lamb (on how misinformation spreads)
23 NPR's Hidden Brain: Man Up (the prison of masculinity)
24 PBS Hidden Brain: You Can't Hit Unsend (college admissions and student social media posts)
25 PBS The Hidden Brain: Creating God (53 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god
26 PBS The Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect (38 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect
27 NPR Throughline: Zombies (zombies as metaphor for voodoo/race)
28 NPR Throughline: The Dark Side of the Moon (our use of ex-Nazi rocket scientists)
29 NPR Code Switch: Death of a Blood Sport (cockfighting)
30 This American Life: 81 words (on the story behind removing homosexuality as a DSM disorder in 1971)
31 This American Life: In Defense of Ignorance
32 Freakanomics: Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth
33 Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Ship of Theseus
34 You Are Not So Smart: Reality
35 You are not So Smart: 124 – Belief Change Blindness (40ish min) https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/124-belief-change-blindness
36 You are Not So Smart: The Half Life of Facts
37 You are Not So Smart: Change My View (somewhat on the value of that Reddit community in public debate)
38 You are Not So Smart: How we transferred our biases into our machines/algorithms
39 99& Invisible: 306 - Breaking Bad News (41 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/
40 99% Invisible: 309 – The Vault (29 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
41 99% Invisible: 303 – The Hair Chart (28 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/
42 Stuff to Blow your Mind: From the Vault – Post-Empirical Science (72 min) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/from-the-vault-post-empirical-science.htm
43 Stuff you Should Know: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (50 min; at the bottom on the first page) https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/stanford-prison-experiment.htm ( fyi too on this HERE)
44 Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Union – American Pendulum Reprise (46 min; June 26 2018 episode) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect
45 NPR Embedded: The Apology Broker (41 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619746115/the-apology-broker
46 (for Shakespeare lovers only) Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar (41 min) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lend_me_your_ears/2018/05/lend_me_your_ears_podcast_episode_1_shakespeare_s_julius_caesar.html
47 Lexicon Valley: New Life for Dying Languages
48 Everyday Ethics: Medical Conscious
49 Everyday Ethics: The Ethics of Taking Good from Evil
50 Everyday Ethics: College (18 min; load / scroll down to April 18 2018 episode; not the greatest but kinda relevant) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/484357984/everyday-ethics
51 WorkLife: The Perils of Following Your Career Passion
52 NPR Code Switch: The Birth of a "New Negro" (for AP Lang folks; on Alain Locke)
53 Mind Matters: The Fast Track to College (the only podcast episode that explore benefits/problems of the AP program)
54 REVISIONIST HISTORY - FOOT SOLDIER OF BIRMINGHAM
55 99% INVISIBLE- RETURN OF ONATE'S FOOT
56 You Are Not So Smart ep 198 - Reflection + Insurrection (the brain basis for the Capital Hill storming)
57 NPR Rough Translation - We still Don't Say That (racism and language)
58 NPR Code Switch - is it time to say RIP to POC?
59 Reveal - Monumental Lies
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO:
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
You are Not So Smart
Build for Tomorrow (formerly Pessimists Archive)
On Being with Krista Tippett
Philosophize This!
Conversations with Coleman
This American Life
Against the Rules (Michael Lewis)
NPR Code Switch
Crazy/Genius
Uncivil
Sleepwalkers
NPR Throughline
Cautionary Tales
Decoder Ring
Spectacular Failures
NPR Invisibilia
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists (or Spectacular Vernacular)
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court) - start back in Season 1
Freakonomics Radio
NPR Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Biteseveryday
Everyday Ethics
The Happiness Lab
WSJ's The Future of Everything
It Was Said
Opinion Science
Unexplainable
Not Past It
A Slight Change of Plans
People I (Mostly) Admire
Things Fell Apart
Think with Pinker
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
50 things that made the modern economy
Invention
Ologies w/ Alie Ward
1 Radiolab: Colors
2 Radiolab: Out of Sight (on imagination, blindness, etc
3 RadioLab: Post No Evil
4 Radiolab: The Skull (storytelling, artifacts, knowledge of the past)
5 Radiolab: The Buried Bodies Cases (legal conventions, ethics, etc)
6 Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma
7 Radiolab: Translation
8 Radiolab: More or Less Human (60min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2OU4uT1U0
9 Sleepwalkers: The Watchmen (about AI and digital surveillance)
10 Uncivil podcast: The Assets (a podcast correcting the historical record about slavery; this one about big insurance companies who saw human life as a commodity)
11 Open Questions podcast: Can Helping Strangers Make Up for Past Injustices? (on how to operationalize a process for reparations)
12 Pessimists Archive: Coffee (episode 9)
13 Pessimists Archive: Recorded Music (scroll down to episode 3)
14 Pessimist Archive: The Novel (scroll to Episode 14)
15 Pessimist Archive: Teddy Bears
16 Pessimists Archive: Electricity (43 min) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pessimists-archive-podcast/e/54030934 (Creek grads are the voice actors)
17 Revisionist History: Hallelujah (mostly about music and form tied to that song)
18 Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox (deals with Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, artistic mockery of reality)
19 1A podcast: The Great Unknown with Marcus Du Satoy (big nat sci questions, free will)
20 Ted Radio Hour: The Unknown Brain
21 NPR'S Hidden Brain: One Head, Two Brains
22 NPR'S Hidden Brain: Vegetable Lamb (on how misinformation spreads)
23 NPR's Hidden Brain: Man Up (the prison of masculinity)
24 PBS Hidden Brain: You Can't Hit Unsend (college admissions and student social media posts)
25 PBS The Hidden Brain: Creating God (53 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god
26 PBS The Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect (38 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect
27 NPR Throughline: Zombies (zombies as metaphor for voodoo/race)
28 NPR Throughline: The Dark Side of the Moon (our use of ex-Nazi rocket scientists)
29 NPR Code Switch: Death of a Blood Sport (cockfighting)
30 This American Life: 81 words (on the story behind removing homosexuality as a DSM disorder in 1971)
31 This American Life: In Defense of Ignorance
32 Freakanomics: Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth
33 Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Ship of Theseus
34 You Are Not So Smart: Reality
35 You are not So Smart: 124 – Belief Change Blindness (40ish min) https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/124-belief-change-blindness
36 You are Not So Smart: The Half Life of Facts
37 You are Not So Smart: Change My View (somewhat on the value of that Reddit community in public debate)
38 You are Not So Smart: How we transferred our biases into our machines/algorithms
39 99& Invisible: 306 - Breaking Bad News (41 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/
40 99% Invisible: 309 – The Vault (29 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
41 99% Invisible: 303 – The Hair Chart (28 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/
42 Stuff to Blow your Mind: From the Vault – Post-Empirical Science (72 min) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/from-the-vault-post-empirical-science.htm
43 Stuff you Should Know: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (50 min; at the bottom on the first page) https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/stanford-prison-experiment.htm ( fyi too on this HERE)
44 Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Union – American Pendulum Reprise (46 min; June 26 2018 episode) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect
45 NPR Embedded: The Apology Broker (41 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619746115/the-apology-broker
46 (for Shakespeare lovers only) Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar (41 min) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lend_me_your_ears/2018/05/lend_me_your_ears_podcast_episode_1_shakespeare_s_julius_caesar.html
47 Lexicon Valley: New Life for Dying Languages
48 Everyday Ethics: Medical Conscious
49 Everyday Ethics: The Ethics of Taking Good from Evil
50 Everyday Ethics: College (18 min; load / scroll down to April 18 2018 episode; not the greatest but kinda relevant) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/484357984/everyday-ethics
51 WorkLife: The Perils of Following Your Career Passion
52 NPR Code Switch: The Birth of a "New Negro" (for AP Lang folks; on Alain Locke)
53 Mind Matters: The Fast Track to College (the only podcast episode that explore benefits/problems of the AP program)
54 REVISIONIST HISTORY - FOOT SOLDIER OF BIRMINGHAM
55 99% INVISIBLE- RETURN OF ONATE'S FOOT
56 You Are Not So Smart ep 198 - Reflection + Insurrection (the brain basis for the Capital Hill storming)
57 NPR Rough Translation - We still Don't Say That (racism and language)
58 NPR Code Switch - is it time to say RIP to POC?
59 Reveal - Monumental Lies
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO:
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
You are Not So Smart
Build for Tomorrow (formerly Pessimists Archive)
On Being with Krista Tippett
Philosophize This!
Conversations with Coleman
This American Life
Against the Rules (Michael Lewis)
NPR Code Switch
Crazy/Genius
Uncivil
Sleepwalkers
NPR Throughline
Cautionary Tales
Decoder Ring
Spectacular Failures
NPR Invisibilia
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists (or Spectacular Vernacular)
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court) - start back in Season 1
Freakonomics Radio
NPR Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Biteseveryday
Everyday Ethics
The Happiness Lab
WSJ's The Future of Everything
It Was Said
Opinion Science
Unexplainable
Not Past It
A Slight Change of Plans
People I (Mostly) Admire
Things Fell Apart
Think with Pinker
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
50 things that made the modern economy
Invention
Ologies w/ Alie Ward
FORMER STUDENTS / CREEK GRADS WHO PODCAST (are uncensored)
The Missionary (Rajiv Golla)
Brian at the Disco (mostly pop culture, movies)
Dunn and Drew (mostly sports talk)
May 2 2022 : Podcast Group Formation Day!
Submit on a sheet of paper (1 per group) these answers:
1) Group Member Names & Job Role(s)
2) Episode topic/title/concept
3) How are you going to start the podcast?
4) How are you going to structure the podcast?
5) What do you think are the biggest hurdles you’ll have or you still need to figure out?
6) Who is your recording expert / audio engineer / sound mixer / tech person? (if it isn't obvious in question 1)
TODAY / TONIGHT’s task for the audio editor/mixer:
Play around and see if you prefer Anchor.fm or Audacity or some other program (GarageBand, etc)
Set up a Soundcloud account
May 2 etc:
On your audio editor/mixer’s cell phone with Anchor.fm OR your laptop with Audacity, record in sequence:
1) An interview question (&answer) that you start my saying “Segment 2, (question…)”
2) Record a noise (ex: drop a book or clap your hands or click tongue) that you start by saying “Our noise”
3) A voice over narrator that announces the show and all students in group by name that you start my saying “Segment 1, (question…)”
The audio editor needs to:
1) Create a Soundcloud account (free) on laptop/cell
2) Using either Anchor.fm (mostly cell phone) or Audacity (PC), remix your recordings into this order: segment 1, 2, noise
3) Upload the episode/podcast (single file) to Soundcloud and share the URL/link to [email protected] before class tomorrow
NOTE: I do have an upscale USB mic if you don’t like the sound quality you are getting in the practice task.
Recording apps: Anchor.fm for cell phone (tutorial videos for Anchor)