- From www.futurelearn.com
The Power of Podcasting for Storytelling
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 2 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on October 28, 2018
- Ends on November 11, 2018
Course details
Syllabus
What topics will you cover?
- Introduction to telling stories using audio
- The elements of a podcasting narrative and how to combine these elements authentically
- The software and hardware involved in producing a podcast
- Writing a narrative to suit audio
- The common pitfalls
- Different genres of podcast
- Introduction to finding good talent
- The process of being discovered and heard by an audience
Prerequisite
This course is for anyone who is interested in creating a podcast, or learning more about podcasts. It might also be useful for people working in media and communications.
Instructors
Siobhan McHugh
My podcasts include the award-winning Phoebe's Fall, Wrong Skin (with Fairfax Media), Heart of Artness. I founded RadioDoc Review to critique podcasts. As A/Prof I research and teach podcasting at uni
Grace Stranger
Grace Stranger is a recent graduate of Journalism at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is currently working as a freelance podcasting producer and as a social media content manager.
Editor
Wollongong University is a large university in Australia with about 22,000 students. It is a public university whose campus is located in the city of Wollongong in New South Wales about 80 km south of Sydney.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.