For my Indigenous exploration project, I chose to do my podcast on Indigenous incarceration and worked with Zoey and Maliyah.

 

Reflection

I had a positive experience creating this assignment because not only did I get to work efficiently with my friends, but I also learned a lot about a serious issue in Canada. Out of all the difficulties Indigenous peoples experience in Canada, I found incarceration the most interesting because it was something that likely didn’t sound as sympathetic as the other issues like poor health care and education, which is easy to see as something that’s bad and should be changed. My group all agreed on the topic and so we started researching so many new startling facts about Indigenous incarceration before sharing it to the world with a podcast. I enjoyed making the podcast because it was easier than a video and we could just read off our script. With Audacity, the podcast came out clear and audible, which is why I’m happy with our finished product. After choosing our topic, we brainstormed six different subtopics that related to incarceration and split it into two each to research, which made it very time efficient and quick. We used the databases and Google to find websites to read before paraphrasing the information into concise sentences in our shared research document. While recording, we found it hard to set up the microphone because it wasn’t connecting to the laptop, but we troubleshooted and eventually got it to work. After we finished recording, we struggled with editing out errors since it was challenging to find the exact part and deleting enough that the mistake was gone, but not too much so that it didn’t sound off. I first communicated my ideas to my groupmates so that we could brainstorm ideas for our research. We bounced ideas back and forth until we settled on the topics we wanted and were happy with. Through the research process, I showed my learning through the shared Google document, which I used to write all the research I collected so that I could explain it to my teammates. Lastly, I used our finished podcast to demonstrate my learning as it is a culmination of everything I’ve learned about Indigenous incarceration shown in a concise six-minute podcast.

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