Indigenous Podcast

Introduction

Here is My COL and English 9 project “Indigenous Exploration Podcast” in This podcast episode Me and my Partner Jordan discussed the long-standing issue with the water in many indigenous reserves. To make this podcast we used audacity to record and we used Blue snowball mics. we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

As we said in our podcast before, the indigenous people deserve to have clean water, they shouldn’t have to even think about whether their water is safe, they should be able to turn on their tap, fill up a glass and have a drink without thinking about it. 

 

 

 

 

My Reflection

When we created this assignment we didn’t know where to start, neither of us had recorded a podcast so we didn’t know what we needed to do, on top of that we were on a bit more narrow of a timeline than we were used to, this resulted in us having to do more homework to make sure that we were always caught up with the rest of the class and able to follow the timeline that was given to us. Making this project I experienced how podcasts are made, learned how to better manage my time, and learned what it was like to get a topic and with no further information, research and find enough content to fit a 7-minute podcast episode.

The path Jordan and I took while researching the topic went as follows. First, we were informed on some of the resources we could use to research for our project, secondly, we had decided to split up and said that one of us would research our topic on one of the research platforms that was shown to us and the other person would do the same thing but on a different platform, thirdly we compiled all of our research into a shared google doc, and finally we ordered our content and figured out a way to convey that information as a conversation.

We encountered many obstacles while we were recording and learned many things while doing so. Some of the obstacles we encountered were,  we couldn’t find a quiet room to record as we had a room the day before, audacity didn’t let us record for some reason, we found out all the music that we had selected for the episode was not royalty free and we also didn’t know who was going to say what and that took a bit of getting used to. We learned a lot of things such as how to script a podcast, and that you need to really look closely at the little details to make sure that what you think you understand is what you are meant to understand because if you think you understand something and then you find out that is is wrong you have to do a lot more work fixing your error than if you were just to put in the little bit of extra work at the start. We also learned how a good working cooperative team should look, and that if you mess up mid-sentence while recording you should re-record the whole sentence rather than starting recording halfway through the sentence( we would have done this but we didn’t have the time to do so.)

Core Competencies Question

For this part, I chose this question: What are some ways that you use to communicate your learning?

I communicated my learning in many different ways such as spoken word (podcast), conversation (podcast), and written word (reflection). I was able to ask and answer direct questions through my research and my podcast and I was also able to present and share ideas with an audience through my podcast. This project required me to be in a group with a partner and there was a lot of collaboration that went on there. Such as us making sure that we have each other’s contact information so we can stay in touch and talk about the project outside of school, we also had to figure out how we were going to split the script in an even way. All of this required a lot of collaboration and a lot of communication.

Works Cited

https://curio.ca/en/catalog/ec6cc8bc-2802-4117-8902-caa789be2a65

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/carmacks-boil-water-sewage-release-1.6697035

https://go-gale-com.bc.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Magazines&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=1&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA243713846&docType=Article&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAS-MOD1&prodId=CIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA243713846&searchId=R3&userGroupName=43riss&inPS=true