Overview
Welcome to Storytelling Fellows: Podcasting, a four-week completely online workshop for UW graduate students interested in podcasting. In this time, you will be able to develop a podcast with the help of the Storytelling Fellows Coaching Team and other wonderful UW students from different disciplines across four synchronous online sessions. This workshop features a set of self-directed learning materials, ongoing conversation and discussion, and live online meetings where members of the Coaching Team and the cohort get together to discuss production progress and status updates.
If you’re interested in learning more, contact Elliott Stevens (res22@uw.edu), Eve Kausch (ekausch@uw.edu) or Perry Yee (perryyee@uw.edu) for information. And if you would like to join us, consider registering for the next workshop.
Live Sessions
A detailed view of lesson plans are available on the site.
Workshop overview and objectives
This short and intensive workshop will guide you through the development of your own podcast production.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Produce a short 2-5 minute podcast segment by recording, editing, reviewing, transcribing, and reflecting on your work.
- Identify a number of tools, platforms, and strategies for developing and hosting a podcast.
- Learn about the importance of accessibility, preservation, open access, and digital safety.
Participants are expected to draft a podcast production plan and will be asked to complete a transcript for their podcast. You will actively participate in workshop discussions and are expected to attend live sessions in Zoom.
During the workshop, participants will share their progress regarding digital stories with the Coaching Team and fellow workshop participants. To get the most out of your participation, we encourage you to commit to attending all four scheduled sessions.
Deliverables
- Radio introduction
- Podcast production (audio file)
- Metadata spreadsheet
- Complete accessible transcript
We estimate you will likely spend 10-20 hours producing a podcast in this workshop. This estimate includes planning and workshopping your idea, producing a draft, sharing your work with workshop peers and finalizing your podcast.
How does the Storytelling Fellows workshop work?
Communication
Your main mode of communication with the Coaching Team and other workshop participants will be Discord. Get acquainted with Discord as soon as possible and check for updates regularly throughout the workshop. Consider enabling alerts and notifications to stay on top of the latest updates in Discord. We recommend using the desktop or mobile apps.
Meetings
In synchronous meetings, you are expected to fully participate and engage with the content. It is preferable to connect using both video and audio. Use a webcam or microphone if you have access to one, or consider joining us using the Zoom smartphone app. During the workshop, the Coaching Team is open to holding drop-in hours and consultations via Zoom. These sessions can be organized in Discord.
Materials
You can find all learning materials on this website in the menu tabs. Additional instructional material may be provided through other platforms.
Assignments
Deliverables are due by each workshop session. Note that each session has multiple tiers of completion. We do hope that you will join us even if no progress has been made from session to session. We just want to connect with you and hear about your stories. Work can be submitted in the workshop via Discord or through shareable documents . Coaching Team members will instruct you where to upload materials for assignments during the workshop.
Technical requirements
Participants in this workshop are expected to participate in live, synchronous, virtual discussions. To effectively engage in these discussions, we ask you to:
- A computer that allows you to download and install the Audacity application.
- Download the UW Zoom to your computer.
- Use a headset or earbuds for synchronous sessions.
- This workshop utilizes a real-time collaboration and communication tool known as Discord. Participants will join a Discord server exclusive to this workshop and are encouraged to use this tool for discussion and connecting to others.
- Participants will record their narratives on audio recording equipment available to them through their affiliation with UW, or on personal equipment such as smartphones or similar devices. We may also utilize functionality through UW Zoom to record interviews and generate transcripts.
Having audio issues during the meeting? Consider switching to phone audio to see if that provides a better experience.
Workshop themes
Diversity and Inclusion
Our workshop is a safe space for open discussion. We embrace and support diversity and inclusion within this workshop and at the UW Libraries. We hope to foster unique representations of ideas and experiences. This online workshop and its synchronous meeting sessions will remain welcoming and supportive to allow participants to thrive creatively as a researcher and online learner.
Access and accommodations
The UW Libraries makes a commitment to provide accessible accommodations for workshop participants. If you have already established accommodations with Disability Resources for Students (DRS), please communicate your approved accommodations to us (libstory@uw.edu) at your earliest convenience so we can discuss your needs in this course. If you have not yet established services through DRS, but have a temporary health condition or permanent disability that requires accommodations (conditions include but not limited to; mental health, attention-related, learning, vision, hearing, physical or health impacts), you are welcome to contact DRS at 206-543-8924 or uwdrs@uw.edu or disability.uw.edu. DRS offers resources and coordinates reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities and/or temporary health conditions. Reasonable accommodations are established through an interactive process between you, your instructor(s) and DRS. It is the policy and practice of the University of Washington to create inclusive and accessible learning environments consistent with federal and state law.
Open access
We are celebrating the spirit of open access by providing this workshop content outside of the traditional learning management system. As such, we are working using open-source tools (Audacity). This workshop will provide information on Creative Commons licensing, how to obtain free music to include in your production, and how you can contribute to the spirit of Open.
Digital safety and privacy
Working openly can also give way to more vulnerability of your digital safety, privacy, and identity. As you increase your propensity to share more about yourself and your work online, you become increasingly exposed to personal risk. In this workshop, we will talk about ways to safeguard yourself from some of these risks and how you can start incorporating privacy-enhancing tools and practices into your daily routine.
Preservation
Identifying proper metadata is an important aspect of preserving your podcast productions and helping to “future-proof” your content so that it can live well beyond the shelf life of your audio files. This workshop will touch on aspects of metadata, help you arrangement your files with naming conventions, think through some hosting options, and provide strategies for preserving your work for the long haul. Check out Preserve This Podcast for more on the importance of podcast preservation.