Podcast - Benefits of Author Visits

In the upper-right-hand corner of the page is my podcast, "Benefits of a School Author Visit".

The music is Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 (Italian). My son, Robbie (two days after he had his 4 wisdom teeth extracted!), narrates the introduction. I thought that his voice would provide good contrast to the author's (Andrea Cheng). Andrea recorded her comments on gcast (www.gcast.com) - it's free and as easy as making a phone call (no other technology required).

Funny, when I tried to use Audacity a year ago, I wrung my hands and gave up. But now, this summer, after watching a few vodcasts on how to use Audacity, it seemed pretty easy. Certainly easy as compared to Dreamweaver, anyway. It is quite helpful to me to see someone using the software while they are describing what they are doing. Then when I go to do it myself, I know where the menus and buttons are.

“Benefits of a School Author Visit – An Author’s Perspective” is just one in a series of podcasts about the educational advantages of author visits in schools. Within this series, author visits are described from the viewpoints of a teacher and curriculum coordinator; a PTO parent volunteer; a student; and a visiting author. The goal of the podcasts is to describe the positive impact that author visits have had in our district in such a way as to encourage other school districts to try them.

I think if you scroll through my podcasts, you can hear some of the "raw" data from the other participants.

I plan to incorporate this into my website about How to Do a Meaningful Author Visit.