We’re in a grove now! Taunton Public Library has just set up its new podcasting blog, The Way We Say It. Right now it’s really only an introduction and pretty bare bones but I have some ideas for dressing it up with some links.
Though we have podcasting ideas flying about nothing is nailed down yet. However, I wanted to get the new blog out there so our patrons could get use to it and see if they had any ideas they would like to share in a podcast. The talk right now revolves around the younger set, what with summer reading contests about to sprout, but I’d also like our adult patrons to give it a whirl too.
The two podcasting sessions we did last year were utterly enjoyable, both for the kids, and for me. I was the one in charge of the recording, and watching the enthusiasm on the faces of these young people as they read their own original works was priceless. Podcasting is a lot of bang for an amazingly little amount of work. Granted I didn’t do anything fancy with background music or fade ins and outs but Audacity, the free recording program, is relatively intuitive and doesn’t seem to have a high learning curve. I think even fancy stuff can be done with it easily. Plus I know there is always help out there I can SOS if I get in a jam.
At this stage everything is an experiment that we are learning from. One thing for sure, it’s pretty exciting and never boring!
