For higher ed, the podcast medium allows for hosts/producers to extend knowledge to a campus community, academic discipline, and practitioners who want to engage deeply on specific topics, ideas, trends, and/or issues. To plant the podcast production seed, I thought I’d share a few podcast planning/development resources I’ve been curating from a recent workshop I facilitated, called Pod Save Higher Ed. Here is the podcast planning and brainstorm resource to be downloaded (as a PDF file) shared under a Creative Commons license: Pasquini, L. A. (2018). Pod Save Higher Ed: A Resource Guide To Inspire Storytelling & Podcast Making in Higher Education. figshare. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7228223.v1 More resources at https://techknowtools.com/2018/10/22/pod-save-highered/

1. Pod Save Higher Ed
@LauraPasquini ~ #PodSaveHigherEd
Innovative Teaching & Learning at a Distance
Workshop, University of Houston

2. A History of the Podcast
Internet Plumbing, RSS, and Audio Media
Image ℅ https://newmediaeurope.com/a-brief-history-of-podcasting

3. 2005: Podcasts Join iTunes
• Radio “on demand” hosted by
Apple
• Download episodes for free
• Subscriptions and access to a
central directory of podcasts
• Central search engine for
podcasts
• Files accessed via an iPod or
other MP3 players

4. RSS in Plain English
• Really Simple Syndication
• How to share web text files, articles, and information
• Distribute blog posts, news feeds, and more! (e.g. R.I.P.
Google Reader)
• Sharing audio, video, and other media files to create
subscriptions and more!
• Subscribe to podcast feeds through “pod catchers” that
collect and stream podcast episodes

5. The Podcast Comeback: Serial Season 1 (Fall 2014)

6. crooked.com

7. 2018: Apple Podcasts
• Still hosted on this central podcast open, democratic
directory accessible to all
• Feeds of podcasts and centrally shared to Apple and
MANY more platforms, apps, pod catchers, etc.

8. Catch a Pod(cast) Now!

9. Last Story You Heard…

10. What’s Good?:
Podcasts You Listen
•Why are you listening to
podcasts?
•What podcasts do you listen to
these days?
•How and/or where do you listen
to these podcasts?

14. But now there are
more great podcasts
being produced
within higher ed:
www.bit.ly/higheredpodcasts

15. Why Do You Want Podcast?

16. Pod-Storming: Who
Audience: Who is your target audience? Who will listen to
this podcast or might be interested in this pod?
• Students: undergraduate, graduate, professional program
• Colleagues: researchers, faculty, staff, etc.
• Institutional Stakeholders at Your Campus
• Your Discipline and/or Functional Area
• General Audience: Explainer or Story About Your Work

17. Women Who Wine in Education (#3Wedu):
www.3wedu.wordpress.com
Women + Higher Ed + Talks
Over Wine = #3Wedu

18. Pod-Ideation: Why & What
• What is your podcast about? What is the focus?
• What are the critical topics you want to share in higher ed?
• What are the potential names for your pod?
• What ideas, concepts, and information do you want to
share in your podcast?
• How will you know if your podcast is a success?

19. soundcloud.com/invinofab @InVinoFab #InVinoFab
In Wine, Story: In Vino Fabulum — To Bring MORE Voices to the Conversation

23. Pod-Storming: How
Style/Format: What type of podcast do you want to produce
or host? Here are a few formats to consider:
• The Interview => Most common
• The Solo Commentary
• The Co-Hosted Conversation
• The Panel - Commentary or Interview
• The Scripted Storytelling: Fiction or Non-Fiction

24. Pod-Storming: How
Length/Time: How long do you want your podcast episodes
to be? This might based on your podcast format/style:
• 10-15 minutes
• 15-30 minutes => Most common
• 30-60 minutes
• More than 60 minutes
22 minutes is the average US commute.

25. Pod-Storming: How
Frequency of Distribution: How often do you want to publish
your episodes
• Daily
• 2 episodes a week
• 1 episode a week => most common
• 1 episode every other week
• 1 episode a month

26. The Pod Elevator Pitch
• What is your podcast about?
• Why should someone listen?
• What will your listeners learn or get out of your podcast?
• How frequently will you be distributing episodes?
• BONUS: Intro & Outro Music; Theme music interludes

27. Must Have = Artwork
soundcloud.com/breakdrink @BreakDrink
3000 x 3000 pixels
72 dpi
PNG file

28. Audio Tools of the Trade

29. Inside the Audio Studio

30. Lights, Camera, Action!

31. Our Actual Audio Studios

32. Our Actual Audio Studios

34. Audio Software to Record

35. Mobile
Studio
Tools
for
Quality
Audio
Recording

36. Tech Recording & Editing

37. The Higher Ed Podcast Project
higheredpodcasts.wordpress.com

38. bit.ly/behindthepodcast

39. #PodSaveHigherEd
Resources
bit.ly/podsavehighered

42. #PodSaveHigherEd
Go Create,
Make, & Share
Your Podcast
Story!
http://bit.ly/podsavehighered
http://bit.ly/behindthepodcast
http://bit.ly/higheredpodcasts