Evaluation

Design Specification:

· MUST be published

· The topic must relate to adolescence

· Include pictures

· It has to relate to other teenagers

· It has to fulfill its purpose (I will ask the audience whether they feel encouraged and inspired by my podcast)

· It must be less than 15 min

· Audio format

· I should speak clear and loud so that the audience can understand what I am talking about

· Be casual and calm (relaxed)

· Include background music

ü It is published

ü Related to adolescence, since lots of teenagers experience lots of ups and downs

ü I think that it has fulfilled others (my testing results)

ü it was MORE than 20 min

ü Music

ü Calm

ü Audio format

ü Loud and clear

So overall I think that I got it quite good with the design specification and evaluated against our teachers design specification (published and recorded)

TEST:

Suugii Bat-Erdene: Do you think you will be able to listen to my podcast, if I continue doing one?

Did my podcast inspire you and somehow helped you?

Do you think my podcast was boring/ entertaining?

Do you think you would follow the tips I suggested during my podcast?

Temuulen Hartwig: yes it helped me very much

Temuulen Hartwig: becasue it was a good podcast at the right time

Temuulen Hartwig: and I leraned sth from it

Temuulen Hartwig: and I would definatly listen to your again when u would do one

Temuulen Hartwig: yes

Temuulen Hartwig: yes yes

Suugii Bat-Erdene: bayrlalaa =) did u like my podcast?

Temuulen Hartwig: yesssssssssssssssssss

Temuulen Hartwig: i told u

Temuulen Hartwig: yes I would nere listen to it

Suugii Bat-Erdene: okay thank you! ^^

Criterion A:

For Criterion A, we all had to research about podcast, and we all had to take in the consideration of why podcasts are used, for whom and how. I think that I did pretty good research on the overall topic itself, and gained new knowledge about how it works. While I was researching I found that iTunes was a very easy way to publish my podcast, and I decided to use iTunes; however because I didn’t read the steps very thorough and well, it made me to change from iTunes to podomatic.com. First I thought that I could just upload my podcast on iTunes and publish it, but after I was done with recording my podcast and right before publishing it, I read through the instructions again, and it said that iTunes itself should be available in the country I am in, and unfortunately there were none in Mongolia. So, because I didn’t read the instructions well at the very beginning, it made my plan to change and use podomatic.

In the future for improvements, I should thoroughly research the website in order to publish my podcast, and see what is required in order to publish it. I think that I could have researched more about different methods of publishing and websites that support podcast publishing, if I did so, I would have had more options than iTunes or podomatic to publish my podcast.

Criterion B:

I think that this Criterion was satisfactory, since I accomplished all the requirements that were listed on the paper. I wrote down detailed information about the topics I am interested in; so that it made easier for me to choose alter on. I am very interested in more psychological aspect than for example fashion or music. So, all my topics were related somehow to mentality of teenagers, such as how to bounce back or finding the right guy. I very detailed design could show me which one was the best and interesting. I chose ‘how to bounce back’, because no matter who you are we all go through the same process and pain (I specifically focused on teenagers, since they have lots of mood swings and feel emotionally very often). Through the designs, all I wanted to do was to somehow provide good and reliable information to those who are listening, and help them in any ways.

Criterion C:

Although my plan was to work over the winter break, due to my laziness I didn’t follow the plan at all; therefore I had to create another one. If I did work during the break, I would not have been in a hurry to finish my podcast in a week! My second plan was not that good as the first one, because it was not very detailed and specific. One of my weaknesses are time managing, so because of that I had only a week to do my podcast, which could lead into a poor quality podcast. Next time, I think that I should make my plan very detailed, but also first of all FOLLOW it without any procrastination.

Criterion D:

For this Criterion, I think that I did well, because taking a look at my test I think that I achieved my ‘goal’ of this project. First, I published my script on my blog so that my classmates could comment on it and suggest improvements, however they didn’t suggest any so I think my script was good enough? For recording the podcast, I read out the script in different ways, used different methods to add music in the background etc. Although one of the requirements was that I had to publish my test-podcast so that classmates could comment and suggest improvements, I did not publish any, however I recorded my podcast for about 18-20 times and I think that it was a better way than a podcast that was recorded only once or twice and published.

When I let my class mates listen to my podcast (it was already published), they said it was good and entertaining, however my voice sounded quite sad. First of all, I didn’t have the chance to change it because the podcast was already published, and secondly, even though I had the chance I would not change the tone of my voice, because for me if I was feeling upset and then listen to the podcast with such cheerful mood, it would have made me even more annoyed and angry. So, I thought that if I kept my voice low and calm, I would sound more serious and trustworthy, which would impact the listeners more.

One thing I would like to change in the future is to publish my test-podcast and let other comment on it. By doing that I could improve my podcast into a better one, since I think that others opinions and point of views are very important in order to improve something.