FEATURED AUTHOR SESSION:
Making Great Podcasts
with Jonathan Finkelstein
This session explores a set of practical techniques for producing high-quality, highly engaging podcasts. From establishing a brand and voice within your learning environment, developing a sustainable format, choosing the right tools, to creating an active community of listeners who can’t ignore your calls to action, this session offers concrete approaches for bringing each of the elements of a great podcast together. We’ll also look at a range of podcasts for inspiration— and for what to avoid. What will emerge is a set of skills and principles to transform the science of making audio and video files into the art of producing podcasts that your learners will not forget.
About the Facilitator:
Jonathan Finkelstein is founder and Executive Producer of LearningTimes™ and President of The LearningTimes Network. He works closely with educational institutions, libraries, museums and other organizations to grow and maintain online learning communities and to foster human interaction, professional development and learning online. His book, Learning in Real Time (Jossey-Bass), translates well over a decade of experience facilitating real-time online learning into a practical resource guide for anyone facilitating or teaching online. Finkelstein also authored the chapter on live online outreach in The Digital Museum: A Think Guide, published by the American Association of Museums. Jonathan is the host of the Real Time Minute, a podcast series about online collaboration, and the moderator and producer of many live webcasts, online conferences and 3-D virtual world events for education professionals. Finkelstein, the son of two New York City public school teachers, is a Certified Synchronous Training Professional (CSTP) and received his AB degree with honors from Harvard University.
