3. Interview Techniques
Prepare “sound bites”
“I have been blogging for over ten years”
Mirror your Interviewer
Match your interviewer‟s mannerisms, speed of speech
Record a pre-interview practise (use audioboo!)
Record your reply to expected questions. Analyse your
response. Would you hire you?
There is no “I” in team
Use the word “we”: “At the University we created a new app
that can identify the best cows for succulent steak. My role
was to taste-test…”
4. Vocal Variety
Monotonous speaking is BORING!
Combine your pitch, tone, volume and rate for an
expressive and energised voice
Pitch: high and low, low = more confidence
Tone: *how* we say something, our emotion & energy
Volume: loud or quiet
Rate:
howquicklydoyouspeakcaneveryoneunderstandyou
5. Speaking Rate
Find a partner
Read the following paragraph to become familiar with
it (3 min.)
Read the paragraph out loud to your partner who will
time you
How far did you get in ONE minute?
See the number in brackets closest to where you
finished, that is your speech rate
Tweet @JessL your speech rate
6. The Rainbow Passage, a public domain text, can be found on page 127 of the 2nd edition of Grant Fairbanks' Voice and Articulation
Drillbook. New York: Harper & Row.
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism
and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into
many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch,
with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the
horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one
end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for
something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the
pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Throughout the centuries
people have explained the rainbow in various ways. Some have
accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation. To the
Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal
floods. The Greeks used (140) to imagine that it was a sign from
the gods to foretell (150) war or heavy rain. (154) The Norsemen
considered the rainbow as (160) a bridge over which the gods
passed from earth to their home in the sky. (175)
7. What is it?
A podcast is a collection of digital
audio files distributed over the „net.
Often RSS feeds are used for
playback on iphones, ipods, mp3
players & other portable devices
8. Podcast
Podcast = a
portmanteau of
“Pod” (Portable on
Demand) and
“broadcast”
Image from thingsblacknwhite.blogspot.com
10. Difference?
A podcast is different from other digital formats because it can be
downloaded automatically by software that reads RSS or Atom (etc.) feeds
11. Aggregators
Keep track of
all your rss or
other
syndication
feeds
Juice (was
iPodder),
AudioShell,
Ziepod,
gPodder,
PodcastAlley,
podnova
12. RSS
Really Simple Syndication
A type of web feed that frequently updates with new
content
RSS in Plain English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
14. Why Podcast?
Course content dissemination
Interview practise (labs this week!)
Field recording
Study support
File storage & transfer
Show that you‟re an expert in your field
Tweet me a reason why you might podcast?
15. How To
Hardware: Smartphone, Laptop (with mic.), Computer
(with mic.)
Record your audio online (with audioboo) or offline
and then upload (audacity)
Add your podcast to your own blog, website or tweet a
link to it (if using a hosting service like audioboo)
16. Audioboo
“It's fantastic for many things.
Impromptu interviews that you can put on your
website, ambience that just sound wonderful, music
you've made yourself, a record of your children
growing up or even a full blown radio show. You can
use it for reporting, for story-telling, educational use or
quick tips.
Think of it as your audio digital archive, your web
connected dictaphone or simply a great way to let
your friends know what you're up to.”
(from audioboo)
17. Register
You can boo anonymously from the mobile app but it's
much more powerful with an account.
Simply sign up and enter your email and audioboo will
immediately send you a link to choose an account
name and password.
19. Record!
Download the app onto your mobile or use the record button on the
front page. This allows you to do everything the app does but also
adds in the ability to upload audio recorded on other devices.. Then
you can go ahead and add a title, some tags, a photo and pick a
location it was recorded in. There's a 3 minute limit on recordings for
the free plan.
20. Perhaps there are some news anchors who use audioboo or maybe a fashion designer
or nutritionist that you‟re interested in.
21. Search
“food”
BBC Radio 4 documentary on the cheapest BUT most nutritious lunch you can have.
John Edwards from the Royal Society of Chemistry reveals that a toast sandwich is the
answer!
7.5 Pence (about 10 cents!)
http://audioboo.fm/boos/547663-toast-sandwich-the-best-budget-bite
22. Link to Social Networks
You can link your audioboo account to your twitter and facebook accounts so
that your followers and friends can keep up with all your latest “boos”
