My First Live Broadcast

Part 1:

If you are interested in listening to my first live broadcast about how to plan a preschool graduation ceremony then log onto http://www.blogtalkradio.com/planapreschoolgraduation at 3:30 pm pacific standard time on June 14, 2014.  Enjoy!

Part 2:

I chose to do my live broadcast through BlogTalkRadio.  This site allows its users to broadcast free of charge for a limited amount of uses.  It was very easy to set up a broadcast on this site.  Using the free site, a user is limited to time slots that are not considered prime time.  I chose 3:30 pm Pacific Standard time on a Saturday afternoon.  My broadcast had 7 listeners according to the information the site gave me.  I advertised the broadcast on my blog.  I also sent an email to all my classmates letting them know when I would be broadcasting.

Broadcasting live was a unique experience.  I thought I would be nervous, but when the time came for the live broadcast I discovered I was not.  Being able to give information to the world from my home was pretty amazing.  All I had to do, once I was registered, was to call into a phone number from my home phone and talk as if I was talking to someone on the phone.  The entire broadcast was recorded and is now archived for others to listen to. No one called in live as I was broadcasting.  This would have added a whole new element to the broadcast.

I have listened to podcast before but this was the first time I ever participated in the making of one.  Trying to develop a topic was difficult for me.  I don’t really feel as if I have enough unique knowledge of any one topic that anyone would really want to hear about.  Just last night, we had graduation at the preschool I work for.  Because this was so fresh in my mind and it was a successful event, I decided to discuss the steps to a successful ceremony.  I prewrote the steps because I knew I would not remember everything once the broadcast started.  Writing out the information was definitely helpful.

I don’t see myself doing this on a regular basis.   However, I can see the value of using it in the classroom.  I think it would be a unique option for students to broadcast information they have learned in the classroom.  In fact, I think this would be a great tool to use to assess student knowledge at the end of unit.  I can also see using this tool to provide information to my students that I might want them to listen to at a later date.  Whether I choose to broadcast again or not, it is great that this type of tool is easy to use and is available for free.