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Innovation in Practice Feature

The Finding Your Place College Podcast: A Case Study

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Pages 196-211 | Published online: 10 Aug 2021
 

Abstract

This article details the creation of the Finding Your Place Podcast. Key features of the podcast are presented, including the way it features student producers documenting their college experiences. The theoretical underpinnings of the podcast are explored along with key features of sound-only storytelling, making it an effective way to reach college students in general and first-year, first-generation college students in particular. Results from a survey of 94 listeners are also presented and analyzed.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank everyone at Minnesota State and Educational Innovations for their generous funding and support of The Finding Your Place Podcast. Special thanks to Stephen Kelly for his encouragement, support, and belief in the power of student voices.

Notes

1 Dreaming by Degrees was a physical installation and not fully reproduced online. A series of short animated films shown in the installation can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-0wL3Gr7y6gZp2IZSL-uvYaSkvQhPvY

2 To aid in the training we created a website for the student producers: https://davidengen.wixsite.com/collegeproject/home-1. The podcast was originally called The College Project. The name later changed to Finding Your Place.

3 Links to all episodes to the podcast can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/dreamingbydegrees/sets/finding-your-placecollege-podcast-series An instructor’s manual featuring classroom exercises, producer bios, and complete transcripts can be found here: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/fypeducatorguide/

4 For more information about learning to make broadcast quality audio recordings, see Transom.org

5 Were we to do this again, we would likely talk with the students explicitly about Yosso’s forms of cultural wealth. In hindsight, learning about these concepts may have been empowering to the student producers and perhaps led to even stronger insights in their recordings.

6 The podcast was not completed until near the start of the 2019 school year, so we were not able to promote it throughout our state system or beyond. We are hopeful a wider variety of schools will use the podcast in the future.

7 In this discussion of results we include the mean score from the sample of the 36 respondents who listened to 10 or more episodes as we believe these respondents are in a better position to fully assess the podcast; contains mean scores for the total sample of 94

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