ポッドキャストプロジェクト

1. Purpose of the project:

By using Japanese language and other modalities (tone of your voice, body language, pictures, color, font etc.),

• You will have the chance to actively express your opinions to Japanese speaking audience.
• You will have the chance to communicate with the Japanese speaking audience.
• You will have the chance to reflect on the communication you have had and think about how you should think about your future communication.

2. Audience:

• The worldwide audience of Japanese-speakers and learners of Japanese including our classmates

3. Content:

• We will choose a topic and create video podcast or TV programs about it.

4. Steps:

1. Form groups (two or more people), give a name to your group, and brainstorm ideas.
2. Discuss what constitutes a good podcast or TV program. Everyone will decide on the evaluation categories that we will use to critique our own and each others’ podcasts.
3. Keeping #2 and your audience in mind, write proposal.
4. Revise your proposal based on your classmates’ comments.
5. Write scripts and submit the draft.
6. Make comments with each other based on the evaluation categories.
7. Correct and improve the scripts and then submit the final podcast movie. (Tentative Due March 3rd)
   
8. Think about what you should do to make the target audience watch your podcast movie and execute the action.
9. Communicate with the Japanese speaking audiences who have left comments on your podcast movie.
10. Conduct final evaluation

5. Objects of Evaluation

• Levels of effort you have put in for getting comments on your podcast movie.
• What you have attained as a result of such efforts described above.
• What you have done to appropriately maintain the communication between you and your audience during the commenting processes.
  
• Your Podcast

6. Evaluators

• Instructor
• Student himself/herself
• Classmates
• Teaching assistants