For the second consecutive year I have had the pleasure and privilege of taking podcasting
to my daughters' school thanks to the cultural week and it has been a
real honor. Believe me, we welcome you across the microphone. On the
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two three weeks ago at my daughters' school Let me introduce myself. I
am Jorge Marín, head of EOVE, producer and I am a complete fan
of podcasting and creation. Sonora said a couple of weeks ago a very nice,
very beautiful experience, actually, taking podcasting to my daughters' school.
Every week, each week, they celebrate a week called the Cultural Week,
which I also lived as a child, where numerous activities are carried out for
all the resources that are taught there. And well, in these activities there
are sports activities, there are play activities and there are meetings with some of
the grandparents that each of the grandchildren that go to this school. Well,
then, they can invite their grandparents to know what their classes are like,
to participate in one of these activities. And there is also another branch,
so to speak, of the cultural week dedicated to communication, to the press,
to the field of definitive literature, because to all the oral expression of
its students. And last year, if you remember, I brought a chapter
because we made a podcast series with the students, my eldest daughter' s
classmates, where they performed well every class, every letter of their course,
made a different podcast. Some were about animals, others about sports, others
about already. I don' t remember exactly the four, but well,
four different podcasts. Each class did it in a different way, with special
connections, with live music. Well it was the rather curious truth to realize
and on this occasion, this year, what the School Council, the coordinator
of the Cultural Week, Fernando, if you are listening to me, decided
to connect this facet of inviting grandparents to visit the school of grandchildren with the
recording of podcast and what is better way to ask grandparents through podcast what their
education was like when they were young, how they were young, how they
connected with their school, with their educators, how was life when they were
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the description of this chapter so that you can subscribe comfortably said that the coordinator
of the cultural weeks had good to coordinate these encounters with the grandparents. At
my daughters' school they invited a total of up to four grandparents per class,
approximately in classes of twenty twenty- eight students, because you can imagine
the madness that it is to control twenty- six students between nine and ten
years of age when some of their grandparents are visiting them. When it starts
this cultural week, when it comes to an activity let' s say more
playful, they slip a little of the classes and do something special. Last
year, as I arrived with the microphones and the speakers and everything, and
for them it was quite an experience to record the podcast that they had been
preparing for a whole week and on this occasion, what they had had to
prepare for a few days were questions addressed to these grandparents who came to visit
them and the classes, although the format was the same in the four classes
that they performed it hears, since each one prepares a question throughout the class.
Or forgiveness in common. Throughout the class we prepare questions and then we
' re going to ask the grandparents who come to visit, because if I
' m honest with you, each of the classes did it in a totally
different way. Some had an order, others had assigned questions, others asked
questions perhaps not at random, they did not have them prepared, but they
were passing the microphone from one to the other. Of course, grandparents also
intervened in completely different ways, as some were more carried away by spontaneity,
others perhaps gave way to each other. There was more complicity among them,
others perhaps because they were less, as they were easier to answer questions.
It is also true that there was a certain problem for this, already at
the technical level, a certain problem for them to be heard well between grandparents
and grandchildren, because there are times that either, some did not approach correctly
the microphone, others maybe, even had some hearing problem. Grandparents, above
all and or did not understand well what the child embarrassedly wanted to say to
them good. The truth is that they were recordings, that they had some
other difficulty, but nothing that could not be fixed in edition I also liked
very much because in one of the classes there is some student with hearing problems
and there was a device that the grandparents had to put near them, near
the table, so that those people, those children, could listen to them
correctly. That was in addition to the microphones I had put on them and
also, considering, that the children themselves were also asking them questions. And
a technical challenge. The truth is that it was a technical challenge on my
part, because listen is not the typical environment where you record a usual podcast,
just as it happens to me with the spont niy, for example,
when I will cover another event that you do not know very well what you
will find until you are there on the ground but if we put in the
equation children on one side and grandparents on the other, because it is something
curious and the most beautiful of all we go. I really liked this.
On the one hand, it was the concern that the students showed asking questions,
because at first they were all a little cut, except the grandchildren who
were talking to their grandparents, who were eager to ask, but all,
the rest of the students, at first, because they were more cut,
as the grandparents also went loose. The children were asking, then, the
first thing that came to their mind. And in the end, as you
can imagine, because the questions and imagination of the children overflows and ends up
becoming, therefore, a delight. A delight for the curiosity shown by some
and for the affection shown by others, the grandparents, you can imagine what
it was like to be the protagonists of these recordings, although for them,
even for me, in the end the podcast didn' t matter, because
the important thing was that connection, grandparents and children, of that curiosity that
showed some and that desire to tell their experiences that others had, and it
was an incredible feeling to all classes. I ended up telling them because at
first it seemed like the questions like it wasn' t going to give time,
it wasn' t going to be enough or it was going to be
short of time, something very similar to when you do a live podcast that
you don' t know how well you' re doing in time. There
are times that it is very fast, sometimes you go very slow and in
this case, in each and every one of the classes. All the children
were eager to ask more questions and, logically, the grandparents also told their
own experiences and anecdotes about when they were young. And what I recommended to
all students is that all these questions be kept for them to be asked no
longer only to their grandparents, no longer only to their older uncles or anyone
close to them is an older person, to have conversations with them, to
chat with them, to have that curiosity. Because I' m sure and
the teachers were also right, even the grandparents themselves, that those grandparents are
eager, eager to chat with their grandchildren to tell them those stories that they
have told to us all when we were little and that many times, because
in the rush of the day, because perhaps our grandfather has told us ten,
fifteen, twenty times, or our uncle, our oldest, closest person,
has told us so many times that we don' t pay attention.
However, when circumstances like these days occur, these four hours of recording,
which some want to hear and others want to tell, that connection is wonderful.
The truth I enjoyed. I enjoyed the four recordings that were made there
a lot and I already say that in the end the podcast, the recording
was a simple excuse and they want to carry false microphones, not to carry
them or connected or anything, planting them there to the grandparents so that the
grandchildren only listen to them and also the grandchildren, well, the students have
their own little bit of curiosity about what these older people are telling them,
because there is no need for someone to come to put some microphones there.
It is not necessary, simply because you have to enjoy that special moment that
in this case, because it is the cultural week and it is a special
visit that they make to their school. What happens is that on this occasion,
well, it was recorded to participate in the contest of school podcast organized
by Radio and Nacional de España or Forgive Radio Televisión española. The truth is
that I edit it later to fix it, because you can imagine a wireless
microphone passing through the hands of twenty- five girls for four, good of
almost a hundred boys, because the noises that were sneaking in. Okay.
We had to do a little cleaning there about the saying, so that there
was something thin. But again listening to all the recordings come on. It
made me happy. The truth is that I hope and the school will publish
the whole recordings, or at least pass them on to the students and grandparents
so that they will have them as a nice memory, because for me it
was only my daughter visiting, but there was neither my mother, nor my
father nor my in- laws. With the grandparents' part. It was
quite an experience for the grandchildren who were visited by their grandparents. I think
it would be a nice memory and a nice detail and sure that the grandparents
also had very good that very good, one more experience, a connection between
creators and listeners of podcasts that can make live and live. And of the
same thing, of this same example, I have spoken to you in the
first edition of my news letter. Now that you can subscribe via eb is
Barra news Letter. And in this first edition I wanted to comment precisely this
that podcasting is going to connect people, in this case grandparents with grandchildren or
well, grandparents with students. But I' ve put several more examples of
friends gathering around a podcast to get to know new communities, communities that bring
in a podcast just to get the chance to connect people. And the truth
that made me reflect to prepare that newslette, I had nothing concrete planned.
I didn' t want to start promoting services or any of this podcast.
And little by little ideas began to emerge in my head and when I looked
back and saw that during the month of March I had made three very different
live events, in which in all events people had been connected thanks to this
podcasting. I saw it clearly I said. This is what I have to
comment on in the news letter, because I think it is the most valuable
thing I have learned, at least during the month of March, and that
is what I want to transmit to news letter. Everything I learn thanks to
podcasting, because I try to transmit it in this case in writing. Thank
you for continuing there, as every very good day and now I say goodbye,
and as every day I return to that place where you are, right
now, across the microphone,