ncra/anrec
Podcast school

The NCRA/ANREC is thrilled to announce that our on-demand courses of the podcast school are now available! Whether you’re looking to hone your podcasting skills or just starting out, our comprehensive courses are designed to guide you every step of the way.

The Podcast School brought to you by the NCRA/ANREC brings together over many years of podcasting experience from our team of Podcast Presenters.

We draw expertise from the community broadcast sector and others to find you presenters who have broadcast experience and a background in training.

We are confident that our curated 10 course semester will give podcasters of all experience levels great value from the information provided.

You can visit On-Demand Courses above and see the the descriptions of the sessions, you can also scroll down and see the bio from all of our presenters,,.

COURSES BREAKDOWN

Different types of podcasts
Presenter: Phil Shirakawa

What type of podcast is right for me?
In this course NCRA Award Winning Host/Producer Phil Shirakawa walks you through the many different styles of podcast. He explains the pluses and minuses of many of the popular ways to podcast, helping to aid in your selection of the type of show you will be making.

MAKING A PODCAST ON A BUDGET Presenter: MAX COLLINS

Since the grassroots beginning of podcasting, on-demand radio has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry with new businesses and investors getting involved every day. Despite all of the money being thrown at this new(ish) type of media, one can still start and maintain a podcast for little to no money invested. But if you want to invest a little bit of money in your podcast, where should you start? In this course, the instructor will take you through the essentials needed to start a podcast.

Accessibility in Podcasting
Presenter: Jess Schmidt

This session will touch on the importance of transcripts, and how to get the best bang for your buck in generating them. We’ll also discuss why it’s a creator’s responsibility to make sure that their work is as widely available as possible, and look at some options and proof cases of why transcripts aren’t just the right thing to do – they’re also an awesome marketing tool that are as important to your show’s packaging as your cover art, publishing copy, and all the other assets that help make your show unique.

AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR PODCASTERS PRESENTER: PAMELA HAASEN

Whether you are new to podcasting or you’ve been at it for years, you know that monetizing and making money podcasting is tricky. There are many avenues to take, but finding the right one for you can be daunting. Pam Haasen is hosting Available Funds for Podcasterst to help you pitch your show as a viable project, tips to make your grant application stand out, as well as what roles and items to include in your budget and description.

Sound Like A Pro: Tech SetUp
Presenter: Phil Shirakawa

In this seminar you will learn how to get the most out of yourself and your recording equipment, to assist in making your show sound it’s best. From speech techniques, physical placement of announcer(s), microphones and recording spaces to professional editing techniques, you will be able to increase the technical quality of your show, making it easier for your listeners to enjoy. Hosted by NCRA Award Winning Programmer Phil Shirakawa.

Promoting Your Podcast on Social Media
Presenter: Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque

You have created your podcast episode – it has stellar audio, a tight script that tells a wonderful story. But how do you get people to listen to it? How do you attract audiences and maintain those numbers? This class will tell you how to create your marketing strategies, what tactics to deploy, how to measure your marketing efforts, and how to create and leverage your web presence and social media to get audiences.

DEFINING THE AIM OF YOUR PODCAST / WEBPAGE FOR PODCASTS PRESENTER: PAMELA HAASEN

This session outlines exercises for a podcaster of ANY level to create the reason for your podcast and the methods you’ll use to achieve that result. This is a step most often skipped by podcasters but to accomplish it means saving a lot of work for yourself in the future. How to make a trailer is simply the how, why, what, and who of a teaser/trailer for your podcast (to get people excited, to release on social media, to apply for money, etc).

What’s your story? Researching and script-writing your podcast
pRESENTER: Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque

Learn how to create a well-researched tightly scripted podcast episode. How do you conduct background research for your story? What are some of the writing techniques you use to script your story? This class will tell you how to conduct airtight background research, carry out revealing interviews, and combine these with stellar writing techniques to script your podcast episodes.

How to make the most of AI in your podcast
Presenter: Jess Schmidt

This session will go over some free and paid AI tools that are useful for podcasters, and will discuss the potential and limitations of this new cutting-edge and buzzworthy tech. In particular, we’ll go over the use cases for ChatGPT, Descript, etc. and how you can use AI to help with things like audio editing, transcription, images, and writing show notes and media assets.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN LAUNCHING YOUR NEW PODCAST PRESENTER: LINDSAY CURTIS

This session will start with suggestions for preparing to hit launch on your new podcast as well as tips on the first few days out in the world. We will then touch on realistic expectations about downloads, followers and feedback and share how to get through the first few months of podcasting without experience discouragement or podfade. Finally we will discuss how to respond to listener feedback and whether or not tweaking is needed.

PODCAST PRESENTERS

Jess Schmidt (she/her) is a podcast producer/consultant and accessibility advocate based in Calgary, AB. She works on a number of branded and indie podcasts across an array of genres, and is also a closed captioner & transcriptionist for live and post-production media. Visit her website at jessdoespodcasting.com.
PAMELA HAASEN – Pamela Haasen works as the News Producer and hosts a weekly radio show called I Digress for CICK Smithers Community Radio in Northern BC. Previously she worked as the Program Director for CHRW in London, Ontario.Pamela is a podcaster and has created and released 3 short podcast series and is working on the next 2 coming out this spring and fall of 2021. You can check out her work at haasenpod.com.
MAX COLLINS – Max Collins (any pronouns) is an award-winning podcast producer born in Calgary, AB. Having started their audio career at the University of Victoria campus station, CFUV 101.9 FM, they know the ins and outs of making a podcast with a small (or nonexistent) budget. Now specializing in sound design for scripted fiction and other high-production value mediums, Max has worked on projects for the CBC, Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, Audioboom, and more. Max’s work has been written about in such publications as Vulture, IndieWire, and SAD Magazine. They currently live in Vancouver, BC, with their girlfriend and their very needy but loveable cat.
After graduating from the Broadcasting Program at Algonquin College in 2011, Phil began producing his NCRA Award winning music show The Album Drop on CHUO 89.1 in Ottawa. (Winning in Music Programming for 2016, Honorable mentions in 2018 & 2019) He has also worked as a talk show producer for Bell Media Ottawa.
ANIRUDDHO CHOKROBORTY-HOQUE – Aniruddho has migrated from 15 years of conducting research to a lifetime of writing its stories. He loves to break apart research from science and technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, find the SO WHAT WHO CARES of complex, technical, cutting-edge work, and share it with audiences through Word and Sound. For the past six years, his stories, press-releases, podcasts & social media content have built bridges between research institutions and policy-makers, funding agencies, and the general public. Check out www.researchstoryteller.com for his podcasts (and writing).His latest, Espresso Knowledge (Twitter: @espressoknow) delivers research news in the time it takes him to make an espresso shot – quick, on the go!https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/espresso-knowledge/id1527684922
Lindsay Curtis (she/her) is an experienced freelance podcast editor, producer and digital marketer from Vancouver BC. She manages a number of indie podcasts and is the co-host of Charts & Hearts. She is also the co-founder of Whale Tales, a living library of cetacean stories and co-hosts and produces The Whale Tales Podcast.