Sound Your Barbaric Yawp Across the Internet: How to Make a Podcast

InfoCamp is a two day unconference for the information community, started by several University of Washington Information School students in 2007 in order to open up the conference community to a broader audience.  The unconference itself is built by its participants - outside of the keynote and plenary speakers to kick off each day, the rest of the schedule is filled by participants who propose sessions on any topic related to information they desire, the only rule being that the session not be one that sells a product or service.  InfoCamps now take place in Berlin, Seattle, Berkeley, and are being planned for Boise and Portland.  (Take a look the InfoCamp Seattle 2010 schedule with notes and downloads to get a feel for its structure)

Intrigued by the format and hungry for presentation experience outside the classroom, I flew to Seattle to experience InfoCamp 2010 and presented a "soup to nuts" session on podcasting, based on what I had learned at the SLA 2009 Annual Meeting, my Instructional Technologies class at Pratt Institute, and my own experiences as The Knitting Librarian.  In spite of being sick, it was a wonderful, eye-opening experience, and I learned as much from my audience's feedback as I hope they learned from me.  Plans are underway to bring InfoCamp to New York City in 2011 at the earliest. 

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