Tag: listening journal

I have been listening to podcasts since about 2005. It was a great way to pretend I was doing something instead of research and writing my dissertation. I would listen in to folk talking about literary analysis and it made me forget that I should be doing my own literary analysis. The podcasts I choose… Continue reading Listen-In Journal (1a)

I love to listen to podcasts and audio books when I drive. When I had a very long commute into Vancouver I went through a lot of them, when I moved to Calgary I had a very short commute so it was mostly when I was driving to other cities for work. Now that I… Continue reading Noah’s Listening Journal 1a

The first podcast I remember downloading and listening from a podcast app was Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD. This podcast is very nerdy in the best sense. Dr Campbell finds a book on neuroscience, soaks it up, then brings the author of that book on her show for an in-depth discussion. It’s very predictably… Continue reading my listening journal

I am interested in a monologue-style podcast and confirmed this by listening to the samples. I chose this style because I like to work in isolation. Also, I am creative, and want to have control over the creative aspect of the podcast. I am interested in learning how to edit sound, and in particular, what… Continue reading Listening Journal

I’m a very particular listener: as a result of an old brain injury, I have trouble tracking multiple sounds at once. So a podcast with too many sound effects or background music can be really tiring for me to follow, if I can follow it at all; sometimes it just blends into noise (for example,… Continue reading A listening journal