How to Create an LSAT Podcast

To accompany an LSAT course, or just to help out students who don't have the time or money to take a class, a podcast would be helpful in helping people review for the test and conquer the major logic concepts.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• microphone
• computer
• podcasting software
• web server

1. Outline your lessons, and separate them into sections that can become your podcast episodes. Go over strategies Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Logic Games, and the Writing section. Have episodes to motivate and give advice on how to be calm and concentrate during test day. Help them review.
2. Once you have prepared your podcast, gather your equipment, hook up your microphone to your computer, open up the software program that you are going to use to record. Some simple options are Audacity or GarageBand.
3. Once you're prepared, start recording. Speak clearly into the microphone and articulate.
4. After you're done, convert your recording into an mp3 file, if it doesn't do so automatically.
5. The next step is to edit your podcast and add features. Add chapters so listeners can jump back and forth in between sections if necessary. Add art and/or links so your listeners who can watch on the computer can follow along and click for more information.
6. After you're done, put the file onto a server, and then you can take the links and publish them onto your webpage.

Tips & Warnings

• You can create text slides using Keynote, and then upload them as artwork accompanying your particular podcast episode (or episode chapters). This is helpful for a lecture that can be organized into an outline with bullet points. You can use Keynote to make a slide with bullets, and when it's finished, drag it into the podcast track, and students can use this visual to follow along.
• Add some links to other drills and prep material.