MIC partners with the awesome, not-for-profit digital school Digital Advantage to design a ‘how to podcast’ course for school kids and young adults, teaching them podcasting skills.

Digital Advantage approached MIC, as they were looking for solutions to deliver their signature digital skills and industry-led training online, during a time when many pupils were learning at home. Podcasting was the solution!

In addition to their photography, personal branding, website design, and videography courses, they wanted podcasting as an option in their suite of online digital skills training resources for schools and other kid-focused groups. This bunch of brilliant courses have all been designed and presented by professionals who are actually working in the creative industries (including us!) How cool is that?

So we designed an easy-to-understand, 8-part “how-to start a podcast workshop” – which is delivered via videoed modules. Meaning kids can be anywhere to learn and Digital Advantage can be anywhere to deliver them!

Accessibility to podcasting is very close to our heart, so we designed our podcast workshop so that the kids participating  wouldn’t need any fancy kit, simply a smartphone or tablet. Because we know that lots of children and schools don’t have access to specialised equipment, we were very keen to make it as accessible as possible.

With everything filmed, it was over to Digital Advantage to work their magic and edit our video modules together beautifully

Ezra Rushen, Digital Advantages Director of Production is really pleased with how our course has turned out and how it’s being received,

MIC Media’s podcast workshop videos are without a doubt the best training videos we’ve put together to deliver to our young people. They’ve set the bar a little higher for us now. MIC’s really good at communicating with young people.

He continues,

Their training is engaging, and it’s been a real pleasure to work with them. It’s been really profound actually and I don’t normally have to look hard for the teary moments, but everything that I’ve done so far with MIC’s podcast training has turned up some of the greatest surprises. I’ve seen a lot of young people feel very pleased with themselves in the podcast work they’ve produced

Are you interested in delivering these industry-led courses to the young people you work with? Digital Advantage are currently selling their digital skills suite (including ours) as packages to schools and groups. For a taste of the video modules and more information see their taster website here.

It’s been an absolute delight to work with this forward-thinking organisation that really gets the skills that young people need to sustain a career in our future workplaces. We can’t wait to hear what our Digital Advantage podcast students create!

Looking for podcast training for your members, team or group? Contact MIC here, let’s have a chat about your podcast workshop wants and ideas!