Behind the scenes

The education department of our museums service was lucky enough to receive two grants this spring from the Scottish Museums Council; one to institute our new Museums On The Move project, and one to begin a Podcasting project.  The former is now well under way, with equipment purchased, and community exhibitions already undertaken.  The latter is finally getting off the ground, though, as podcasting implicitly involves lots of computer hardware and software, it’s been slow-going.  We’re just about ready to start making our podcasts though, and over the next few weeks, we plan to visit schools and sign them up to help us create new audio content for our existing tours and to create new tours, and to work with a local day centre to record a series of audio memories of East Lothian that will appear on our site at regular intervals, ready for subscribers to download.

As a sort of proof-of-concept, and a chance to try out some of our new hardware and software, I’ve created an initial download (can you call it a podcast when there’s only one of them?  Lots of other sites seem to…) about my recent trip to the GEM Conference in Durham.  It’s only short, but it gave me the chance to use the software that came free with our mic and mixer (Audacity), and to use some of the copyright-free audio loops that also came free.

With luck, this will be the first of many.  It also appears on our podcasting page on the main site, where I’m currently setting up RSS and Atom feeds. 

Download East Lothian Museums podcast.

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