Podcasting @ThinqStudio
Project Summary
ThinqStudio, CU Denver’s digital pedagogy studio, has a professional audio recording space that most of campus didn’t know existed. I learned the studio myself while recording an audiobook there with 19 Mandela Washington Fellows, figuring out the equipment as I went, and learned along the way that the space sat underused for exactly that reason. Good gear helps no one who doesn’t know how to run it. So I built this self-paced Rise 360 course through The Learning Agency at CU Denver, so faculty and students could learn the studio’s equipment and software on their own schedule and walk in ready to record.
The course walks learners through producing podcast audio step by step, from the studio’s audio equipment to its recording software, with defined learning outcomes and custom quizzes to check understanding along the way. This project also put me on both sides of the design table: I was the instructional designer and, drawing on my background in audio production, the subject-matter expert who wrote the quiz content.
