Podcast Tour?

This week is Spring break for Skidmore students. We still offer group information sessions for prospective students but we do not have student led tours this week (March 10th-March 15th). On that note, I notice a larger population of students visiting Skidmore during the weekend, when the admissions office is not necessarily open. This got me thinking about what we could do to service the self-guided tours better.

We are currently playing with the idea of having a podcast or mp3 audio file (available on the Skidmore web page) of a self-guided tour; visitors could visit buildings they were interested in and click play on their Ipod/mp3 player to listen to a student talk about that specific building. For those less technically inclined, we could also have a phone number to call (using a cell phone) with the same recorded description of the building.

We recorded audio for two of the buildings on campus, JKB Theater and Filene Music Hall. We selected two superstar seniors (Natasha Amendolara and Ryan Klein) to leave their legacy behind in the form of their recorded voice.
Natasha getting ready to record (my camera was accidentally in video mode)

Ryan on his way to class