Narratives of the past and the power of communication

an account of experience on podcast production and teacher training in History

Abstract

This text reports the experienceof podcasts produced by a professor and students of a History course who are part of the Stadium: Sport History and Leisure History Study Group. The goal is to provide future teachers with the possibility of creating and disseminating content within technology of information and communication about the research carried out by members of the group or other researchers in the same area. It is intended to help in the process of constructing past narratives anchored in methodological procedures and critical analysis of sources in content with simplified language and disclosed in a simple, cheap and accessible way. The platform chosen was the podcast, recorded and edited in the university radio studios and allocated in sites that make available the audio in the most diverse players connected to the internet. The results obtained were the increase of the students' involvement with the activities of the study group, the increase of the number of participants, the invitation of the radio to enter regular programming and the possibility of putting the future students in contact with the production of content coming of historical research in accessible language with the intention of making it available on digital platforms.