Pray for the USA Podcast BlogPost

By: Kiyaan M 05/15/2020

Driving Question: How has the world handled the COVID-19 Pandemic? What are the consequences of those actions?

Introduction

What a socially distant journey my classmates and I have been through during COVID-19. This has been our very first successful project through distance learning. During the month of April, my classmates and I discovered and studied the topic of the Coronavirus and how countries worldwide are handling the spread of the virus. 

Like, how all our projects start, my classmates and I were individually assigned to choose a country that we find interesting and how they are handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of our podcast lengths had to match 7-10 minutes just like the “Peoples Podcast”, which is somewhere in my blog if you’re reading this.

Topics & Tasks

For this podcast I chose the USA as my country because I am interested in how the government and president Donald Trump are handling the coronavirus. 

Rather than choosing my own country, Canada, I chose the USA. I believe that President Trump will eventually give in to the situation to save the citizens of America, rather than focus on the economy. 

As always, before beginning our topic research my class and I were required to listen to a few podcasts that were already talking about the Coronavirus. Soon after we were required to learn more information about COVID-19 before moving to our own podcast. 

Moving Forwards

As my class and I moved forward in the creation of our podcasts after learning the importance of government, we were prompted by our teacher to start by April 15 2020 and complete our research by April 24 2020.

Like all my other podcasts I had to begin creating and recording a script, only this time I didn’t have to wait for extra information from a partner. This is because, like I said above this project is individually based.

Finally towards the end of this project, my final task was to record and re-record myself speaking into the microphone.

Overall

Overall I believe this was a very successful project, mainly because I didn’t have to research as much as I had hoped. The reason for this is mainly because I simply misunderstood the timeline which is supposed to be 7-10 minutes rather than 20 minutes, which probably no one would listen to.

If you would like to check out the podcast, please click on the second link below & if you would like to hear more podcasts or music please keep me posted and follow my Soundcloud account at: 

Link #1: https://soundcloud.com/kiyaan-merali 

Link #2: https://soundcloud.com/kiyaan-merali/covid-19-in-the-usa-podcast/s-GTX2MLdGRwX