Studio Scotch — Podcast

The Studio Scotch podcast project is the brainchild of two passionate Scotch College teachers, Mr Sam Sterrett and Mr Steve McLean. The aim of the project is to provide an innovative and increasingly popular platform for our community to share their views, ideas, successes and challenges, both new and old.

Courtesy of the Old Scotch Collegians, these pilot podcasts have been shot in the OSC Reading Room in Memorial Hall and made available to the community and broader public through major podcasting platforms Spotify , Apple , Google Podcasts and YouTube.

Released each fortnight, these podcasts were initially driven by a desire from these impressive teachers to share their passion for lifelong learning, philosophy, creativity and modernisation. Sam and Steve have invested many hours in the pilot series entitled, The Range Project, and have since received wide recognition from the education community.

The Range Project sets out to question the age-old 'folk wisdom' that we must specialise and specialise early, where the straight and narrow pathway is often considered the best way to achieve success. In this series they ask people from diverse backgrounds, who have taken a less conventional route in their career, to describe how diversification assisted them to see the world differently and what they believe contributed to this mindset. The success of this project ultimately led to the inception of Studio Scotch.

Although podcasts have been around since 2004, their popularity in modern learning is still relatively new. The time required to learn how to use the equipment, source willing and knowledgeable interviewees and edit during post-production, not to mention initial outlay costs of purchasing the equipment, is something that most schools can simply not afford. At Scotch College, we are fortunate to have the support of Scotch Parents who see the benefit of innovative ideas and have generously donated funds to equip the studio with state of the art recording gear.

Look out for the next release of The Range Project, featuring Emergency Specialist, Dr Dave McCutcheon (OSC 1996) and stay tuned for more from Studio Scotch. This promises to be an exciting new initiative.