The Teaching Space

Episode 7 of The Teaching Space Podcast investigates Medium, the popular blogging and social media tool. Podcast Episode 7 Transcript Welcome to episode 7 of The Teaching Space Podcast. Before, we start, if you can hear any weird crunching sounds in the background, I'm afraid that's my dog. She's joining me for recording today. In this episode, I am going to introduce you to an exciting social media platform from which I get a fantastic wealth of content related to teaching and training. That platform is Medium. About Medium So let me tell you a bit about Medium. It was created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams in 2012. The idea behind it was that people would be allowed to share more in-depth articles than the 140 characters they shared on Twitter (which is, of course, now a lot longer than that, but at the time it was a hundred and forty characters). According to Medium's website: "Medium taps into the brains of the world's most insightful writers, thinkers and storytellers, to bring you the smartest take