Audio interview assignment presentation
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This document provides instructions for an audio interview assignment. Students are paired up and assigned to interview each other on a given topic. They are to record the interview using Audacity recording software and a microphone. They will then edit the recording, adding introductions and transitions. Finally, they will publish the edited interview to SoundCloud and embed it with commentary on their WordPress site. The rationale given is that this assignment will help students practice different literacies and modalities of communication. It also encourages understanding audio as a process of invention and revision.
Audio interview assignment presentation
- 1. Audio Interview Assignment Ryan Trauman Columbia College Chicago April 18, 2014
- 2. “Composition classrooms can provide a context not only for talking about different literacies, but also for practicing different literacies, learning to create texts that combine a range of modalities as communicative resources: exploring their affordances, the special capabilities they offer to authors; identifying what audiences expect of texts that deploy different modalities and how they respond to such texts.” (Selfe, “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning,” 643)
- 3. Examples • Andrew Interviewing Celeste • Jake Interviewing Marion • Gionna interviewing Mylah • Devonte interviewing Marcus • Eninna interviewing Sam
- 4. Rationale respond to disciplinary calls for a more capacious definition of writing cultivate students’ awareness, comfort, dexterity, and critical understanding of social online writing tools
- 5. Rationale encourage students to understand audio recording, editing, and circulation as invention and revision strategies, rather than merely as the “audio version” of a written text. foster a collaborative writing environment
- 7. Equip
- 8. Equip • Computer lab • Audacity • Microphone • Internet Connection
- 9. Prepare
- 10. Prepare • Touchstone Texts • Assignment Sequence • Collaborative Invention (Q’s & A’s) • Practice
- 11. Record
- 12. Record • One microphone per pair • One long take • Steve responsible for Jessica’s interview responses
- 13. Edit
- 14. Edit • Write & record intro, transitions • Audacity; multi-track; visual- spatial interface • Arrangement, Transition, Revision
- 15. Publish
- 16. Publish • Publish to SoundCloud • Share from SoundCloud • Embed with commentary on their individual WordPress site.
- 17. Reflect
- 18. Reflect • What did you find most satisfying about creating an audio text? • What did you find most challenging about creating and audio text? • If you could change anything from start to finish about the way you handled this process, what would it be?
- 19. Stuff to get you started…
- 20. Ryan Trauman • 502-759-4083 • rtrauman@colum.edu • @trauman (twitter) • ryantrauman (skype)
- 21. Resources • Audacity Download • Creative Commons Search • Soundjay • Internet Archive
- 22. Touchstones • This American Life • Radio Lab • Love + Radio • How Sound • Transom • PRX • RadioTopia • 99% Invisible • Bill Moyers • Studs Terkel
- 23. Thank you.
- 24. Questions?