Audio Interview Assignment

Ryan TraumanColumbia College Chicago

April 18, 2014

“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)

Examples• Andrew Interviewing Celest

e• Jake Interviewing Marion• Gionna interviewing Mylah• Devonte

interviewing Marcus• Eninna interviewing Sam

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

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

-Equip-Prepare-Record-Edit-Publish-Reflect

Equip

Equip• Computer lab• Audacity• Microphone• Internet

Connection

Prepare

Prepare• Touchstone Texts• Assignment Sequence• Collaborative Invention (Q’s & A’s)• Practice

Record

Record• One microphone per pair• One long take• Steve responsible for Jessica’s

interview responses

Edit

Edit• Write & record intro, transitions• Audacity; multi-track; visual-

spatial interface• Arrangement, Transition, Revision

Publish

Publish• Publish to SoundCloud• Share from SoundCloud• Embed with commentary on their

individual WordPress site.

Reflect

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?

Stuff to get you started…

Ryan Trauman• 502-759-4083• rtrauman@colum.edu• @trauman (twitter)• ryantrauman (skype)

Resources• Audacity Download• Creative Commons Search• Soundjay• Internet Archive

Touchstones• This American Life• Radio Lab• Love + Radio• How Sound• Transom

• PRX• RadioTopia• 99% Invisible• Bill Moyers• Studs Terkel

Thank you.

Questions?